Automatic work journal for Windows

Your week is
already written up.

The timesheet is due. The standup is in ten minutes. Your manager wants the weekly update, and Tuesday is already a blur. KeptInFlow writes each day down while you work: what you finished, what is still going, what got stuck. Press Alt+Shift+J and copy it.

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Journal · Tue 19 Aug
9:12am to 6:40pm·5 stretches

Shipped the pricing page, then chased a checkout bug.

Done
Pricing page live, refund wording rewritten.
Still going
Checkout fails on the second retry.
Stuck
Waiting on the payment provider to answer.
Pricing page Ship review away Checkout bug Email

Nothing was started, tagged or typed. Switch it on once and the day writes itself.

Keeping a work journal is one door of

Runs on your PC, not in a tab · no account · pay once

The day you cannot remember

Tuesday, in plain words.

A day comes back cut into stretches of work, not hours in an app. Each stretch gets a name, a few lines on what changed, and where it got to. Open the day and all of that is already there.

Alt+Shift+J

Written before you ask for it

Days write themselves up in the background. There is no timer to start, nothing to tag, and nothing to fill in at six o'clock when you have already forgotten the morning.

Done · Still going · Stuck

Three lines you can paste

Every day opens with what finished, what is mid-flight, and what is stuck. One button copies the whole write-up as text, ready for a standup or a review.

named by the work

Named by the job, not the app

A stretch is called "Fixing meeting import dates". It is never "4 hours in Chrome", which is the part no timesheet, chart or browser history has ever been able to tell you.

click any line

Every line has receipts

Click a stretch for the windows it covered, the things you copied during it, the snips you took, and the words that were actually on screen. Check it in seconds instead of trusting it.

Checkout bug · 2:10pm to 4:35pm

Traced the failed checkouts to a timeout on the retry. Reproduced it with a test card, then narrowed it to the second attempt rather than the first.

  • Reproduced the failure with a test card
  • Found the retry firing twice
  • Opened a ticket with the provider

Where it got to: fix drafted, waiting on the provider.

4 windows 12 things you copied 2 snips Screen text

A write-up you can check is worth something. One you cannot is a guess.

The status update nobody wants to write

Then the week does the same.

Zoom out and the week and the month open with a write-up of their own: what you finished, the threads that kept coming back, and what is still going. One click from a standup, a status email, or a self-review.

Done this week

A list of what you actually finished

Not a chart of hours. The things that landed, in a list. Every bullet is one click from the day it happened, so you can check it before you send it to anyone.

Ran through it

The threads that kept coming back

Work that spanned more than one day gets named and gathered, with a chip for each day it ran on. This is the answer to "where did the week actually go".

Still open

Loose ends follow you

Anything a day leaves unfinished waits on your latest day under Still open until you tick it off. Nothing quietly falls off the end of a Friday.

Copy

Out as plain text, in one click

The whole write-up copies as text you can paste into Slack, an email, a review form, or the box your timesheet tool insists on. No export, no format to pick.

Journal · Week of 17 Aug

Done this week

Copy

Pricing shipped, checkout retries fixed, three days on the importer.

  • Pricing page liveTue
  • Checkout retry fix mergedWed
  • Importer handles the new date formatFri

Ran through it

  • Meeting importer MonWedFri
  • Checkout retries TueWed

Still going

Provider ticket on the checkout timeout.

Every bullet, thread and day chip opens the stretch it came from.

When the summary is not enough

Drag across an afternoon and ask.

A write-up is the shape of the day. Sometimes you need the thing itself: the error you saw, the figure in the spreadsheet, the sentence you deleted. Select any span of the timeline and ask about it, or search everything you have ever had on screen.

drag a span

Ask about any slice of time

Drag across the timeline and ask what happened then. It reads the whole span rather than a handful of keyword hits, so "what did I decide in that hour" is a fair question.

Narrow to apps

Or about just one app

Ask how long that spreadsheet really took, or what happened in the browser and nowhere else. Useful when one client lives in one tool.

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Search everything you saw

Find a moment by the exact words that were on the screen, or by what they were about: "error about permissions" finds the stack trace you never copied.

Screen text

Read the actual words back

Open the text that was on screen for any span and copy it out. The number you did not write down is still there.

Journal · Tue 19 Aug
2:10pm to 4:35pm
what was that checkout error?

A gateway timeout in the payments dashboard at 3:04pm, on the retry rather than the first attempt. The workaround went into Slack at 3:22. screen snip

The answer points at the moments it came from, so you can look for yourself.

The obvious question

This one reports to you.

A record of your day is only worth having if it is yours. There is no account, no team dashboard, no admin view, and nobody on the other end of it. It is switched off the day you install, and you decide when it starts.

off at install

You turn it on, not us

Screen Memory, the part that keeps the record, ships switched off. Nothing is written down until you say so, and one click in the main window stops it again.

stays on this PC

The record lives in a folder

Your days sit on your own machine. There is no server holding them, no account to sign in to, and no sync you have to opt out of.

never these apps

Name what it must never see

Password managers are excluded out of the box. Add any other app, or any window title, and capture stops while that is in front of you.

2 GB · 90 days

It clears up after itself

It keeps 90 days and 2 GB by default, whichever runs out first, then drops the oldest. Both numbers are yours to change, and one button in Settings erases the lot.

Read what it watches: every feature that reads anything, what it reads, whether it leaves your PC, and whether it is on the day you install.

The honest version

You have tried a time tracker.

Time trackers answer "where did the hours go" with a bar chart of app names. That is not the question your manager asked, and it is not what you need at five o'clock on a Friday. Here is where this sits next to one.

A time trackerKeptInFlow
What you get back Hours against app names. "4h 12m in Chrome, 51m in Slack" The work, named and written up. "Fixing meeting import dates", and what changed
What you have to do Start a timer, or go back and tag the blocks afterwards Nothing. The day is written by the time you open it
Checking a claim You trust the chart, or you go and look it up again Click any line for the windows, the text and the snips behind it
Where it lives An account on their servers, billed by the seat A folder on your PC. There is no account to sign in to
Price Around $9 to $15 a month, for as long as you keep using it $59 once, and it does eight other jobs as well

The trade is real, so here it is. KeptInFlow is Windows 10 and 11 only. It can only write up the days it was running for, so the week before you installed it stays blank. Writing a day up costs pennies of AI, and that day's text goes to whichever model you point it at; point it at one running on your own PC and nothing leaves the machine. It is not a timesheet either: it writes down what happened, and you still decide what counts and what to bill. And it only knows the screen, so a phone call, a corridor conversation and an hour at a whiteboard all show up as time away.

The journal is one feature of the app

The rest of what you just bought.

KeptInFlow is a single Windows app for keeping and reusing everything that goes through your screen. Your day writing itself down is one door. These are the others, all in the one license.

meetings

Record calls with no bot

Teams, Zoom, Meet, and Slack huddles recorded from your own PC, transcribed with the speakers told apart, summarized, and searchable later. Nothing joins the meeting.

capture

Snip, OCR, annotate, record

Precise screen capture with on-device OCR, annotation and redaction, scrolling capture, and screen recording you can edit in place. Every capture stays searchable by the words that were on it.

Alt+V

Clipboard manager and dictation

Alt+Tab for your clipboard, plus system-wide dictation that can run entirely on this PC with a free downloaded model, so your voice never leaves the machine.

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Text expansion and AI in every app

Abbreviations that expand anywhere you type, a question answered mid-sentence, selected text edited by describing the change, and a command palette for the whole PC.

See the whole app on the home page, or start with capture and OCR, dictation, or codes and autofill.

No subscription required

Pay once. Own it.

Try every feature free for 14 days. No card to start.

App forever. Updates for 1 year. Keep the last version you got if you don't renew. This is not a stealth subscription.

Free trial

14 days

  • Every feature, no limits
  • The journal, screen search, capture and meetings all included
  • 1,000 free AI actions included, so days write themselves with no key of your own
  • No card up front. Nothing to cancel.
14-day free trial, every feature

License

$99 $59 one-time

Founding price for the first 100 · 1 year of updates included

  • Own it forever, no subscription
  • Journal, capture, meetings, clipboard, dictation, expansion, and AI in one app
  • Renew updates later for $29/yr, or don't, and keep what you have
  • 30-day refund, no questions asked
  • $229 lifetime-updates option
Buy KeptInFlow, $59

$59 for the first 100 buyers, then $79 for the next 200, then $99. Each step ends when it sells out, not on a timer.

Want every future update instead of one year? Lifetime updates, $229. Both are a single payment, and both come with the 30-day refund.

Before you ask

Questions, answered.

Do I have to do anything each day?

No. Turn it on once and days write themselves in the background, today's kept up to date as it goes on. There is no timer to start, no project to pick, and nothing waiting for you at six o'clock. If a late session changes the picture, "Summarize this day" writes it again.

Is this spying on me?

It runs for you and reports to nobody. There is no account, no team plan, and no admin view, because none of those exist in the product. It is off when you install it. Password managers are excluded out of the box, you can name any other app or window title it must never capture, and the main window always shows what is running with one click to stop it.

Could my employer read it?

Not through us. Nothing is uploaded, no server holds a copy, and there is no account for anyone to be given access to. What sits on a work PC is between you and whoever manages that PC, the same as every other file on it. If that is a concern, keep the record on a machine that is yours.

What does it cost to run?

Writing a day up costs pennies of AI. The trial includes 1,000 free AI actions, unlocked by the email you enter in setup, so you can watch a week write itself before deciding. After that it runs on an API key of your own from any of the usual providers, billed by them, or on the optional $12/month plan. Point it at a model running on your own PC and it costs nothing and sends nothing.

How much disk does it use?

90 days and 2 GB by default, whichever runs out first, then the oldest goes. Both are yours to change in Settings, older pictures are thinned before they are dropped, and "Erase all history" clears everything it has kept.

Can it write up last week?

Only the days it was running for. It has no way of knowing about a day it did not see, so the honest answer is to turn it on the day you want the record to start. Tomorrow's Friday panic is the one it can do something about.

Is it accurate enough to bill from?

It is written from what was actually in front of you, and every line opens onto the windows, text and snips behind it, so checking a stretch takes seconds instead of faith. Treat it as the record, not the invoice: it tells you what happened, and you still decide what counts. Time you spent away from the screen shows as time away, because that is the truth of what it saw.

What happened to the Mac app that did this?

Rewind, the app most people mean, was bought by Meta at the start of December 2025, and its screen recording was switched off on the 19th of that month. That is the risk when your record of your own work lives inside somebody else's service. KeptInFlow keeps yours in a folder on your PC, and the copy you bought carries on running whatever happens next.

Is it a subscription?

No. It is a one-time license: $59 at the founding price, $99 at full price, with a year of updates included. Renewing updates later costs $29/yr and is optional. There is an optional $12/month AI Included plan for people who would rather not manage an API key, and you never need it to use the app you bought.

Stop trying to remember Tuesday.

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