GitHub - xaitax/TotalRecall: This tool extracts and displays data from the Recall feature in Windows 11, providing an easy way to access information about your PC's activity snapshots.
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This tool extracts and displays data from the Recall feature in Windows 11, providing an easy way to access information about your PC's activity snapshots. - xaitax/TotalRecall

this rootless Python script rips Windows Recall’s screenshots and SQLite database of OCRed text and allows you to search them.

  • HelloHotel@lemm.eeEnglish
    81·
    6 months ago

    It feels like this was intended for buisnesses to monitor for phrases on your screen like “coolmath games unblocked free”

    or to extract and upload a summary of what happened every second of every day to the server defined in the group policy.

    • hayes_@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      7·
      6 months ago

      At the same time, I think I would actually use this tool if it were available on a corporate machine.

      I already assume my employer is recording everything I do. So, I have zero expectation of privacy.

      I regularly have like 30 different tabs and text documents open that meant something to me a couple days ago, but I’ve since lost the context. Being able to ask my computer “why was this important?” or “how did I find this?” would be super useful.

    • KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      2·
      6 months ago

      I doubt it. There are plenty of tools that already do this if that was what they wanted, they’d just model it after those. Storing it locally isn’t how such tools usually work, they get shipped off to a remote server for ingestion.