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minecontext
Desktop app that screenshots your screen and generates summaries and to-dos
- Stars
- 5.5k
- License
- Apache-2.0
- Last commit
- May 2026
- Last release
- Jan 2026
- Language
- Python
5,182 on 21 Apr 20265,547 on 10 Nov 2026
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Overview
MineContext is an Electron desktop app with a Python FastAPI backend that captures periodic screenshots, interprets them with a vision-language model, and stores the results in SQLite and ChromaDB. It generates daily and weekly summaries, to-dos and activity records in the background, and offers chat over the collected context. Models come from Doubao, OpenAI, or any OpenAI-compatible endpoint, including local ones such as LM Studio.
Who it is for: Knowledge workers wanting automatic screen-based activity summaries and to-dos
Strengths
- Data stored locally by default; works with any OpenAI-compatible local model endpoint
- Installers for macOS (.dmg) and Windows (.exe); macOS builds are Apple-notarized
- Backend debug page shows token usage and lets you edit task intervals and system prompts
- Backend runs standalone via `uv run opencontext start` with a YAML config
Weaknesses
- Only screenshots and note editing are marked done; file upload, link upload, meetings are planned
- Needs a vision-language model and an embedding model; recommended setup uses Doubao cloud API
- Screenshots are sent to the configured model provider unless a local model is used
- First run installs the backend environment, taking about two minutes
What it needs
- Needs SQLite, ChromaDB, uv, Doubao, OpenAI or OpenAI-compatible API
- Models: Doubao, OpenAI, OpenAI-compatible local models (LM Studio)
- port 1733
Quick answers
Is minecontext open source?
Yes. Its code is on GitHub under the Apache-2.0 license.
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