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Off by default. Switched on, Otto photographs the screen every 5 seconds, reads the text LOCALLY and keeps it for 7 days — it never even reads password managers, banking or login pages in the first place.

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Screen · The screen memory

Text, not an image — and never “now”

Two sentences stand above all five tools, verbatim from the source: what arrives is read-out TEXT, not an image — and the newest entry is almost never “now”, because reading happens on a beat.

The five tools

Search screen history
Keyword search over what was read — “the Amazon link with the dishwasher from yesterday”. At most 20 hits per query.
Look back
Asks by TIME instead of keyword — “what was I doing earlier?”. At most 20 sections, each with at most 4 window titles and 4 addresses.
Forget
Deletes the screen memory of the last hours or entirely — for good, with no trash.
View status
Says whether it is currently reading along, at what beat, how long things are kept and how much is stored.
Otto looks at the screen
On request, takes a PICTURE of every connected screen — the only one of the five that needs its own, one-time permission.
The screen card re-enacted Re-enacted card from the conversation: OCTOVO says it looked at the screen, names the capture, and reminds you that every outgoing action still needs your approval.

The beat and the retention

  • Off until you switch it on

    No prompt during setup — the default is “off”.

  • A look every 5 seconds

    That is how often it checks whether the screen has changed — unchanged content is not filed twice.

  • 7-day retention

    After that, an entry expires on its own. You can change the period in settings.

What it never even reads

Ten programs (1Password, Bitwarden, KeePass, LastPass, Dashlane, Enpass, keychain managers, Keychain Access, NordPass, Proton Pass) and sixteen word patterns in addresses (including “password”, “bank”, “paypal.com”, “2fa”) are hard-locked — the check happens BEFORE filing, not after, and you can add to this default but not remove from it.

Known gaps in this documentation build (as of 25 Sept 2026)

  • “Forget screen history” and “view capture status” run in the integration test, but without their own automated pass.
  • The actual screen look (bildschirm_ansehen) is only partly tested — a real screen capture via Electron does not run under the automated test suite.

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