Re:Rewind for iPhone
by dsiroker on Wednesday July 26, 2023 @09:13AM
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It’s been 14 years since my first submission to HN and I am so grateful to this community for all your feedback & help on my first company (Optimizely) and now my second one (Rewind). Today we’re introducing Rewind for iPhone - a truly personalized AI in your pocket. I’d love your feedback!
Browse & search for any word you’ve seen (including screenshots)
- Rewind automatically captures what you read in Safari and imports your screenshots.
- You can preserve & search for anything you’ve seen on your iPhone.
- This opens a new dimension of computing: time.
Summarize and ask any question using AI
- Rewind integrates with OpenAI GPT-4 to allow you to ask any question about anything you’ve seen.
- Create summaries, synthesize information across apps, or remind yourself how you know someone.
Private by design
- Private browsing in Safari is not captured.
- Using GPT-4 is optional and only the relevant text necessary to answer your question is used.
- Your data is not used to train AI models.
- All recordings are stored locally and only you have access to them.
Re:Rewind for iPhone
by joshstrange on Wednesday July 26, 2023 @09:49AM
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So it's a reader app for what happens on you mac plus a Safari mobile browser extension to record what happens there? Clever implementation for an OS that is limited in what it allows in this regard.
I've tried Rewind on the Mac for a little bit but turned it off because I thought it was causing an issue with my notifications (I think now it's related to something else). I never "used" a rewind in part because I hate using consumable things (See also my slight aversion to Kagi, though I want to give it another shot). I also dislike pricing that's not really based on ongoing costs (searching your local archive 10 times or 1000 doesn't seem to cost Rewind anything). I was also not super excited about the whole "we will summarize your meetings" feature I got a notification about as it requires sending your data to Rewind. Also, I think part of my issue is that while I like having the history I don't have the muscle memory to use said history yet and so I forget it's there.
On pricing: you are also right. We are thinking about new pricing & packaging that feels fairer. We're thinking about doing purely feature-based package differentiation (as opposed to tracking number of "rewinds"). Would love your thoughts or suggestions.
On muscle memory: again, you are right. Some of our users think of our product today as mostly insurance and don't actively use it every day. We hope to change that by giving them valuable things that fit into their existing daily workflow (e.g. summarizing meetings, telling you how you know the person you are about to meet with, proactively drafting emails for you based on context)
I've been using Rewind for a while and got a chance to try out the iPhone implementation when it was in development. I have to say, the Rewind team is pretty creative in how they thought about moving the same hands-off experience from Mac to iPhone. Personally most of the stuff I want to Rewind to is in Safari anyways so this is perfect to me (and the screenshot import fills in the rest, though I have a ton of junk screenshots of my lockscreen...).
I hope one day we're able to combine our Mac & iPhone indexes (and privately!), since that's the last cognitive load I have (which computer did I look at something on, or was it my phone?) when using Rewind
Browse & search for any word you’ve seen (including screenshots)
- Rewind automatically captures what you read in Safari and imports your screenshots.
- You can preserve & search for anything you’ve seen on your iPhone.
- This opens a new dimension of computing: time.
Summarize and ask any question using AI
- Rewind integrates with OpenAI GPT-4 to allow you to ask any question about anything you’ve seen.
- Create summaries, synthesize information across apps, or remind yourself how you know someone.
Private by design
- Private browsing in Safari is not captured.
- Using GPT-4 is optional and only the relevant text necessary to answer your question is used.
- Your data is not used to train AI models.
- All recordings are stored locally and only you have access to them.
Please let me know what you think!
I've tried Rewind on the Mac for a little bit but turned it off because I thought it was causing an issue with my notifications (I think now it's related to something else). I never "used" a rewind in part because I hate using consumable things (See also my slight aversion to Kagi, though I want to give it another shot). I also dislike pricing that's not really based on ongoing costs (searching your local archive 10 times or 1000 doesn't seem to cost Rewind anything). I was also not super excited about the whole "we will summarize your meetings" feature I got a notification about as it requires sending your data to Rewind. Also, I think part of my issue is that while I like having the history I don't have the muscle memory to use said history yet and so I forget it's there.
On Mac: you are right that recording audio causes your notifications to be hidden by default. There is an OS setting to change that behavior. Here's how to change it: https://help.rewind.ai/en/articles/7039599-what-are-the-limi...
On pricing: you are also right. We are thinking about new pricing & packaging that feels fairer. We're thinking about doing purely feature-based package differentiation (as opposed to tracking number of "rewinds"). Would love your thoughts or suggestions.
On muscle memory: again, you are right. Some of our users think of our product today as mostly insurance and don't actively use it every day. We hope to change that by giving them valuable things that fit into their existing daily workflow (e.g. summarizing meetings, telling you how you know the person you are about to meet with, proactively drafting emails for you based on context)
I hope one day we're able to combine our Mac & iPhone indexes (and privately!), since that's the last cognitive load I have (which computer did I look at something on, or was it my phone?) when using Rewind