Suits developers and other knowledge workers who report on their work in tickets and standups; you should be comfortable with continuous screen capture and connecting an AI provider.

What can you build with meridian?

Generate a standup each morning from what you actually did the day before. Draft Jira worklog updates and review them before posting. Look back at what you were working on on a given day months ago. Find out why a task took five days when the estimate was two. Check where your hours go across a week.

Meridiona /

meridian

Desktop app that records your screen activity and writes your work journal and tickets

406 stars
16 stars since 3 Oct
Rust
Updated 16 days ago
Beginner friendly
Productivity & personal

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Most people can't say exactly what they did last Tuesday, and writing standups or ticket updates by memory is slow and often wrong. Meridian runs in the background, captures screen activity, and rebuilds each day as a timeline you can scrub back through.

At the end of the day it summarises what you finished and what pulled you off plan. It also drafts a standup and a worklog update for your tickets. You review the draft and approve it before anything is posted to Jira.

Your activity is stored in one encrypted database on your own machine. Analysis goes through whichever AI provider you connect, and only what a summary needs is sent. The app is written in Rust with a Tauri tray, and the README names macOS on Apple Silicon and Windows 10/11 as the supported platforms.

What it does

Day reconstruction
Rebuilds your day from screen activity so you can scrub back through it like a recording.
Daily summary
Lists what you got done, what pulled you off plan, and a standup ready to paste into Jira.
Drafted worklog updates
Writes the worklog update and ticket text, then waits for your approval before posting to Jira.
Searchable history
Saves every day, so you can look up what you worked on months ago or see where an estimate went wrong.
Local, encrypted storage
Keeps activity in an encrypted database on your machine and prunes older capture after 30 days. Diagnostics are opt-out.

What you could build

Generate a standup each morning from what you actually did the day before.
Draft Jira worklog updates and review them before posting.
Look back at what you were working on on a given day months ago.
Find out why a task took five days when the estimate was two.
Check where your hours go across a week.

Get started

Most people can download the app from the project's website and install it. To build from source, you need Rust, Node 20+ and bun: clone the repo, copy the example env file, run the install script, then start the dev script, which opens the daemon and the tray in watch mode.

git clone https://github.com/Meridiona/meridian

cp .env.example .env

bash install-dev.sh

Commands are copied from the project's README. Read it on GitHub for the full setup.