Imagine there’s a tool that searches anything you’ve done on screen; imagine if it can search any article you’ve read, any insight from your google searches, any tweet you come across or any book you’ve read?
Not only that but it can also search anything you have written, or said in an online meeting or voice message. So not only text on screen, but also *spoken* text!
To me, few months ago, that’d have been classified as sci-fi.
But now it’s possible with this tool:
Let me talk a bit about how this is the future.
This approach adds a layer between two search spaces that vary in size, big time:
- The internet → Google Search
- Your notes → Knowledge base search
Thing is we are only used to take notes when we come across anything new in order to make it easier for our future selves to search information that we have already processed in the past. With this, not only will you not be obliged to take notes of all your meetings and learnings, but you basically have a third intermediate layer that enables you to search ANY information you’ve processed without necessarily absorbing it or writing it down.
A massive leap for those who seek autonomy in their workflows.
Now your possible search spaces for information become:
A totally new computation dimension (time) that functions as a big step towards a bigger goal:
“Remembering each & everything by jumping across different points of time”.
Watch this, I am searching my screen for occurrences of “Alan Turing”, here’s what it got me:
[Technical] It is able to do this by way of doing active OCR (Optical Character Recognition) for your screen frames, ignoring inactive/white spaces + transcribing your captured audio in real-time & running some algorithm that makes use of M1 chips for optimized compression – They provide settings where you can disable screen/microphone recording for certain apps & they claim a usage of 14GB per month. Your recordings do not leave your local machine.
Not a bad deal for me.
I’m also almost certain there will come a time when this will be possible for iPhones.
Exciting times!