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A free Mac app that keeps a live biographer alongside you. It interviews you about your past, present and future, writes your story as it goes, and gives your AI the context to help with reflection, everyday chores and planning your life.
Remember This writes your life story
The Life Book tab drafts your biography from what your archive already knows—where you've lived, who keeps appearing in your photos, what your voice memos talk about. It splits your life into eras automatically and writes one focused chapter at a time, in the background, in minutes.
- Chapters, not a data dump
Pick an era—the most recent is pre-selected—and get one focused, readable chapter. Come back to the same era anytime; each pass builds on the last.
- It interviews you
While writing, it asks the few questions only you can answer—who's in the 2019 photos, what mattered that year. Answer by voice or text; corrections are remembered for every future chapter.
- Never a black box
You always see whether it's writing (step away), waiting on your answers, or done. Your life story stays in plain markdown, in your folder, like everything else.
What this looks like in practice
Things you can only ask once your AI can read your own archive
Your past
“Write my autobiography.”
The Life Book splits your life into eras and drafts a chapter at a time from the photos, places and people already in your archive.
“How different was life before and after we had kids?”
Your own timeline either side of a date, rather than what you happen to remember about it now.
“Map all my travel over the last decade, down to the exact dates.”
Every trip and its dates, reconstructed from where your photos were taken. Nobody keeps that log. Everybody has the photos.
Your present
“What have I been up to lately? Write an update for friends and family.”
Drawn from what you actually did over the past weeks, not from a blank page on a Sunday evening.
“I photographed an event poster a few days ago. What was it, and can I go?”
Every photo is described in words when it lands, so the poster you half-remember is searchable text with a date attached.
“Who haven’t we had over for dinner in a while?”
Who turns up in your photos, and how long it has been since the last time.
Your future
“Find us somewhere to travel we haven’t already been.”
It knows everywhere you have been, so it can rule all of it out before it starts suggesting.
“Based on what we’ve done to the house before, what maintenance is due soon?”
What was done, and when, going back years. The service you had done in a summer you no longer remember is still in there.
How it works
You keep capturing what you already capture. Remember This does the filing.
Photos · Voice Memos · Transactions · Projects · Notes
- 1Capture
Photos, voice memos, transactions, and notes. Use the tools you already have—iPhone, Apple Watch, or a text editor.
- 2Structure
Remember This organizes everything into markdown files with timestamps, people, places, and metadata. All on your Mac.
- 3Use
Claude Code and any other MCP-compatible agent read that folder, which is what lets them help with your actual life rather than life in general.
Your life shouldn't live in someone else's database.
Everything lives in one folder on your Mac, as plain markdown you can read, edit and back up yourself. Photos and voice memos never leave the machine, and any MCP-compatible agent can use the folder, so your tools can change without taking your context with them.
Plain markdown files · Works with Claude Code, OpenClaw or any MCP agent
Pay what you decide
The whole app, at any amount including nothing. The real running cost is your AI subscription, which you pay to Anthropic or OpenAI.
This is where you go
Two rungs on the ladder put your business on this page: a line and a link, from one small company to another.
Nobody is on it yet. It starts with whoever picks €50 first, and we are not going to pad it out in the meantime.
Frequently Asked Questions
Where is my data stored?
Everything lives in a single folder on your Mac (default: ~/Remember This/). Inside, the folder is split into Registry (photos and voice memos—stays on your Mac) and Notes (your Obsidian vault with rollups—syncs to mobile). All processing happens locally. Nothing is sent to any server.
How is this different from ChatGPT memory or Google Personal Intelligence?
Those tools remember your conversations or reason over cloud data. Remember This structures your actual life artifacts—photos with people and places, transcribed voice memos, tracked time, transactions—into plain files on your Mac. The result is deep personal context that any AI agent can use, not just one provider’s chatbot.
Do I need to use Claude Code?
Remember This runs on your own AI subscription: Claude (Anthropic) or ChatGPT (OpenAI, through Codex). That’s what processes your folder on a schedule you control, following instructions you define. Your folder is plain files, so any other AI agent—including OpenClaw—can read it too.
Can I use this on iOS or Android?
The app runs on macOS only (Apple Silicon recommended). Your rollups and notes sync to Obsidian Mobile via iCloud or Obsidian Sync—the Notes folder is small and syncs quickly. You capture on mobile (photos, voice memos), process on Mac, and view your context everywhere.
What do I need to get started?
You need: (1) macOS 14.0+ with the Remember This app installed, (2) your own AI subscription: Claude (Anthropic) or ChatGPT (OpenAI, through Codex), and (3) Obsidian (recommended for viewing your vault). Optional: iCloud or Obsidian Sync for accessing your notes on mobile.
Latest from the blog
See all posts →- v0.14.0: Ask Claude About Your Own Life
Remember This now starts with one question about you, and then gets on with it. And once it's set up, you can ask about your past from Claude Code, with no copying and pasting: when were you last in Lisbon, who was at the cabin that summer, what you said in that voice memo about the house.
- v0.13.0: A Simpler First Run
Setting Remember This up used to be six screens that told you what they needed one at a time, so you never knew how much was left. It's four screens now, and the first one tells you the whole list before you start. Plus a new Apple transcription option on recent Macs that needs no model download at all.
- v0.12.0: Write Your First Chapter
The biggest thing we've built so far: Remember This now attempts to write your life story — drafting a biography from your photos, places, people, and timeline, one focused chapter at a time, and asking you only the few questions it can't answer itself. Plus: answer its questions by voice, and a fix for a mic bug that was silently blocking recording.
The sooner you start, the more there is to work with.
Remember This reads the photos and voice memos you already have, so there is something in your archive on day one. It gets better every week you keep capturing.