You saw it earlier. Now you cannot remember where.
OGAD (Off Grid AI Desktop) can help you find it in activity captured on your Linux computer. After you explicitly enable Pro screen capture, local analysis builds a searchable record from sampled screens and available text. Search for a phrase or topic, then use Replay to inspect the saved context.
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Prepare the Linux beta first
Use the x64 Linux AppImage or deb package from beta 114, with Pro active. This guide covers the Pro code included in that build. Earlier Linux betas did not expose the same feature set.
For screen-based history, prepare the local processing models, review Settings > Setup & health, and allow the capture request your desktop session presents. On Wayland, the desktop portal and your screen or window selection affect what can be captured. Desktop accessibility data depends on what your session and apps expose. Start with a short session before relying on a full day's record.
Choose Resume capture in Replay or Settings > Capture only when you want screen history retained. Check the visible Capturing state. Use Pause capture to stop new screen history. Clipboard, Vault, and imported calendar records are separate workflows; they do not require you to keep screen capture on.
Search by the detail you still remember
You might remember an unusual phrase, a project name or an example from a page. Those clues can be enough to find a retained screen even when you cannot recall the app or window title.
Try “migration checklist,” a distinctive customer name or a sentence fragment from the material. A concrete clue is more useful than asking the app to recover everything you saw on a day.
The record starts when capture is enabled. It cannot search screens from before setup, paused periods or material that was never saved. Think of it as a growing record of captured moments, not a recording of every second.
Set up the record before you need it
Open Replay or the Capture settings section and explicitly choose Resume capture when you want to begin. Check the visible Capturing status. Use Pause capture when you want it to stop. Permission alone is not your capture choice.
Choose local processing if you want the analysis to stay on your Linux computer. A remote vision provider would change where captured images are sent. Download models and finish Pro activation before relying on the workflow without internet.
For a first check, open a non-sensitive document with a distinctive phrase. Use it normally, then return to OGAD after capture and processing have had time to save an observation.
Find the screen again
- Open Search and enter the phrase or topic you remember.
- Use the Sources list to narrow results to the relevant app or available source.
- Try Relevant, Recent or Match to change the ordering.
- Open a screen-history result. OGAD opens Replay around the saved moment.
- Inspect the frame and its surrounding context to check that it is the thing you meant.
If you remember the day more clearly than the words, open Replay and use its day arrows. Move through the saved frames to find the relevant screen. Search and Replay give you two ways into the same retained history.
A search result can be a meeting, chat or document rather than a screen. Those result types open their own source views. Read the result type before expecting a saved screenshot.
Pick up a task after an interruption
You return from a call and remember reviewing a proposal, but not which version was open. Search for a phrase from the proposal and inspect the saved frame. The window title and nearby context can help you find your place and decide what to open next.
That is the useful result of background capture: the record can already be there when you need it. After setup, you can work without stopping to save a note for every screen. Check the actual document before editing or replying, because the saved view may be older than its current contents.
Recover the context, not just the phrase
A frame can remind you which app was open, which document you were reviewing and what you were doing around that time. That context can help you return to the work even when the exact source is no longer open.
Use the visible title or other clues to reopen the current page or file in its original app. Replay is a saved view; it does not guarantee that the original document still exists or that a web page is unchanged.
If the search comes up empty
Try fewer words or a related term. Check another source filter and use Recent if you remember roughly when it happened. A local model's summary may use different words from your memory of the screen.
Then check capture status and retention. Paused capture, missing permissions, an unavailable model or a removed frame can leave a gap. If Replay says the capture file is missing, search cannot reconstruct that image from nothing.
Make your next useful discovery easier to find
Download OGAD for Linux, set up Pro and try capture with one non-sensitive work session. Search for a phrase afterward and inspect the saved frame. Build a record you can return to without writing a note for every screen.
This guide covers OGAD beta 0.0.55-beta.114. The release and build record identify the desktop version and its included Pro code. Setup details follow that code; they are not a device test.
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