What changed

Remember This used to be a web app wrapped in a Mac window. v0.10.0 is a real SwiftUI app — properly native UX, smooth scrolling, real keyboard handling, every macOS convention you'd expect.

The deeper change: the indexing engine, AI worker pool, and HTTP API all moved out of the app and into a standalone background service. Close the window and your photos keep getting captioned, your voice memos keep getting transcribed, the time logs keep parsing. Open the window again and everything is up to date. The menu-bar icon shows live service status and lets you start, stop, and restart the service without ever reopening the main window. A GUI hiccup can no longer take the worker pool down with it — the service is its own thing.

Photos and Full Disk Access permissions carry over from any previous install — you do not need to grant them again. Your data folder is untouched. If you were on v0.8 or v0.9, auto-update will replace the old app with the new one the next time you launch.

AI Integrations

A new tab dedicated to wiring Remember This into your AI workflows. Most of the work this cycle landed here.

• Setup health. The tab tells you, at a glance, whether Claude Code, tmux, and your Anthropic auth are wired up correctly. Anything missing gets a one-click "Run installer in Terminal" button rather than instructions you have to copy-paste.
• Run a prompt. A small library of bundled investigations — life summary, hobbies and interests, closest people year by year, forgotten moments, patterns you might not see, a time audit, places that shaped you. One click spawns a Terminal at your data folder and asks Claude Code to write the answer.
• Workflows. The "dreamer" runs that synthesize narratives across your photos, voice memos, and time logs got a real control surface: schedule, run-now per cadence, and a live list of running sessions you can attach to or kill.
• Backend choice. The Claude Code backend picker is now explicit about the three actual options — Anthropic direct, local Ollama, or Ollama Cloud — with the privacy and speed trade-offs spelled out next to each, so you know what you're picking.

Skills

A bundled set of Claude Code skills shipped with the app, tailored to specific personal-context workflows. Each skill is a small template that Claude routes the right kind of question to automatically once it's installed in your setup.

What ships in the box: Biography writing · Keeping in touch with people · Parenting log · Periodic reflection (weekly / monthly / quarterly / annual) · Journaling · Memoir · Career strategy · Health tracking · Weekly orientation · Ask anything. You install the ones that fit your life; the rest stay out of the way.

Sharper photo captions

The vision-language model that captions your photos got swapped for a more capable variant. Captions are noticeably better — particularly on scenes with text, signage, or UI elements where the previous model often guessed. New photos use the new model automatically; old captions stay until you choose to recaption them.

Smaller things

• Live Photos and videos play in the viewer. The lightbox could open stills before; v0.10 plays Live Photos the way Apple Photos does and renders videos in a real AppKit player — scrubber, full-screen, picture-in-picture — without ever leaving the window.
• Faster transcription on Intel Macs. A real bench — measuring model load time and CPU% alongside transcription time — showed CPU with 2 threads beats Metal GPU on Intel by about 1.9× for the default model. v0.10 flips the x86_64 default accordingly. Apple Silicon stays on Metal where it wins.
• A lot of bug fixes. Several long-standing reliability issues got tracked down and resolved this cycle — particularly around photo captioning on iCloud-only assets, voice memo transcription edge cases, and the indexing pipeline catching up after large library changes. Faster, fewer dead ends.

What's next

Not well defined yet. The immediate priority is stabilizing v0.10 through the beta — the next chapter will take shape from what holds up under real use and what feedback comes back. Bug reports from Settings → Bug report go straight into that loop.