The Rewind replacement question is more complicated than it looked at first.
Rewind was quietly doing two separate things. Passive capture, so it caught things before you knew you'd need them. And retrieval, so you could surface any of it later. When it died both problems needed separate answers and the tools that exist are mostly built for one or the other.
Mem.ai I used for a few months. Good at connecting notes you deliberately put in. Doesn't see the screen, doesn't capture ambient context. Smart memory for intentional inputs.
Screenpipe for passive capture. Self-hosted, genuinely local, search works. The retrieval is functional but acting on what you find is still manual. It's a very good archive.
Invoko for on-demand context and execution. Reads current screen, runs cross-app tasks. Fast for what's visible. Can't go backwards.
Fabric I tried more recently. Ingests from a lot of sources and makes connections across them. Interesting approach to the retrieval problem. Doesn't fully replace the ambient capture.
What I don't have: something that catches things passively and makes them easy to act on. Screenpipe gets you halfway. The second half is still a gap. What are people using?
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