The idea

Your photo library is the most complete record of your life that exists. It knows who you spend time with, where you go, and how all of it has changed over the years. But that knowledge is locked away in metadata you never look at.

v0.9.0 reads Apple Photos — face clusters, GPS coordinates, timestamps, album membership — and turns it into a first draft: a structured summary of the people in your life, where you've been, and how your world has evolved over time. Everything runs locally on your Mac. Nothing leaves your device.

What you see

The new Home view replaces the old timeline. When you open the app, you see:

• Your people. Everyone Apple Photos has identified, with photo counts, date ranges, and inferred relationships — partner, children, parents, friends — based on how often they appear together with you and their estimated age.
• Your social world. A force-directed network graph showing who appears together, with photo thumbnails as nodes. Scrub through years to watch your social world evolve.
• Where you've been. A month-by-month place timeline with country flags, built from Apple's geocoding data. Your primary home base, your favorite destination, the trips that stand out.
• Playful guesses. "This might be your family." "Your best friend might be..." "You seem to love..." The app takes its best guess from the data and invites you to correct it.
• What it's confident about. Every inference comes with a confidence level. The app is honest about what it knows, what it suspects, and what it's missing.

A time slider at the bottom lets you scrub through years. Hit play and watch the graph animate from your oldest photos to today.

Correct what's wrong

The draft is a starting point, not a final answer. Click any person to set their relationship and add personal notes. The app remembers your corrections — even if you regenerate entities from fresh data, your edits are preserved.

If you use Claude Code, the same editing tools are available via MCP. Tell Claude "Anna is my sister" and it updates the entity file directly.

Cross-device photo identity

If you sync your Remember This folder across multiple Macs (a power-user scenario for now), each Mac assigns different local identifiers to the same iCloud photos. Without a stable ID, the app would create duplicate files.

v0.9.0 uses Apple's PHCloudIdentifier — a stable identifier that survives device migration — as the filename for photo files. The same iCloud photo on any device maps to the same file. Deduplication is automatic.

Existing installs get an automatic one-time migration on first launch. It runs silently in the background.

Sources & confidence

A new Sources & Coverage view shows what data the system has, year by year. Coverage bars for people identification and GPS data. A clear list of what's not connected yet — calendar, messaging, notes — and what each would add.

This matters because the quality of the draft depends entirely on the quality of the sources. The app doesn't pretend to know more than it does.

New MCP tools

Two new tools for Claude Code via MCP:

• parse_tslog — Parse timestamp log files directly. Returns structured time entries with per-day summaries, total hours, and date ranges. Uses your system timezone by default. Built for timesheet submission and invoice workflows.
• search_by_gps — Find photos near any GPS coordinate within a radius. Uses Haversine distance for accuracy. Useful for reconstructing visit dates — e.g., finding all photos taken near a specific address for a kilometer log.

Claude Code integration

Everything above works without AI. But if you enable Claude Code in Settings, the app can go deeper: named life periods, relationship narratives, current context summaries, and a "may need attention" section for relationships going quiet or commitments mentioned but not followed up.

The deterministic draft appears immediately. Claude Code enrichment runs in the background and appears when ready.

What's next

v0.9.0 is the first proof point — "show me how much the system can infer from data I already have." Next: automated dreamer sessions that run daily, a review queue for high-leverage corrections, and the Life Book view for narrative browsing by era.