HindsightHelp Centre
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Short guides to using Hindsight: setting up tracking, choosing an AI engine, reading your day, and keeping your data private.
The same core topics are in the app under Help in the menu bar.
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Getting started
Tracking and AI
- Screen Recording permissionWhy automatic tracking needs Screen Recording, how to grant it, and what to do when macOS doesn't apply it.
- Choose an AI enginePick the engine that describes screenshots and the one that writes standups, reviews and answers, with an optional fallback for each.
- Use Ollama or LM StudioRun a local vision model with Ollama or LM Studio so screenshots never leave your Mac, and fix the common connection errors.
Your day and week
- Daily and your standupSee each day by category and project, and edit the standup Hindsight writes from it before you copy it into Slack.
- Review and correct activitiesConfirm, edit, ignore or retry the activities Hindsight flagged, split an activity in two, and change several at once.
- ProjectsHow Hindsight decides which project time belongs to, how to declare suggested projects, and how to rename, merge or export them.
- Weekly Review and exportsGenerate a review of the week, export it as a PDF or the week's activities as CSV, and export any date range as CSV or JSON.
Focus and automation
Data and privacy
- What Hindsight captures and skipsWhat automatic tracking records, which apps and windows are never captured, how to exclude more, and how long screenshots are kept.
- iCloud syncKeep the text of your activities, projects, standups and reviews in your own private iCloud, end-to-end encrypted. What syncs and how to fix it.
- Back up, export and deleteMake and restore backups of your Hindsight data, export activities for any dates, and erase everything with Delete All Data.
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