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Lifeslice
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wanderingstan / Lifeslice

Lifeslice

Automatically take webcam pics, screenshot, and other metrics throughout the day.

3Distinct people
3Mentions
0Explicit recommenders
90GitHub stars
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What it is

Automatically take webcam pics, screenshot, and other metrics throughout the day.

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Where it is used

No documented product use has been verified yet.

What people are saying

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 5:04:57 PM UTC.

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Mentions over time

HN mentions by year3 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2013-01-08 04:48:19 UTC to 2022-09-07 18:02:07 UTC.

0122013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments20132014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments20172018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments2022

Counts come from the repository’s dated source evidence. Index cutoff: 2026-11-02 08:16:59 UTC.

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PeriodStart (UTC)End (exclusive, UTC)MentionsSubmissionsComments
20132013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20142014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20152015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20162016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20172017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20182018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20192019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20202020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20212021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20222022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC202

What Hacker News says

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Take more screenshots https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32215277 20220724 > record my screen with OBS (https://obsproject.com/) >> 1080p in 10fps might be enough and it won't take ridiculous amount of space (ffmpeg de-dupe afterward: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32215277#32223240) -- > The space requirements can be very low capturing something like writing code (ffmpeg low fps: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32215277#32235012) -- > (Mac shell command & AppleScript: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32215277#32219314) -- Other OSS recommendations (there are a couple good offline Mac software recommendations as well): https://getsharex.com - Windows > You can also configure sharex to run tesseract ocr locally on the images https://github.com/soruly/TimeSnap - Windows, archived https://github.com/wanderingstan/Lifeslice -
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In Tell HN: Otter.ai bot recording meetings without consent
Yes, I have ten years of screenshots (and webcam shots) at half hour intervals from having LifeSlice: Source:https://github.com/wanderingstan/Lifeslice Download page: http://wanderingstan.github.io/Lifeslice/ I developed it as an early Quantified Self tool primarily for the Webcam shots, but also have been saved on more than one occasion by having screenshots of work that would otherwise be lost. Edit: the first version was just a shell script, which if you want a starting point to modify: https://github.com/wanderingstan/Lifeslice/blob/master/1.0-S...
In Take more screenshots

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