Hindsight

Manual or automatic tracking

You choose how the timeline is built. Manual tracking needs nothing at all; automatic tracking needs Screen Recording and an AI engine.

Manual tracking

Add activities yourself. Hindsight needs no permissions and no AI setup, and captures no screen content.

  1. Open Activity in the main window.
  2. Click the + button in the toolbar. Add Activity opens for the day you are viewing.
  3. Fill in Activity, App / Source, Category, and optionally Project and Context, then set Start and End.
  4. Click Add.

Automatic tracking

Hindsight takes a still screenshot every 20 seconds by default, and when you switch apps, skipping frames where nothing changed. A vision model describes each window, and Hindsight groups the descriptions into activities, one per task however long it took.

  • It needs Screen Recording permission only. Hindsight never asks for Accessibility.
  • Window titles come from macOS with the capture. The model reads one off the screenshot only when macOS gives none.
  • It takes still frames. No video, no audio, no streaming.
  • Sleep and idle time are marked as away, not counted as work.

Automatic tracking also needs a Vision Engine that can run. See Choose an AI engine.

Use both

Manual activities and automatic ones share the same timeline. You can add an activity by hand for a day when tracking was off, such as a meeting away from your Mac.

Still stuck? Email [email protected] and we will help.