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Follow up on the latest improvements and updates.
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Hello everyone!
Over the past few weeks, we've been busy squashing bugs that popped up after our latest release. Here’s an update on the key fixes with many more quick wins coming soon.
Augmented Browsing:
- Ensured that highlights no longer overlay other elements while browsing.
Content:
- Improved tag generation — you should notice more relevant tags now.
- Fixed a bug where sharing cards with users who don’t have a Recall account didn’t work.
- Added an empty line after images and AI actions to make it easier to focus the cursor.
User Experience:
- Fixed layout issues for users on smaller tablets.
- Improved error messaging when a card cannot be created.
- Made small improvements to the onboarding steps.
We're thrilled to introduce major improvements to Recall—designed to bring even more utility to your knowledge base. To help existing users get oriented with the changes, we've created a dedicated tutorial.
Augmented Browsing
Enhance your learning and research by resurfacing related content from your knowledge base as you browse. Key features include:
- Local-First & Private:Your knowledge stays on your device, ensuring privacy and security. Recall doesn't send any data to the cloud unless you specifically save it.
- Real-Time Connections to Past Content:As you browse, Recall instantly highlights keywords that are related to saved content, helping you connect new insights with what you already know.
- Precise Keyword Placement:Identifies the exact place in past content where those keywords were mentioned.
- Recall Widget:Displays the number of connections on a given page. Use the arrows to navigate through your connections or as a shortcut to create a specific summary.
📌 Note: This is off by default; you can enable it in your settings
Chat with your Content
Save time and get straight to the point. Ask questions and extract insights directly from your saved pages. When chatting with content, it's important to remember that you are interacting only with the specific content source – not the entire internet. This ensures responses are highly relevant and specific to the content you’ve stored.
Note: We will soon launch a Chat with Your Entire Knowledge Base feature – stay tuned!
Recall Reader: Save the Full Content
The Recall Reader is designed to store a copy of the original content within Recall. This feature allows you to use Recall as a reliable read-it-later app, ensuring that your content is always available when you need it. It also provides the foundation for our interactive chat capabilities, enabling you to engage with your content without losing any detail.
A few things to note:
- The Reader is read-only; use the Notebook tab to add your personal notes and annotations.
- Auto format the reader by clicking the 🪄 (wand) symbol on your Recall card. This is available for all content except YouTube videos and PDFs.
- Expand & Collapse the reader by clicking the icon in the bottom right of your Recall card.
UI / UX Refresh
We have improved the user flow and layout of the app, some core changes include:
- A side by side view of the Reader and your Notebook
- Merging detailed and concise summaries into 1 card - this is all in the Notebook tab where everything is fully editable.
Increased Language Support
Recall now supports.....
Happy New Year, Everyone!As we welcome 2025, we’re continuing to work on some foundational updates to ensure a stable and scalable experience for storing full content, chat, and using the Recall Augmented Browser. While those changes are in progress, we’re excited to share a new enhancement designed to make adding content to Recall even smoother.
Introducing the Improved +New Button
- The +New Button has been consolidated to provide a much cleaner way to upload content directly within the app.
- With just one click, you can now access a view of all available actions for adding content to Recall.
While we still recommend the **Recall Browser Extension** as the most efficient way to add content into Recall, we hope this in-app update offers a smoother and more user-friendly experience.
Thank you for your continued support—here’s to a productive and exciting year ahead!
Happy Thanksgiving, everyone! 🦃🍂
While we’re heads down preparing for a big release, we’re excited to announce that
Recall Review Reminders
are now live! These reminders are on by default,
but you can easily manage and turn them on or off in your settings.
How the Recall Review Works
If you’ve generated a question for a card, it will automatically be added to your Recall Review. This feature uses spaced repetition to surface a shuffle of your questions at optimal intervals to enhance your memory.
You can manage your questions in two ways:
- Directly on each card.
- In the Cards & Questions Section of the Recall Review.
Managing Questions
- When managing your questions, you can:
- Generate more AI-powered questions.
- Add manual questions and answers.
- Delete questions easily.
💡 Pro Tip: You can create questions for any card, including ones you’ve generated yourself. This makes it perfect for quizzing yourself on study notes, journals, or any content you want to revisit.
Improvements Coming Soon
We’re working on further enhancements to make Recall Review even better:
- Manage questions directly during a quiz (e.g., delete or edit on the fly).
- Increase quiz difficulty for a greater challenge.
- Shuffle quiz order for variety.
- Review cards by category for targeted learning.
Stay tuned for more updates, and as always, we’d love to hear your feedback!
We’ve been focusing on a series of quality of life updates to make your experience with Recall smoother and more intuitive. Here’s what’s new:
Fully Editable Browser Extension
- Lock and Edit: Now you can lock the extension in place, making it easier to edit while browsing through full content.
- Expanded View: Expand the extension for a larger editing area right in your browser.
- Jump to the exact mention of an entity: When clicking an entity, it will jump to the exact part of the summary that mentions that entity.
General Usability Updates
- Grid/List Toggle: Switch between grid and list views for a more customized layout.
- Collapsible Side Panel: Keep your workspace clean by collapsing the left side panel.
- Bulk Actions:
- Delete Cards in Bulk: Select multiple cards by clicking the white checkbox in the right corner and delete them all at once.
- Bulk Delete Review Questions: When in the Recall Review, go to “Cards and Questions” for bulk deletion of review questions.
- Alphabetical Sorting: An additional option to sort all your cards alphabetically.
- Save your spot: If you switch to another card while in a summary, you’ll return to exactly where you left off.
Mobile Updates
- Full Text Editor: Enjoy a seamless editing experience on the go.
- Image Uploads: Now you can add images directly from your mobile device.
- Quick Content Access: Locked the “Add New Content” button to quickly access it as you scroll.
We hope you find these improvements helpful, and as always, let us know your feedback!
We’re super excited to announce this release, which brings you a fully Editable Recall Browser Extension—designed to make your workflow much smoother.
Here’s what’s new:
- Seamless Content Editing and Syncing:All content in the extension is fully editable and automatically synced to the corresponding card in your knowledge base, ensuring consistency across your notes.
- Editable Card Category (aka Tags):Now you can select and edit the card category directly in the extension, keeping everything organized.
- Enhanced Entity Connections:Scroll down to view entities extracted from your content. You may notice numbers next to each entity, representing connections to existing content in your knowledge base. Click on the number to navigate directly to those connections in your knowledge base.
- Automatic Saving:Whenever you edit a card, it’s automatically saved into your knowledge base—no extra steps needed.
Do play around and let us know what you think! If you haven’t installed the extension yet, be sure to do so to get the most out of your experience with Recall.
We are so excited to share that one of our most requested features - summary length options has just been released.
This feature will give you more control over the length of the summary. You are able to choose between
concise
and detailed
summaries.This will work on all the ways that you create summaries in Recall:
- The Browser Extension
- Pasting in a URL
- Uploading a PDF
- Sharing on Mobile - note this will be based on the default settings you can configure in your settings page.
We're happy to announce another release for Recall. Here's what's included in the release:
- Upload PDFs directly from the web and mobile apps.
- Big performance improvements to the mobile apps (the app loads 80% faster on first launch).
- Dynamically set the image sizes for the preview image based on the image aspect ratio.
- Fixed YouTube summaries for Live videos.
We released a few touchups to our UI for a more intuitive navigation of the Recall Knowledge Base. This is just the first step in a series of UI improvements.
1. Drag and Drop:
You can now drag and drop cards in the left hand panel navigation to effortlessly organize your cards. 
2. Adding New Content
: A seamless way to ingest new content into Recall: Click the "New" button in the top right corner of the app to add new content into Recall:- Pasting a URL of any online content / adding content through wikipedia
- Creating a blank card
- Importing your bookmarks.
There is a lot more to come here as we plan to focus on more ways to bulk import content into Recall.
3. More Sorting Options:
We added the ability to sort cards in ascending / descending order. 4. Three ways to view your Knowledge Base:
In the top left corner you can switch between different ways to view your knowledge base. - Home: This is the default card view.
- Graph: This is the visual representation of the underlying infrastructure that connects all your knowledge together. Select a tag in the left hand panel to further filer your graph.
- Review: This switches to the "Recall Review" which creates a schedule to review the cards that you have generated questions for on a personalized schedule.
Tags are now based on topic of content
In this update we have changed how tags are automatically assigned. The previous logic assigned tags based on the source of the content. However, we have just refreshed this logic such that tags are now based on the topic of the content, rather than the source. This makes it easier to organize and find content based on the topic. It also results in less tags being created as the same tags get reused more often.
Example: A YouTube video by Tim Ferris on Longevity
Old Tagging:
New Tagging:
Easier to create nested tags
Creating nested tags is now easier. You can create a new tag and nest it under an existing tag simply by using the / character. For example, to create a tag Artificial Intelligence under Technology, you can simply type Technology/Artificial Intelligence when creating a new tag.
YouTube Video Links
Each point in a YouTube video can now be linked to a specific time in the video.
Smaller Improvements
- The onboarding banner doesn't show up after its already been dismissed
- Images resizing improvements: You can now resize images to be the full width of the screen. Images will also resize dynamically based on the screen size.
- Copying and pasting text from one card to another will now also copy card references.
- Fixed Canny login redirection being blocked by the browser.
- Fixed issue that was causing the mobile app to crash and show a grey screen.
- Fixed copy and paste saving issue.
What's Coming Next
- We recently hired a new designer and we are working on some UI/UX improvements for our web app.
- Summary length options.
- Chat with your knowledge base.
- Performance improvements are coming to the mobile apps as well as deep linking support.