WorkTimeline – VLM-powered work log

Quietly captures your screen and uses a vision model to reconstruct what you actually did yesterday.

Problem

Every day before standup you struggle to remember what you did. Traditional time trackers only know which app was open, not what you did inside it—e.g., testing a web app spans editor, terminal, and browser. Someone built Hindsight with a VLM to automate this, but such tools are rare.

Solution

A desktop app that takes periodic screenshots (processed locally with an optional local VLM), recognizes the active app and content type, clusters screenshots by project/task, and generates an editable timeline log that exports to standup or daily report templates.

Users

Remote workers, developers who need daily standup notes, freelancers, and knowledge workers wanting to optimize time allocation.

MVP

Periodic screenshots stored locally; use a local VLM to identify app, page title, and content summary; stitch into an editable work log timeline; export Markdown/plain text; all data stays local.

Revenue

One-time purchase desktop app with optional cloud model acceleration subscription; or annual subscription for updates.

Why now

Local VLMs (small vision models) now run on laptops, and privacy concerns make cloud-only solutions hard to adopt. An indie developer can build a local-only timeline tool without relying on big APIs.