# arkohut/pensieve

A passive recording project allows you to have complete control over your data. Automatically take screenshots of all your screens, index them, and save them locally.

Repository: https://github.com/arkohut/pensieve
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/arkohut-pensieve
Language: Python
License: Apache-2.0
License Family: permissive
Last push: 2026-07-19T11:35:19+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 85/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:39:23.370411+00:00)
- activity 93, release rhythm 89, longevity 59
- inputs: {"age_days": 829, "days_push": 45, "days_rel": 75, "gap_med": 4.5, "n_releases_24m": 33}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1386, forks 60 (observed 2026-08-28T04:04:34.992091+00:00)

## What it is
Pensieve is a privacy-focused passive screen recording application that automatically takes screenshots of your screens, indexes them with OCR and vector embeddings, and stores everything locally. It provides a web interface with full-text and vector search over your screen history, powered by Ollama or any OpenAI-compatible model.

## Use cases
- find a webpage I saw last week from my screen history
- self-hosted alternative to Rewind or Windows Recall
- search my screenshots with natural language
- keep a private record of everything on my screen
- let an AI agent search my screen history
- index screenshots locally with OCR and vector search

## When to choose
- you want Rewind/Recall-style screen memory but with full local data control
- you already run Ollama or an OpenAI-compatible LLM endpoint
- you're on Mac or Windows and want pip-based simple setup

## When to avoid
- you need Linux support (still in development)
- you're unwilling to run local ML models or store large screenshot archives
- you need cloud-synced screen history across devices

## Facets
- artifact type: application
- maturity: active
- function: ocr, search-engine, vector-database, image-processing, llm-inference, rag, self-hosted, http-server, plugin-system
- domain: privacy, developer-tools, artificial-intelligence, self-hosted
- platform: windows, python, self-hosted
- tags: screen-recording, screenshot-search, rewind-alternative, local-first, ollama, passive-recording, quantified-self, search, macos, web-server

## Member repositories
- arkohut/pensieve (main) score 85

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:04:34.992091+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T04:39:53.300620+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/arkohut/pensieve (fetched 2026-08-28T04:04:34.992091+00:00, sha bb38dc023b54)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.