, an app available for Macs with Apple Silicon processors and in the works for Windows PCs. Rewind solves a problem that’s all too human: “I am looking for something, I know I saw it on my Mac, but was it a web page? A document? Or did I hear it in a Zoom meeting?”
I’ve been using Rewind since December, and having lived with it for more than three months, I’ve gotten over my reservations about privacy and the software. It is a remarkably useful app, and I think it’s the kind of thing that should be built into all personal computer operating systems. “We are not oblivious,” he said. “We know that the world is big and while there’s only about 30 million Apple Silicon laptops out there, there’s about a billion other machines that we can go after if we offer .”When you install it on a Mac, it begins recording all your actions — everything you see in email, all your web activity, what you create in documents, what happens in apps, even the teleconferencing meetings you attend .
For example, on a recent trip to Frisco, I did some web research on healthy breakfast options but couldn’t remember a spot that had appealed to me. So I invoked Rewind, clicked on the browser icon on the timeline and quickly found the web page forAnd what happens on your Mac stays on your hard drive, with two exceptions I’ll detail in a moment. None of the captured data is saved to the cloud, the company says.
Siroker said you can ask the product to do things such as draft an email, summarize your work week for a report or round up things you’ve researched. It uses the AI’s predictive text capabilities to generate documents based on what you’ve done on your computer.