[binarybard]

Been working on Forvard https://forvard.org — a tiny desktop app to help people remember what they actually did at work.

It’s offline-first and totally local (no cloud, no tracking). You just drop in your accomplishments, metrics, or files as you go, and later it helps you summarize them (ML model that runs locally) for performance reviews, promotions, or interviews.

Basically built it because I got tired of trying to reconstruct a year’s worth of work from Slack and Jira the night before review time.

It’s a one-time $0.99 download for macOS, Windows, and Linux.

Curious if others have tried building similar “career memory” tools or have thoughts on what’s missing.

Would love feedback from people who’ve struggled to keep track of their work accomplishments or prep for performance reviews!

[mamsouuu]

Love the idea, absolutely can relate (forget even overnight sometimes)! How does Forvard make it easy to retrieve the entries you're looking for when you have plenty and time has passed?

[binarybard]

Right now you can retrieve older entries in couple of ways:

1. filter via tags , one has to manually tag the entries though.

2. filter by company -- maybe way too broad based

3. specific word search.

4. filter by date range -- probably this + tags should help one find those entries which happened last quarter etc

Open to considering other ideas! So glad to see someone being excited about this!!