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ScreenSearch v0.2.0 — Clear Signal

ScreenSearch is a Windows-only, fully local desktop app that captures your screen, makes it
searchable by text and meaning, and answers questions about it — entirely on-device. No cloud, no
account, no telemetry.

Clear Signal is the release where ScreenSearch gets much better at remembering what you were
actually working on — not just every toolbar, taskbar label, browser tab, desktop icon, or piece of
app chrome that happened to be visible.

⚠️ Pre-release & unsigned. Early build for testing. The installer is not code-signed, so
Windows SmartScreen will warn on first launch — click More info → Run anyway. Treat it as beta.

Install

  1. Download ScreenSearch_0.2.0_x64-setup.exe below.
  2. Run it (SmartScreen → More info → Run anyway), then launch ScreenSearch.

First run — what to expect

  • Internet is required on first run. The app downloads its inference engine and local ML models
    into its per-user app-data folder (%APPDATA%\app.screensearchv2c.desktop\). Downloads show
    progress in-app and are resumable.
  • Model downloads are much faster in 0.2.0. ScreenSearch now uses a parallel, chunked downloader
    for range-capable model hosts, with resume support and integrity checks. Single-stream download
    remains as a fallback.
  • Only one instance runs at a time — if you launch it again, it focuses the existing window
    instead of starting a second copy.

Requirements

  • Windows 10/11 x64 with the WebView2 runtime.
  • A Vulkan-capable GPU is recommended for fast local inference; a CPU fallback exists but is
    slower.
  • ~50 GB free disk recommended for models and captured frames.

What’s in it

The headline change is attention-first recall. ScreenSearch now preserves full raw OCR, but uses
a cleaner filtered text layer by default for Search, Ask, embeddings, and Reports. That means recall
is less likely to be dominated by static UI chrome like taskbars, sidebars, browser labels, desktop
icons, and ScreenSearch’s own navigation.

Recall also gains a new Reports mode: Daily, Weekly, and Custom on-device summaries with source
frames, progress, cancel, copy, and Markdown download. Weekly and longer reports use a coverage-first
map-reduce strategy so quiet days are not starved by busy ones.

Ask gets new prompt cards for common recall workflows: Day Recap, Standup Update,
Time Breakdown, Top of Mind, and AI Habits.

This release also includes important hardening:

  • ScreenSearch no longer captures and indexes its own foreground window.
  • Existing stale chrome is re-filtered during startup backfill.
  • Privacy / Excluded Apps changes now apply immediately to a running capture loop.
  • Ask source tiles now say Frames checked when they represent reviewed context rather than
    claim-level citations.

Known limitations

  • Unsigned installer → SmartScreen warning.
  • Windows-only by design.
  • First run still downloads several GB of local models.
  • Some secondary-monitor / rect-unknown desktop chrome can still leak into default text search; raw
    text recovery remains available via the include-app-chrome path.
  • Scheduled reports, event-driven capture, UIA text, and smart enrichment throttling are deferred.

Full Changelog: v0.1.0...0.2.0

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