Activity Record

Activity Record stores normalized local activity facts in:

~/.Arkloop/activity-record/activity.db

Use bounded SQL queries. Always include a time range or LIMIT.

Tables

activity_events

source_cursors

Incremental sync state per source. Diagnostics only.

activity_refs

Optional reference files.

Sources and Actions

chrome — Chromium Browser History

Covers Chrome, Chrome Canary, Chromium, Edge, Brave. Multi-profile.

safari — Safari History (macOS)

screentime — macOS Screen Time (knowledgeC.db)

shell — Shell Command History

Reads ~/.zsh_history and ~/.bash_history. Deduplicated by command hash.

codex — Claude Code Sessions

window — Active Window Tracking (daemon)

keyboard — Keystroke Counting (daemon)

mouse — Mouse Activity (daemon)

clipboard — Clipboard Changes (daemon)

ax — Screen Content via Accessibility Tree (daemon, macOS)

Captures visible text from the focused window by walking the macOS accessibility tree. No screen capture or OCR involved — zero WindowServer overhead.

Text content: full visible text from the focused window is stored in the text column. Content is deduplicated by SHA-256 hash — identical screens do not produce repeated events.

Browser URL: extracted via AXDocument attribute when the focused app is a browser. Available in the url column.

Excluded apps: password managers (1Password, Bitwarden, KeePassXC, LastPass, Dashlane, Keychain Access) and incognito/private browsing windows are skipped entirely.

audio — Microphone Transcription (daemon)

Transcribes microphone speech via an OpenAI-compatible API. Each segment passes an RMS gate, voice-activity detection, and music filtering before transcription, so only segments containing speech are stored.

Text content: the full transcript of each speech segment is stored in the text column. Overlapping words between consecutive segments are deduplicated.

Examples

Recent activity across all sources:

SELECT occurred_at, source, action, title, url
FROM activity_events
ORDER BY occurred_at DESC
LIMIT 50;

What apps were used today (Screen Time):

SELECT title AS app, COUNT(*) AS sessions,
       SUM(json_extract(metadata_json, '$.duration_sec')) AS total_sec
FROM activity_events
WHERE source = 'screentime' AND action = 'app_used'
  AND occurred_at >= datetime('now', '-1 day')
GROUP BY title ORDER BY total_sec DESC
LIMIT 20;

Recent browser searches:

SELECT occurred_at, title AS search_term, url
FROM activity_events
WHERE source = 'chrome' AND action = 'searched'
  AND occurred_at >= datetime('now', '-7 days')
ORDER BY occurred_at DESC
LIMIT 50;

Recent shell commands:

SELECT occurred_at, text AS command
FROM activity_events
WHERE source = 'shell' AND action = 'command'
ORDER BY occurred_at DESC
LIMIT 30;

Bluetooth device connections:

SELECT occurred_at, action, title AS device,
       json_extract(metadata_json, '$.duration_sec') AS duration
FROM activity_events
WHERE source = 'screentime' AND action LIKE 'bluetooth%'
ORDER BY occurred_at DESC;

Music playing history:

SELECT occurred_at, title,
       json_extract(metadata_json, '$.artist') AS artist,
       json_extract(metadata_json, '$.album') AS album
FROM activity_events
WHERE source = 'screentime' AND action = 'media_playing'
ORDER BY occurred_at DESC
LIMIT 20;

Window focus timeline:

SELECT occurred_at, app, window_title,
       json_extract(metadata_json, '$.duration_sec') AS sec
FROM activity_events
WHERE source = 'window' AND action = 'focused'
  AND occurred_at >= datetime('now', '-1 day')
ORDER BY occurred_at DESC
LIMIT 50;

Recent screen content (what the user is reading/doing):

SELECT occurred_at, app, window_title, url,
       substr(text, 1, 500) AS screen_text,
       json_extract(metadata_json, '$.element_count') AS elements
FROM activity_events
WHERE source = 'ax'
  AND occurred_at >= datetime('now', '-1 day')
ORDER BY occurred_at DESC
LIMIT 30;

Screen content for a specific app:

SELECT occurred_at, window_title, url,
       substr(text, 1, 800) AS screen_text
FROM activity_events
WHERE source = 'ax' AND app = 'Google Chrome'
  AND occurred_at >= datetime('now', '-4 hours')
ORDER BY occurred_at DESC
LIMIT 20;

Recent audio transcripts (meetings, conversations):

SELECT occurred_at,
       substr(text, 1, 500) AS transcript,
       json_extract(metadata_json, '$.duration_sec') AS dur
FROM activity_events
WHERE source = 'audio'
  AND occurred_at >= datetime('now', '-1 day')
ORDER BY occurred_at DESC
LIMIT 30;

Memory Rules

Write only durable context to memory_write:

• Stable preferences and habits.
• Ongoing projects and decisions.
• Important events with useful future context.
• Clear changes in workflow or priorities.

Do not write Notebook entries. Do not persist raw OCR, raw transcripts, app-switch logs, secrets, one-time codes, or unverified fragments.