[soruly]

I take screenshots of my computer screen every minute since 2008. I've a dedicated 2TB hdd storing these archives compressed with 7z It takes just about 100-200MB/day so it's quite easy to store.

These archives saved me from data loss a few times (due to powerloss, or bad mistakes). I just browse through the archive to look for the screenshot where I was coding to recover them by typing it again.

this is the screenshot tool I use https://github.com/soruly/TimeSnap

[avnigo]

I'm glad you found something that works for you, and I don't mean to dissuade you even if I could, but to me that feels like an antipattern if you only use it for typed text.

Consider that with a text editor like Vim, for example, you can "time travel" [0] through your file's edits, or even have undo branches/trees [1][2] available per file. That saves you the trouble of having to transcribe text from screenshots, and also barely uses any storage space.

Plain text is also highly more portable and more likely to be recoverable in case of drive failure or file corruption.

Additionally, or alternatively, you could try any sort of manual versioning system or background automatic backup solution that keeps versions of files as you work on them.

[0]: https://vimtricks.com/p/vimtrick-time-travel-in-vim/

[1]: https://neovim.io/doc/user/undo.html#undo-tree

[2]: https://github.com/simnalamburt/vim-mundo

[chaostheory]

That’s impressive.

I would also like this, but what worries me is privacy. There’s already so little that it makes me wonder whether this is degrade it even faster.