🦥 My Screenshots Folder Was a To-Do List That Never Reminded Me. So I Hired a Sloth.
This is a submission for the Hacktoberfest Open-Source AI Challenge Week 3: Slow and Steady Open your Desktop. Go on, I'll wait. Chances are it's a graveyard of files called Screenshot 2026-10-21 at 01.58.44.png . Hundreds of them. Most have never been opened twice. Look closer and a pattern appears. We almost never take a screenshot to keep something. We take it to do something later: a friend's…
This article discusses how a developer found their Desktop filled with screenshots that were never opened or used, and instead served as a to-do list. The developer created a program called slothlens, which uses an AI model to process and prioritize these screenshots. The AI reads the screenshots and writes actual to-do lists in the mornings, identifying sensitive information to be removed.
This system helps users by eliminating the need to sift through screenshot files manually and ensuring sensitive data is removed. The program is designed to be slow on purpose and only operates at night, minimizing battery drain and not requiring any cloud storage or external accounts.
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