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		anyg 33 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Show HN: Dayflow – A git log for your day Couldn't we get a low-res version of this info by tracking the active window using a cli tool? For linux, there are several options. Not sure about Mac. Another approach is to run OCR on 1FPS screenshots. Everything runs locally without draining the battery like an LLM would.

jerryliu12 33 days ago [–]

You definitely could! I think it would just be harder to get good semantic understanding of what you did during a segment of time without LLMs.

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