Guide

1. Getting started

Download the app, open it, sign in with Google, and pick one folder you want remembered. That is all.

• The folder stays exactly as it is — Octorium creates nothing inside it.
• Records live outside the folder, in Octorium’s own storage on this computer.
• Moved the folder somewhere else? The app says so, you point it at the new place, and the history follows.

2. Recording happens on its own

Work and save the way you always do, in the apps you always use. When things go quiet for a couple of minutes, Octorium records the folder as it stands.

Just before it does, the status line says a record is coming. It informs rather than asks — there is nothing to save and no button owed.

3. Reading the timeline

Recorded moments stack into a timeline. Each entry carries one sentence about what changed — "Added 2 slides", in the language of the content, not of file names.

The sentence is written by AI, and when it cannot be (offline, over quota) a mechanical description of the changed files always remains. The timeline never goes blank.

Search digs through the timeline’s words — file names, bookmarks, descriptions. Try typing "client feedback".

4. Bookmark the moments that mattered

"That was the first submission" is something you learn afterwards. So a bookmark can be added later, to any recorded moment — the same hand that used to append _final to a file name now names a record instead.

The name is free text: "sent to client", "design locked", whatever you called it at the time.

5. Comparison answers three questions

• What did this save change — one moment’s changes.
• What changed between these two — read from the earlier to the later, whichever you clicked first.
• What have I changed since I sent it — a comparison whose far end is now. Bookmarked moments sort first.

The third is the one review cycles use constantly — "show me everything since the first submission" is two clicks.

6. Going back loses nothing

Open any moment, and restore the whole folder to it.

• Unsaved work is recorded first, so a restore you regret is itself one restore away.
• A restore lands on the timeline as a new entry. Existing entries are never deleted.
• After a subscription ends, opening the timeline, comparing and restoring keep working. Only new records and AI descriptions stop.

7. Account and subscription

The first 14 days are free; after that it is ₩5,900 (or US$4) a month. You can register several cards and set their order — renewals try them in that order, and if every card declines, that month simply does not renew and nothing accrues.

AI descriptions are capped at 300 a month. Past the cap the mechanical description takes over until the month resets.

Without internet, recording, comparing and restoring work unchanged, and the subscription check tolerates being offline for up to 7 days — the app on a plane is the app from yesterday.