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LifeTrace Introduction ​

What is LifeTrace? ​

LifeTrace is an AI-powered intelligent life recording system that helps users automatically manage their personal task context. Through automatic screenshot capture, OCR text recognition, and multimodal search technologies, LifeTrace provides powerful life trajectory tracking capabilities for recording, organizing, and retrieving daily activities.

Core Features ​

🖥️ Automatic Screenshot Recording ​

  • Timed automatic screen capture to record user activities
  • Continuously record daily activity traces
  • No manual operation required, fully automatic

📝 Intelligent OCR Recognition ​

  • Uses RapidOCR to extract text content from screenshots
  • Automatically extract text information from screenshots
  • Structured storage for easy retrieval
  • Text Search: Quickly find specific text content
  • Semantic Search: Understand search intent for intelligent matching
  • Image Search: Support image-based similarity search
  • Vector Retrieval: AI-powered contextual understanding

🗄️ Vector Database ​

  • Efficient vector storage and retrieval based on ChromaDB
  • High-performance storage and retrieval
  • Low latency response

🌐 Web API Service ​

  • Provides complete RESTful API interfaces
  • Easy integration with various frontend frameworks
  • Support custom development

🎨 Frontend Integration ​

  • Provide frontend examples and components
  • Quickly build personalized interfaces
  • Easy to extend and customize

Technical Architecture ​

LifeTrace adopts a modern frontend-backend separation architecture:

  • Backend: Python FastAPI, responsible for screenshots, OCR processing, vector storage and retrieval
  • Database: ChromaDB vector database for efficient semantic search
  • OCR Engine: RapidOCR for high-performance text extraction
  • Multimodal Services: Support text, image, and semantic search
  • Frontend: React-based web application with real-time updates

Application Scenarios ​

  • 📚 Learning Records: Automatically record learning process for easy review and revision
  • 💼 Work Tracing: Track work content and quickly find historical records
  • 🔎 Information Retrieval: Quickly find past content through keywords, semantics, or images
  • 📊 Time Management: Analyze time usage patterns to optimize efficiency
  • 🎨 Creative Work: Track creative processes and inspiration sources
  • 🔬 Research: Organize research materials and references automatically

📋 TODO & Roadmap ​

🚀 High Priority ​

  • ☐ User Experience Improvements
    • ☐ Implement keyboard shortcuts for power users
    • ☐ Create interactive onboarding tutorial

💡 Future Ideas ​

  • ☐ Mobile & Cross-Platform
    • ☐ Develop mobile companion app
    • ☐ Add tablet-optimized interface
    • ☐ Create web-based version

✅ Recently Completed ​

  • ☑ Core Infrastructure - Basic screenshot recording and OCR functionality

Project Repository ​

Open Source License ​

Copyright © 2024 LifeTrace.org

The content of this repository is bound by the following licenses:

  • The computer software is licensed under the Apache License 2.0
  • The learning resources in the /doc directory including their subdirectories are copyright © 2024 LifeTrace.org

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0. You may obtain a copy of the License at http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

Contributing ​

The LifeTrace community is possible thanks to thousands of kind volunteers like you. We welcome all contributions to the community and are excited to welcome you aboard.

How to contribute:

  1. 🍴 Fork the project - Create your own copy of the repository
  2. 🌿 Create a feature branch - git checkout -b feature/amazing-feature
  3. 💾 Commit your changes - git commit -m 'Add some amazing feature'
  4. 📤 Push to the branch - git push origin feature/amazing-feature
  5. 🔄 Create a Pull Request - Submit your changes for review

Areas where you can contribute:

  • 🐛 Bug Reports - Help us identify and fix issues
  • 💡 Feature Requests - Suggest new functionality
  • 📝 Documentation - Improve guides and tutorials
  • 🧪 Testing - Write tests and improve coverage
  • 🎨 UI/UX - Enhance the user interface
  • 🔧 Code - Implement new features and improvements

We appreciate all contributions, no matter how small! 🙏