Every great Claude response starts with context. Minimi listens across your Mac - docs, calls, messages, tabs - and gives Claude the full picture. No prompting. All on-device and private.
I've been living inside Claude for most of my workday, and the one thing that always frustrated me was having to re-explain myself every single session. "Here's what I'm working on. Here's what happened in my last meeting. Here's the email thread you need to know about."
Minimi fixes that. It sits quietly on my Mac, reading what I read, hearing what I hear - and then feeds all of that to Claude as live context. So when I open a new chat and ask "what should I follow up on from this morning?", Claude already knows. No briefing. No copy-paste. Just the answer.
A few things I love about Minimi:
1. On-device memory - your context never leaves your Mac (the vector DB lives locally). We benchmark at 54% on BEAM vs the previous SOTA's 36%.
2. MCP-native - one link, paste it into Claude's custom connector, done. No new app to live in.
3. Granular control - you pick which apps it can see. Pause anytime.
If you use Claude and you work on a Mac, this is a no-brainer install. Three steps and it just works.
the context bottleneck is real. most bad AI output i see is a missing-context problem, not a model problem, so this direction makes a lot of sense. the part id be curious about is signal vs noise. passively capturing everything across docs/calls/tabs is powerful, but the risk is feeding Claude confidently-irrelevant context. how you decide what's actually worth surfacing feels like the real moat here. on-device + private is a smart trust call too. nice work.
A lot of memory systems seem useful while a conversation is active, but the harder test is what happens after weeks of accumulated context.
How are you thinking about memory quality over time? Is the bigger challenge helping Claude retrieve more information, or helping it maintain an accurate picture of what's still true versus what's become outdated?
The "no re-explaining yourself" pain point is so real — I spend a chunk of every session giving Claude context it had yesterday.
Love the on-device angle too. Privacy-first local storage is the right call when your context includes work meetings and personal projects.
One question: any Windows roadmap? That's my main blocker for trying it today.
Wow. This is exactly what I need. Will come back and ask questions but excited to check this out!
Been using Shram for a while now and it is making my life a lot easier. Minimi is a crazy upgrade and i am loving it
Neat idea. Can you tell Minimi to skip certain apps it shouldn't capture context from?
Many people already try “memory” via manual notes or lightweight MCP memory servers. What’s the key product bet behind ambient capture across tabs/docs/messages/calls—and where does that approach win or lose versus a more intentional, user-curated memory workflow?
Congrats on the launch. Most memory tools that 'always listen' wave their hands at the delete path, so I went looking for it here. When I revoke an app or delete a memory, do the vectors already sitting in the local store actually go? That's the real privacy question I believe for something that's on by default
Question: will it bloat the claude memory & increase the tokens used over time?
Fr. Giving context to every LLM for the same thing I had it do yesterday and the day before is frustrating. About time someone built a plug-and-play memory layer and relieved me of the annoying ritual. Great work, team. Rooting for you.
Have been lucky to get early access to Minimi and my god it’s powerful! From getting random, small insights that I forgot from my meetings to tracking my work output to remembering things that I did 2 weeks ago. Minimi is like magic
The fun technical bit: it's all local-first. Your context gets embedded and stored on your Mac, retrieval runs locally, and Claude pulls it over a single MCP connector. Nothing leaves your device. I know because I built it :))
Honestly....I was so tired of giving my LLM context about everything I was working on 😣 My projects, stuff about myself, my choices, my working patterns, pasting screenshots from old chats, sharing the same docs again and again.
Minimi SOLVES ALL OF IT. No need to give any context to your LLM about what you're working on or your past conversations. It captures it all, everything on your screen, and keeps the data on your device, so it's completely safe and local. If you live inside your LLM, this is the upgrade you didn't know you needed.
Do give this superpower tool a try ⚡️
Nice product! The on-device, you-pick-what-it-sees approach is the part that I think makes this actually look really usable. I spend my time in the Claude ecosystem too (building governance tooling around skills/access), so the granular per-app control especially caught my eye. Quick question: when you pause it or revoke an app, does the context it already captured from that app stay in the local store, or get dropped?
Minimi is the most delightful part of my day. It has even made me a better, more thoughtful gifter haha 😛
SUPER stoked that others can now play around with it.
Here are some fun and work related things you can try doing!
Fun
"What should I get Jay for his birthday?" and it actually knows, because it remembers the offhand thing he wanted three weeks ago on a call.
"What was that restaurant someone raved about last month?" No idea who, no idea when. Minimi finds it.
"Recommend a movie for tonight" and the pick actually is awesome, because it knows what I've genuinely been into lately.
Work
"Draft a follow-up from my call with Niket" and it pulls exactly what we discussed.
"What did we decide about the UX copy?" answered in one line, across scattered Slack threads, docs, and calls.
"Catch me up on what I missed" after a long deep work session, so I walk back in already knowing where things stand.
Do try and let me know what you built <3
About Minimi on Product Hunt
“Your ambient memory for Claude”
Minimi launched on Product Hunt on June 5th, 2026 and earned 348 upvotes and 54 comments, earning #3 Product of the Day. Every great Claude response starts with context. Minimi listens across your Mac - docs, calls, messages, tabs - and gives Claude the full picture. No prompting. All on-device and private.
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