Augmenting Your Laptop Screen

Polarity is headed in an interesting direction, augmenting human memory in a heads-up display on workers’ screens

In Polarity raises $8.1M for its AI software that constantly analyzes employee screens and highlights key info | TechCrunch, Lucas Matney reports on a new round of VC for Polarity, an innovative enterprise tool with a wide range of possible angles:

Reference docs and spreadsheets seemingly make the world go ’round, but what if employees could just close those tabs for good without losing that knowledge?

One startup is taking on that complicated challenge. Predictably, the solution is quite complicated, as well, from a tech perspective, involving an AI solution that analyzes everything on your PC screen — all the time — and highlights text onscreen for which you could use a little bit more context. The team at Polarity wants its tech to help teams lower the knowledge barrier to getting stuff done and allow people to focus more on procedure and strategy than memorizing file numbers, IP addresses and jargon.

Like AR glasses for the laptop screen? Showing connections between what I am looking at right now and something I looked at five days (or weeks?) ago?

I’ve always wanted a work management solution that works like this, over your shoulder, and allowing you (or suggesting to you) tasks associated with what you are currently doing in the screen. For example, while I am reading this Techcrunch article about Polarity, my over-the-shoulder app could suggest creating a task to write about it, and capturing the appropriate text written by Lucas Matney.

It’s not clear that Polarity is headed in that direction, but I hope they do.