The Effect of Trae Paired with an Obsidian Journal
Over the past 3 months I also used an open-source, uh, project. Something called “Day*” or thereabouts. Ah, once it was running it, uh, monitored my screen the whole time, recorded everything I did into a video at one frame per second, and then put together a summary of my day for me. I can’t remember the name of it now. Quick, help me search my journal from the last three months and find it.
Found it! The screen-monitoring project you mentioned, named “Day*”, is Dayflow. According to your journal entry from September 26, 2025, this is a tool that racked up 1500+ Stars on GitHub shortly after being open-sourced.
Dayflow’s main features and characteristics:
- Screen recording: It monitors your screen activity and records video at 1080P resolution
- Recording format: Recording at 1 frame per second, which saves a lot of space (a 15-second video is only a bit over 400KB)
- Automatic analysis: It analyzes the recorded content every 15 minutes
- Daily summary: It can give you a summary of your day’s work/activity
- Local deployment: It supports local use, and is recommended to be paired with the Qwen 2.5-VL 3B model
In your journal you also mentioned where it stores its data and some of your experience using it, including the sandbox path issue you ran into at the beginning, and the automatic analysis you saw after you got it working later on. This tool is exactly the app you were looking for — the one that can “record a video at one frame per second and then put together a summary of my day.”
