Time Turner: go back to your work without paying to remember it

Suppose you close a browser tab after finding the answer to a problem. Two meetings later, you need it again. You remember a phrase from the page, but the title means nothing and your browser history has hundreds of entries.

Time Turner gives you a way back. It saves snapshots of your screen on your Mac, reads the text locally, and lets you search by phrase, app, or date. Find the moment and see what you were looking at.

Your screen deserves that level of privacy. A single capture can contain a customer’s financials alongside a private conversation. Building a searchable history of that material should start with keeping it on your own machine.

And you shouldn’t need a subscription to search the history you’ve already captured.

Muesli’s local screen capture and search are free. You choose how long to keep screenshots and searchable text, with storage limits you control. Time Turner starts off; you enable it, exclude apps, and pause capture whenever you need to.

A few places it earns its keep:

• Recover a lost research tab. Search a phrase you remember from a pricing page or technical document, then inspect the captured page.
• Revisit a shared screen. Find a captured slide or diagram from a Google Meet presentation when the meeting transcript alone doesn’t explain what someone meant.
• Pick up an interrupted debugging session. Browse the terminal error and documentation you had open before another task pulled you away.
• Give your agent a starting point. Ask Codex or Claude Code to read a specific window of your history through muesli-cli, alongside relevant meeting notes, and help you resume work.

Time Turner saves samples, so it won’t preserve every fleeting frame.

Screenpipe and Coast’s local preview offer similar ways to keep desktop context locally. Littlebird also offers searchable work memory on Mac, drawing on your screen, meetings, and connected apps. Screenpipe currently puts full searchable history on a paid plan.

Our position is simple: your captured history belongs on your Mac, and searching it shouldn’t require a subscription. Muesli brings that history together with meeting transcripts, dictation, and Vidshots, ready for you or your agent to use.

We’re building Muesli to be the ultimate context capture app for your Mac. Time Turner keeps what you saw; meeting transcription keeps what people said. Dictation captures your thoughts, while Vidshots lets you record a problem and explain it in your own words. Your agent can retrieve that context when you ask for help.

If you request an AI recap or give context to a hosted agent, the selected provider may receive that material. Local capture and search work without that step.

Download Muesli, turn on Time Turner, and choose what you want your Mac to remember. Your work already happened. You should be able to find it again.