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As far as I can see based on the data already posted online, this is literally the Windows 10 Timeline feature, it even (re)uses the same API from that feature

As far as I can see based on the data already posted online, this is literally the Windows 10 Timeline feature, it even (re)uses the same API from that feature (that was deprecated just 3 months ago) and apparently shares the implementation as well (that feature also used a sqlite DB in your AppData and a subfolder with jpegs). They just put a little AI lipstick on that old pig in the form of OCR and some image classification. The Windows 10 Timeline feature has been around for 6 years. It is a bit surprising there is so much pushback this time around for effectively the same thing. I wonder if it's because Microsoft has been burning away people's trust through ads and dark patterns and all that bullshit, and this is the direct result of that.

ooterness 2y ago
Windows Timeline stores a list of recently opened apps and documents, not screenshots.
rezonant 2y ago
Actually Timeline was a semantic store from what I understand-- it didn't store screenshots of what you were doing, instead apps that used the Microsoft Graph API could contribute information about what you were doing to be included in the Timeline. As far as I know, nothing used it except for MS' own apps. This new solution bypasses that problem by having no requirement for apps to use the Graph API-- it will just use an AI to deduce what the tasks were, and provide a search-like conversational experience on top of the collected images.