Ask Rewind - What if you had perfect memory?

Hi, I’m Dan Siroker, co-founder & CEO of Rewind. Thousands of users use Rewind every day to search through their memories. But search is such an antiquated concept. What if there was a better way? What if we could ask Rewind any question about anything we’ve seen, said, or heard? Well now we can. Introducing Ask Rewind

The phrase 'game changer' is too readily used.......but this? This truly deserves it. Bravo Rewind team!

Congratulations on the launch 🎉 > For your privacy, everything is stored locally on your computer. I think this is a bit misleading because to process a request you need to send sensitive user data to AI server(for the context). And it sounds scary because you collect EVERYTHING

This is really neat. Can I plug Rewind into personal messenger systems like Whatsapp? That would be very helpful

Feels like real version of Her, a virtual assistant. Congrats on the launch

This actually seems like a really great idea. I could see people with mild form of dementia getting immense value from this. Have you explored that angle before?

Holy crap! I’ve been using Rewind for months now and it has been incredibly useful but this completely changes the game. So excited to try this!

Watching with great interest. If privacy can be nailed, then whoa

In my mind, this is the perfect evolution of Rewind. It’s the thing that takes it from cool piece of tech to “can’t remember how I functioned without it” sort of territory. At the moment Rewind is a very impressive application, techincally speaking. With the compression, low resource usage etc. and it has certainly helped me a few times to find things I’ve recently lost and get some in person meetings transcribed easily. Or just now when I closed this text box without submitting this comment... Where it falls down, is that it’s quite difficult to find something from a while ago, unless you know EXACTLY what the text was. The searches are incredibly literal, so typing in “Amazon new phone" will return all the web pages and apps with mentions of “Amazon", and even some similar words like “amazing" - there’s no contextual understanding. It’s like Rewind has got incredible memory but limited recall and understanding. And the likelihood is if I know exactly what the text was, I don’t need to search it. It makes it a cool but quite limited tool at present. ChatGPT for Me, however, looks like it will solve that recall part, and turn Rewind.ai into an indispensable tool. I can’t help but feel it should be named and separated like that. Rewind.ai Memory is the app as it is today, saves and records everything. This new addition is Rewind.ai Recall (maybe with ChatGPT for Me as a strapline). That seems to me a good explanation to the two halves. By extension it really then becomes your second brain. That’s a term that a million note apps have used, but you still have to input to those note apps. Rewind is just absorbing things, connecting them, making them retrievable, like an actual brain. You’re not specifically categorising things i.e. you wouldn’t think “I must create a task to do the cleaning” and input a mental checkbox against, you just know it’s a task that you need to complete. It would be interesting to build on that premise with intelligent natural language e.g. “find that new phone case I was looking at last week on amazon” and it pulls it right up. Or “I need to buy Mum a birthday card for Saturday” and it just knows that it’s a task that should be completed before Saturday and logs it. Even better if it intelligently sends that into other tools like task managers. Super excited.

Rewind concept blew my mind the first time I heard about it but interfacing it with NLP, now this is truly crazy 🤯