# 🧠 Ask what you saw on Tuesday — your PC remembers everything, free (Screenpipe) **URL:** \ **Category:** Tutorials & Methods\ **Tags:** tools, freebies, ai\ **Created:** [November 10, 2026, 4:55pm UTC](https://onehack.st/t/ask-what-you-saw-on-tuesday-your-pc-remembers-everything-free-screenpipe/327160 "2026-11-10T16:55:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Sarah](https://onehack.st/user_avatar/onehack.st/sarah/32/166974_2.png) [@Sarah](https://onehack.st/u/Sarah)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2026, 4:55pm UTC](https://onehack.st/t/ask-what-you-saw-on-tuesday-your-pc-remembers-everything-free-screenpipe/327160/1 "2026-11-10T16:55:00Z")
![SCREENPIPE HERO](https://onehack.st/uploads/default/original/3X/2/6/262ac9b67eafa8866567cf467456c766c6d11537.jpeg) ## 🧠 Microsoft’s version needs a $1000 AI chip — this runs on any laptop you already own . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ❓ Where was that page I read on Tuesday? 🧠 Ask your own computer — it quietly remembers everything on your screen ⬇ 📼 Your PC records screen + sound → into a private memory bank on YOUR disk 🔎 Then you search it like Google — “that chart from Monday’s call”, “the recipe video”, “where I left off” 🏠 Nothing leaves your machine — works offline after setup, no phone recorded, no account needed to start ([docs](https://docs.screenpipe.com/faq)) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ### 🚪 Pick your memory door 🆓 **Door 1 — $0 forever** · [receipt](https://screenpipe.com/onboarding) ↳ records everything · asks the last 24h · add Ollama → asking unlimited ([recipe](https://docs.screenpipe.com/ollama)) 🔓 **Door 2 — the time capsule** · [v2.3.27](https://github.com/screenpipe/screenpipe/releases/tag/v2.3.27) ↳ the last MIT build (April 2026) · frozen features · unlimited asking · zero strings 💰 **Door 3 — $21/mo** · [pricing](https://screenpipe.com/onboarding) ↳ full history search + built-in AI — when memory becomes your work tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ### 🎚 Four moves to a working memory 1 [Download](https://github.com/screenpipe/screenpipe/releases/latest) for Mac / Windows / Linux — or one command: `npx screenpipe record` 2 Keep it light: low FPS, one monitor, mic off — a normal laptop hums instead of cooking ([tuning](https://luci.memories.ai/blog/fix-screenpipe-high-cpu-usage)) 3 Add Ollama (one command), pick it in settings — now ask your past, unlimited, offline 4 Open Scheduled tasks → Discover → GET “Digital Clone” — zero-code automation from your own history ([library](https://docs.screenpipe.com/task-library)) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ### 🧱 The honest walls — each one has a free fix | the wall | the free fix | | --- | --- | | ⏰ free search shows only the last 24h ([receipt](https://github.com/screenpipe/screenpipe/issues/7483)) | 📼 recording never stops — read your own disk (see 📦 drawer) | | 🔥 heat + battery fear | 🪫 built-in backoff pauses at 20%/10% ([code](https://github.com/screenpipe/screenpipe/commit/a80777bbc94c7386b36e46f67d2b069944e5d73c)) + the tuning page | | 💾 eats ~30GB/month | 🧹 14-day auto-delete is ON by default ([code](https://github.com/screenpipe/screenpipe/blob/main/crates/screenpipe-engine/src/retention.rs)) | | 🔓 history sits unencrypted on disk ([truth](https://github.com/screenpipe/screenpipe/issues/3943)) | 🛡 switch on FileVault / BitLocker — free, already inside your OS | | 🎙 recording people has laws (map in 📦 drawer) | 🔇 mic off + banking apps excluded ([docs](https://docs.screenpipe.com/recording-controls)) | | 🏢 work laptop | ✍ machine you own only — company policy beats any setting | . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . > **📦 Level it up — the parts nobody tells you** > > - 🌙 **Nightly harvest trick** : two scheduled jobs copy each day’s history out before the 24h window closes — full memory at $0, a real user’s working setup ([build](https://dev.to/cryptopunk_dz2_bd054446a6/six-posts-guessed-why-my-machines-crawl-this-one-runs-the-experiment-45pi)) > - 🧠 **Chat with everything you ever saw** : the hidden [llama-index connector](https://pypi.org/project/llama-index-readers-screenpipe/) (68 downloads/month — you’d never find it) turns your whole history into a searchable brain > - 📄 **Automations = one markdown file** : [pipe.md](https://screenpipe.com/pipes) — write a schedule + a prompt in Notepad, the app runs it daily ([42 paste-ready prompts](https://gist.github.com/louis030195/7d7749435394e035776c33913f504e37/0242ca8414bf52f16f8c7a41a825406631791467)) > - 📱 **The phone half** : desktop recorders can’t see your phone — [ScreenMemo 屏忆](https://pwa.sspai.com/post/110115) does the same trick on Android, open source > - 🔦 **Right-now memory** : [eSearch](https://github.com/xushengfeng/eSearch) snips + reads any screen text offline · [ScreenFind](https://github.com/sid1552/ScreenFind) = Ctrl+F for your physical screen (Windows) · [CopyQ](https://hluk.github.io/CopyQ/) remembers everything you ever copied > - 🥊 **The rivals, checked live** : Microsoft Recall needs a Copilot+ AI chip [your laptop doesn’t have](https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/apps/develop/windows-integration/recall/) · Rewind/Limitless — [bought by Meta, shut down](https://limitlessalternative.com/) · [Windrecorder](https://github.com/yuka-friends/Windrecorder/) = free unlimited Windows alternative · OpenRecall = free, [crashes on Windows today](https://github.com/openrecall/openrecall) > - 🗄 **Read your whole memory yourself** : your history = one database file — open a COPY in [DB Browser for SQLite](https://github.com/sqlitebrowser/sqlitebrowser), spreadsheet-style, free > - ⚖ **Mic-law map before enabling sound** : [world recording laws](https://www.recordinglaw.com/world-laws/world-recording-laws/) — screen-only mode sidesteps the question > - 💼 **Money angle** : freelancers rebuild billable hours into draft reports ([official playbooks](https://docs.screenpipe.com/consultant-time-tracking)) — same-day on free > - 🏥 **It’s real medicine** : an amnesic patient reviewing auto-captured images measurably regained memory — brain-scan confirmed ([study](https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/publication/the-use-of-a-wearable-camera-sensecam-as-a-pictorial-diary-to-improve-autobiographical-memory-in-a-patient-with-limbic-encephalitis-a-preliminary-report/)) ⏳ Set it up on a quiet Tuesday — memory only pays off if it was recording first **🧠 One licence note, honestly:** MIT died June 2026 — personal use stays free forever, companies pay. Old articles lie — this is the state as of today ([the founder’s own words](https://screenpipe.com/blog/screenpipe-license-update))