Published June 30, 2026
For a while, EIDARA worked like any note system: I had to tell it what to remember. Open a conversation, say “save this,” move on. Useful, but it still required me to pause and decide.
That changed a few weeks ago. EIDARA grew three senses — it listens, it reads what I type, and it looks at what’s on my screen. I wrote about building them, and the off switch that keeps them honest, in a separate post. This one is about what actually changed once they had been running for a couple of weeks.
I have a keyboard shortcut. I hold it, I talk, I let go. The system transcribes what I said, drops it into wherever my cursor is, and quietly hands the text to the memory pipeline. If anything I said was a fact worth keeping, the system saves it. If it was a passing thought, it stays where it lands.
The friction collapsed from “open a note, type the thing” to “say the thing.” That changes how often I capture, which changes how much the system actually knows.
The system watches what I type across applications. Not to spy — the entire pipeline is local, nothing leaves my laptop — but to notice when I write something that sounds like a fact. If I’m chatting and I mention a name, a price, a deadline, a decision, the system can pull it out and remember it without me asking.
It’s selective. Short typing gets ignored. Sensitive contexts — password fields, banking sites, password managers — are blocked by design. What gets captured is what I would have written down anyway if I had a second free hand.
The newest one. The system can read what’s on my screen, identify what I’m looking at, and save the topic as a fact. Not the content — the topic. So it knows that I spent an hour today on a particular project, or that I was researching a vendor, or that a document went through review.
That sense has three confidentiality modes I can switch from the tray icon. Most of the time it runs in the relaxed mode. When I’m in something sensitive, one click pauses it. The intermediate mode keeps the keyboard sense but pauses the screen one. I decide what level fits the moment.
The visible difference is that I write notes less often. I just work. At the end of the day the system has captured more than I would have manually, and most of it is correctly classified into the right topic.
The invisible difference is bigger. EIDARA was always a system for what I told it. Now it’s a system for what’s going on around me. Those are different products, and the second one is more honest about how memory actually forms in a human — passive observation more than deliberate capture.
The senses aren’t perfect. They miss things, and they sometimes save things that aren’t useful. The cleanup layer takes care of most of that. What matters is that the system is no longer waiting for me to decide what’s important. It’s making the first pass on its own, and I review the result.
That’s the difference between recording what I tell it and paying attention.
— Javier
EIDARA v2 is free. SUPER DARA is what comes next.