Computer recording

I use OBS to record my screen, including my video calls.

Note: The desktop version of Zoom and Facebook Messenger will block the capacity to record the video feed, so use the online version to be able to record them. To use the online version of Zoom, you need to click on “launch the desktop version” and then “cancel” twice, and then the browser option will appear.

I’ve tried multiple tools to back up all web pages I visit, but nothing has sticked yet unfortunately.

Periodically download your data from the website you use (notably Google, Facebook, and emails).

Call recording

I’ve heard Zoom was less demanding than OBS. You can stream on YouTube from Zoom Pro. Jitsi offers that for free but limits the streams to 1 hour at a time (and also can’t record at the same time).

Historical

I haven’t been recording my devices screens systemically yet.

When I film myself with my GoPro, it will often be on my chest or on a table near me. In both cases, it will often also be filming the screens of my devices.

Also, my historical digital activity is already preserved in various ways other than videos (ex.: all my Google Docs keep all my edit history).

I would like an automatic way to extract all public pages I accessed from my Chrome history and then back them on the Wayback Machine. This should be a rather easy project, but I haven’t got around to doing it yet.

Phone

I’ve installed

AZ Screen Recorder⁠

to record my Android phone.

I only use my phone sporadically. So it would either be a high overhead to start and stop recording whenever I use it or a lot of storage space would be used to record my home screen with no activity.

Desktop

Yesterday I’ve tried the

Facebook Screen Sharing Chrome Extension⁠

to livestream my desktop (with the audience being set to only me). It worked well (although I could only stream one of my screens).

In the past I’ve also sometimes used the

Chrome Extension Screencastify⁠

to record my screen.

Mute noise while recording screen:

https://krisp.ai/blog/⁠

⁠

RecordScreen:

https://recordscreen.io/⁠

. Limited of 1 hour video.

To record my video chat, I use

CallNote⁠

Google

See settings to record as many things as you can for as long as you can here:

⁠

https://myactivity.google.com/u/4/activitycontrols?settings=search&utm_source=google-account&hl=en&utm_medium=web&continue=https://myaccount.google.com/u/4/?tab%3Dkk⁠

⁠

Ethics

Consider putting a note that you’re recording in your name.

Want to print your doc?
This is not the way.

Try clicking the ⋯ next to your doc name or using a keyboard shortcut (

CtrlP

) instead.