@lxfater: Codex has a feature I think is great but nobody uses – Chronicle. Once enabled, Codex continuously takes screenshots of your screen and gains massive context. The benefit of massive context is that you don't need to feed it redundant information. Its answers and assistance become more personalized, and it gets better the more you use it.
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Codex's Chronicle feature, once enabled, continuously screenshots your screen, providing massive context, making answers more personalized and easier to use over time.
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Codex has a feature I think is great but no one seems to be using
It’s called Chronicle. Once enabled, Codex continuously takes screenshots of your screen, giving it massive context.
With that massive context, you don’t need to feed it redundant information. Its answers and assistance become more personalized—the more you use it, the better it gets. https://t.co/w4PyHzhOBu
OpenAI Developers (@OpenAIDevs): Last week, we released a preview of memories in Codex.
Today, we’re expanding the experiment with Chronicle, which improves memories using recent screen context.
Now, Codex can help with what you’ve been working on without you restating context.
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