Pieces

Pieces is a background desktop application that builds an artificial memory layer for daily work activity. It captures research, chats, emails, notes, and meetings chronologically to form a searchable timeline of what you have done. The tool is designed to help users recover decisions, resume work, and supply context to other AI assistants and tools. Data is stored on-device by default and comes with user-managed privacy controls.

• Forms memories every two seconds from applications running on your computer
• Creates a chronological timeline capturing research, chats, emails, notes, and meetings
• Allows scoping of prompts by time, source, or topic to search past work
• Generates standup updates, morning briefs, meeting prep, and day recaps instantly
• Captures data from what is seen on screen, copied to the clipboard, and heard in meetings
• Includes user controls to pause capture, disable specific apps and websites, or delete specific data
• Provides a Model Context Protocol server to carry history into Claude, Cursor, Codex, and other assistants

Pros

• Strong local-first data storage that keeps memories directly on the user machine by default
• Granular privacy controls allowing users to exclude specific apps, websites, times, or capture methods like vision and audio
• Broad integration coverage across a wide variety of browsers, email clients, chat tools, design apps, and code editors
• Immediate generation of summaries and status updates from actual work context rather than manual entry

Cons

• Audio capture for meetings and conversations is explicitly opt-in only
• Enterprise features require bringing your own API keys and setting organizational policies
• Specific hardware resource requirements for running background vision and memory capture continuously are not published
• Specific paid tier pricing figures are not listed on the page

Pieces fits individual professionals, researchers, developers, and teams who want to automatically record and query their daily computer activity across multiple applications. It is well-suited for users who need to compile scattered research, generate routine updates from meeting notes, or bring deep historical context into AI coding tools and chat assistants. It is a poor fit for organizations that prohibit background screen and audio capture or those seeking a purely cloud-hosted memory service without local-first storage.

The listing and website state that the product is downloadable for free, and mention enterprise options alongside teams and individual use. Specific tier names beyond enterprise, exact pricing figures, and cost thresholds are not published on the page.

Unlike traditional note-taking apps or manual bookmark managers, Pieces runs in the background every two seconds to passively capture what you see, copy, and hear across your existing software. Rather than requiring active data entry, it builds a chronological timeline automatically from your normal workflows. It also differs from standard search tools by exposing a Model Context Protocol server that plugs your complete work history directly into AI assistants like Claude and Cursor.

Gmail, Outlook, Chrome, Arc, Safari, Slack, Teams, Google Chat, Discord, Google Meet, Zoom, Microsoft Teams, Google Docs, Notion, Figma, Claude, ChatGPT, Copilot, Codex, Perplexity, Cursor, VS Code, JetBrains, Xcode, Antigravity, and MCP-ready assistants.