So it seems that what #Windows#MicrosoftRecall does is take screenshots, sorts windows by application, then runs each window through an image-to-text model and logs its contents, capturing text, web domain information, and the topic of the content. This information is then logged in a searchable local database.
This has to be combined with some way to get back to the content, right? So if I searched for a topic in the future, Windows has to be able to restore the app and the document that you were viewing. So there has to be some URL or file path associated with each window content.
I know people are freaked out about this feature, but I think it’s basically Spotlight on steroids. I’m actually not that freaked out about it if it’s local-only, and I think this can actually be useful for someone with #ADHD like me who loses content all the time.
The real questions: what privacy-protection mechanisms are present, who gets to access to this data, how easily it can be exfiltrated?
Just spent an hour working out how to get Excel to tell me exactly - to two decimal points - how little I’ve done towards a Big Task that’s looming over me.
The Big Task is now 25% complete, all because I procrastinated doing it by taking the time to visualise how much needs to be done.
This morning I kinda felt like I wasted that hour, but the fact is, I've done more on that job today than I have in the 8 months since I first took it on.