TRACE / WORK TRACKER

Your copies are evidence of work

Not another clipboard manager — a work tracker that lives inside one. On the edge of your screen, the shelf collects what you copy. Underneath it, Trace watches the apps and windows you work in, and cuts that stream into tasks.

How it works 工作原理

3 steps
01 / OBSERVE

Observe

A 600 ms clipboard watcher and a foreground-window listener feed one event stream — app switches, window titles, copies. No capture ritual: the shelf already exists.

02 / SEGMENT

Segment

During silences, the clusterer cuts the stream into activities. Each segment becomes a candidate task card: a title, a confidence score, the apps and windows involved, the clips it carries.

03 / ADOPT

Adopt

Accept opens the guided editor; a candidate that matches an existing task merges instead. Every adopted task keeps its windows, apps and clips — one click jumps back to where the work happened.

Features 核心

6 cards
THE HUB

The task is the hub

Not the clipboard item — the task. It collects the windows you worked in (one click jumps back), the apps involved, and the clips you explicitly bind. Its state machine tracks progress honestly: one running task at a time, every transition annotated with who made it and why.

CONFIDENCE

Segments with confidence

Candidate tasks carry a confidence score. Matching an existing task merges instead of duplicating; ignoring writes a blocklist signature so the same suggestion never returns.

AI OPTIONAL

AI, an optional pass

The pipeline runs on deterministic clustering alone. LLM annotation is a separate pass that runs only when you configure a provider — and every suggestion cites what it saw and why.

THE SHELF

The zero-friction shelf

Hover to open — a 3px hysteresis zone with a 120 ms dwell; fullscreen apps suppress the trigger automatically. Native OLE drag-out, 30 languages, 5 themes.

PRIVACY

Privacy by design

Three privacy planes — capture, AI, memory — enforced by a pure gate module. Password managers and dictation tools are never captured. No telemetry, no auto-update.

Quick Start 快速开始

3 steps
01

Prerequisites

Windows 10/11 and Node.js 18+.

Windows 10 / 11
02

Run from source

If the first launch misses native binaries, approve the postinstall scripts and retry: npm approve-scripts electron esbuild koffi better-sqlite3 node-llama-cpp

git clone https://github.com/PaRr0tBoY/Trace.git cd Trace npm install npm run dev
03

Verify, test, package

509 unit tests, a Windows NSIS installer, and an MSIX for the Microsoft Store.

npm run typecheck npm test npm run package

Watch your work take shape

Open-source. Free. No telemetry. No accounts. Just a work tracker that lives in your clipboard.