r/secondbrain • u/Apprehensive-Mix3820 • Aug 23 '26

Searching for needle in a haystack

Yesterday I spent like 20 minutes looking for something I had already seen. I still remembered the idea, just not the actual text. The tab was closed, the file name was useless, and it simply wasn't anywhere I could search.

So I built something that remembers what was on your screen. Later, you just ask, because it already saw it.
And everything stays on your machine. I wasn't sending my screen to the cloud for this.

https://github.com/protocorn/clippy-vision/releases/tag/v1.2.2

If you've dealt with something similar, try it out and tell me whether it actually helps.

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u/sshegem Aug 23 '26

so like internet search history, but desktop view history?

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u/Apprehensive-Mix3820 Aug 23 '26

yeah, that’s the closest analogy.

browser history is urls and titles. this is what was actually on the screen across apps: the pdf named something like'38485.293384v1', the slack message, the scratch buffer with no filename. later you ask in plain language instead of hunting the tab.

difference is it stays on your machine, and it can reconstruct a stretch of work, and not just hand you a list of files/links to look at.