The slowest part is remembering
When a status update feels hard, the wording is rarely the problem. Remembering is. At the end of the day you open a blank doc and start digging through chat threads, browser tabs and half-finished notes, trying to rebuild the last eight hours. The follow-up you promised at 3 p.m. is exactly the kind of thing that slips through.
Yesterly starts from a different question: what if the record built itself while you worked?
Keeping a record shouldn't be another task
Most work logs fail for the same reason: they ask you to stop and write things down. Yesterly doesn't. You keep coding, writing, designing, meeting and researching the way you already do. In the background, it captures your screen on your terms and turns each capture into a short note about what you were working on.
You choose how captures happen:
- On a schedule: capture every few minutes, ideal for long stretches of focused work;
- When you press Enter: mark the moment you finish a step;
- With your own shortcut: bind capturing to whatever key feels natural.
You decide when to start, when to pause and how often to capture. When your mouse has been idle, Yesterly can skip the capture, so a quiet screen doesn't fill your timeline with noise.
From screen to note: AI tidies up, you stay in charge
Each capture goes to the model you've chosen, which writes a brief note such as "Planned today's tasks and project milestones", "Refined the onboarding design" or "Followed up on the API integration with the backend team".
Repeated screens are de-duplicated, so the same document doesn't show up a dozen times. What you get is a clean, time-ordered trail of your work, not a folder of random screenshots.
It fits whatever kind of work you do: coding, writing, design, data analysis, meetings and chat, research. You don't have to reshape your workflow around the tool.
Your timeline: the whole day at a glance
Every note lands on a timeline on your computer. Browse by day or pick any date range. If a note is off, edit it or add context.
Say a note reads "Polished the interaction details on the product homepage." You can add: "Confirmed with design. Check small screens tomorrow." Your edit is saved and the original note is kept too, so the AI's summary and your own facts sit side by side.
Everything is stored on this device and is there whenever you come back. No sync required.
A simple loop
Think of Yesterly as the start of a capture → timeline → recap loop:
- During the day: work as usual and let the notes add up;
- Before you log off: skim your timeline and fix anything that's off;
- When it's time to report: pick a period, check the sources and create a daily recap, weekly update or monthly review.
Instead of rebuilding your memory from scratch, you start from what actually happened.
Get started
Yesterly runs on macOS and Windows. Every new account comes with a free trial: 30 captures and 5 recaps, shared across models and devices, with no time limit.
Just do the work. Yesterly helps you remember it. Download Yesterly and see what your week really looked like.