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Sloth Roll: an on-device vision model that turns my screenshots into calendar events, places and expenses. I only swipe.

DEV Community: ios·Martin Espericueta·6 days ago
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This is a submission for the Hacktoberfest Open-Source AI Challenge Week 3: Slow and Steady

What I Built

My camera roll is full of screenshots of things I meant to do later. A flyer for a tournament on Saturday. A restaurant someone recommended. A receipt I should have written down. I take the screenshot, and that's where it ends. Later never comes.

So I built an app for that later. Sloth Roll reads my screenshots on the iPhone with an open-weight vision model and turns each one into a card:

an event goes to Calendar,

a place opens in Apple Maps,

a receipt is saved to an expense list inside the app.

I don't type, copy, paste, or switch apps. I only swipe: right to do it, left to skip it. Tap a card to fix the title, date, place or amount first.

It also does the cleanup I keep putting off. Screenshots that are blurry, near-duplicates, or that the model calls not useful end up in a Clean up tab, and I delete them in one tap.…

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