The problem
Every developer has ten projects sitting in their Documents folder. Reopen one after two weeks and you ask yourself:
- What was I working on?
- What was blocking me?
- Did I leave a stash somewhere?
- Is there uncommitted work I forgot about?
Git tells you what changed. It doesn't tell you what you were thinking.
The idea
FlowRecall keeps a tiny context note per project, with three fields:
- Goal: what I'm trying to achieve
- Blocker: what's in the way
- Next action: the very next thing to do
Open the app in the morning and in a few seconds you see which project needs you first, and why.
Smart Git alerts
FlowRecall also watches your repositories and warns you about:
- a forgotten stash (older than a threshold you choose)
- uncommitted WIP that has been sitting there too long
- a possibly outdated note (the code moved on, the note didn't)
How it's built
- Java 21 + Swing
- SQLite for local storage: no account, no cloud
- Packaged as a Snap with strict confinement
The packaging was the most surprising part. Shipping a Swing app as a strictly confined Snap (bundled JRE, bundled git, no access to hidden folders) took more time than some features. I might write about that next.
Try it
sudo snap install flowrecall
- Snap Store: https://snapcraft.io/flowrecall
- Screenshots and download: https://goldman-raf.itch.io/flowrecall
It's version 1.0, so I'd love your feedback:
- Does the goal / blocker / next action format make sense to you?
- What other alerts would be useful?
- Would you want it on other platforms?
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