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The weekend hack: take screenshots of my screen so I remember what I did

4 pointsby mtayseerabout 12 years ago
Sometimes I find it hard to remember what I did during the day, so I made this small app to take screenshots of my desktop every minute. It was also a nice opportunity to learn PyQt.<p>If you have comments about the app (or my code), it will be great :)<p>https://github.com/mtayseer/eidetic

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shailabout 12 years ago
Interesting idea. It reminds me of a project that was presented by someone in a research lab in Paris which was an full blown version of your idea.<p>That project took screenshots every few units of time (or a full movie kind recording). Then it did some optimization in storing it (since the is very little chance of a lot of difference between consecutive images). Then it did image to text on those images and made it searchable.<p>Interesting idea and if you can make it searchable, it will be amazing.