DeskLore 0.2.0 — Durable Timeline Agent and privacy controls

DeskLore 0.2.0 makes Timeline Agent work durable, adds user-controlled observation exclusions,
and brings the app, settings, and project website into a bilingual early-release shape.

Highlights

• Pi-powered Timeline Agent summaries with evidence inspection and citation validation.
• Persistent background jobs with fair scheduling, recovery, bounded retry backoff, and Electron
  utility-process isolation.
• Application, domain, and window-title exclusions, including an installed-app picker.
• Redesigned timeline, diagnostics, recovery, and tabbed settings surfaces.
• English and Simplified Chinese across the desktop app and project website.
• OpenAI Responses and Chat Completions support for optional model-backed features.
• Local capture, timeline, and visual-value evaluators with explicit provenance and human-review
  boundaries.

Reliability fixes

• Restored summary generation after Timeline Agent worker startup and IPC failures.
• Corrected retries for stalled, runtime-blocked, and provider-blocked jobs.
• Reduced duplicate window-transition noise while retaining meaningful context.
• Centralized atomic owner-only writes for retained history state.

Run from source

git clone --branch v0.2.0 https://github.com/FoundDream/desklore.git
cd desklore
pnpm install --frozen-lockfile
pnpm dev

Requirements and current limits

• macOS 14 or newer on Apple Silicon.
• Node.js 24+, pnpm 11+, and Xcode Command Line Tools with Swift 6.2+.
• This release is source-only. There is no official signed or notarized binary yet.
• DeskLore does not import data or unversioned settings from pre-release Computer History builds.
• Included evaluators help investigate local behavior. They do not establish product-quality claims
  without fresh controlled data and human review.

See PRIVACY.md for the complete
recording and data boundary.

DeskLore 0.1.0 — First public source release

DeskLore's first public source release turns macOS activity into a local, searchable timeline and
layered memory without continuously recording the screen.

Highlights

• Semantic activity capture through a native Swift Collector and macOS Accessibility APIs.
• Local timeline, six-hour memory rollups, daily memory, and search.
• Explicit first-run consent before the Collector starts.
• Sensitive-surface, private-browsing, and password-field filtering.
• Inspectable JSONL and Markdown artifacts with deletion and retention controls.
• Optional model summaries and visual fallback, both disabled by default.

Run from source

git clone https://github.com/FoundDream/desklore.git
cd desklore
pnpm install --frozen-lockfile
pnpm dev

Requirements and current limits

• macOS 14 or newer on Apple Silicon.
• Node.js 24+, pnpm 11+, and Xcode Command Line Tools with Swift 6.2+.
• This release is source-only. There is no official signed or notarized binary yet.
• DeskLore starts with a new local schema and does not import data from pre-release Computer
  History builds.

See PRIVACY.md for the complete
recording and data boundary.