Lifelog 0.4.0

A sturdier, faster archive, and a database of it for SQL and AI tools.

• _archive.sqlite: every archived item in one read-only SQLite database in the archive folder, with full-text search (items_fts) and the run log, for sqlite3, Datasette, DuckDB or an AI tool. It's rewritten at most once a day by archive runs, and right away by lifelog rebuild.
• Faster runs: the index cache is now a local SQLite database, and a run reads only the ledger lines added since the last one. Loading the index of a large archive went from over a minute to a few seconds.
• Versioned ledger: ledger and run log lines carry a format version. If another Mac on a newer Lifelog writes lines this version doesn't understand, they're never treated as damage: that source pauses and pages aren't rewritten until you update, then everything catches up on the next run.
• Facebook entries: posts, comments and other Facebook export items are stored as generic entries instead of chat messages. Existing items convert once on the next Facebook import, without being marked edited; their pages stay the same.
• Claude Code cleanup: runs no longer report hundreds of duplicate-line warnings, and lifelog dedupe retires messages that were archived twice.

The first run after updating reads the whole ledger once to build the new cache.

Install

Download Lifelog-0.4.0.zip, unzip it and move Lifelog.app to /Applications, replacing the old version. The app is signed with a Developer ID and notarized by Apple, so it opens with a double-click. Permissions you granted to earlier versions carry over.

Requires macOS 14 or newer.

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