List of random ideas that I am hoping to one day implement (or for someone to take them from me and make them a reality)
Source: https://x.com/VictorTaelin/status/1934328852261814721 I’ve lost countless hours of my live because I couldn’t “go back” to something I wrote or heard in the past. For example:
“where is that file where I implemented FFT with λ-encodings…?”
or even
“what was that product that was like a super dental floss?”
I have 1000’s of partial experiments scattered all around several directories. Not every experiment or thought is worth making a repository or post for. So, going back to that exact thing that’s on my mind is, sometimes, really hard.
I’ve now learned there was a product called “Rewind” that attempts to solve that exact problem. But, being a closed source startup, nobody knows for how long it’ll stay afloat, and this is a long-term project.
So, I think I might spend a day or two building that thing in Rust. Take a screenshot of your computer every minute or so, heavily compress, OCR it, build a vector db or something, and then let you semantically search for anything from your past… basically the ultimate human memory augmenter.
Business model for the open-source version (if any): Check writeWithHarper (https://writewithharper.com/)