This is specifically something some coworkers and I were discussing the other day. Someone said, “I want to ask it where I read an article about (some topic) last week.” or “I remember seeing that when I was researching something else. I wish I’d saved the URL.”

So I’m on board, if just for browser use (as long as it exclude private browsing, of course).

FWIW, I've gotten in the habit of using Zotero (https://www.zotero.org/) with a browser extension to do this. If I read something that I think I might want to reference later, I just hit an extension button and it gets slurped into Zotero with a bunch of information indexed for retrieval later.

How much better is that than safari export-to-pdf and spotlight?

Different, not strictly better. Zotero saves a SingleFile html snapshot and will save the original URL and extracted metadata in its database, which is handy if you use Zotero anyway, but unnecessary if you just want to save text. Additionally you'd need to use Zotero to search it instead of Spotlight.

FWIW AnyBox also will save SingleFile archives and make them searchable to spotlight. Big fan.

> So I’m on board, if just for browser use (as long as it exclude private browsing, of course).

Why not just use your browser history?

Needle in a haystack when you’ve opened and closed several hundred tabs and you’re trying to find some random fact you ran across a week or two ago.

My browser history seems to work fine for this.

Recording everything on the screen for this use case is completely absurd.

This is a feature I specifically do not want.

People have been asking for this since computers were invented. Dont act like just asking the computer and getting the needle from the haystack hasnt been chased since Kernighan wrote the first line of grep. The anti-genAI luddite nonsense has zero place on such a prestigious pro-technology platform.

Oh dear you were doing good up until the last sentence.

I mean, shit, I love seeing all the various AI advancements, but even I wouldn't want this crap built into my OS. At least not unless it's something I can self-host, and have full control over. My days of letting a corporation get it's data hooks into my personal information are long gone, as long as I have any say in the matter. I don't trust them, nor how absolutely drunk they are on shoving AI into every possible hole right now.

I'm pretty sure we warned you that capitalists were behind this. But no, you loved the shiny.

I'd say to flee to Linux, but Mozilla's already on the AI train. Computers are going to shit faster than we can react. Is this what the singularity feels like?

this is nothing, wait until it really kick-backs in, and distributors start getting payoffs to only offer AI chipped hardware with w11 factory loaded.

Maybe it'll help sift through the garbage pile of AI slop that AI will create, but the total recall results will partly hallucinated and be basically worthless. But it's AI, so much hype, very wow.

MS, who is likely collecting data from this feature somehow even if the raw video/images never leave the PC. I imagine law enforcement and three letter agency love it too since now they'll just have to be able to access someone's windows account (MS will help them) to see everything a suspect ever done using their PC. Now they can even just chat with the AI about what it saw. That windows user had better hope it doesn't start hallucinating and invent a story about something that sounds criminal.