This release is a huge step for Recall. We started Recall with a focus on the content you consume: summarizing, saving, and organizing organizing YouTube videos, podcasts, TikToks, articles and PDFs. Now we're expanding to the content you create. While you've always been able to take notes in Recall's notebook tab, the editor was basic.
Today, we're launching a major upgrade with
a new block-style editor
.Why this matters:
Recall is now a space where your saved content and personal notes work together. Study notes with complex equations. Meeting notes. Daily journals. Project planning docs. All in one place, with AI that understands the full picture. Chat with your notes, summarize them, generate quizzes, and automatically connect ideas across everything you've saved and written.Check out this video where co-founder Sankari and the engineer who built the editor Mason do a demo.
Quick heads up: This is a raw, unscripted demo with some lag and quality issues. We wanted to get this out quickly. Hope you enjoy it!
Block-Style Editor
A new block-based note-taking system where each piece of content is an individual, movable unit.
Core functionality:
- Type /anywhere to access the block insertion menu
- Click +to create a new block below (hold Option/Alt ++for block above)
- Click ⋮⋮to transform blocks between types (e.g., paragraph → bullet list)
- Drag and drop blocks using the ⋮⋮handle to reorder content
Important change:
The way you create connections from the notebook has changed. Previously, you typed /
to create connections, but that now opens the rich text editor menu. **To create connections from the notebook, use [[
instead.**Available block types:
Basic blocks:
- Text blocks
- Six heading levels (H1-H6)
- Quotes and callouts
Lists:
- Bulleted lists
- Numbered lists
- To-do lists with checkboxes
Organization:
- Auto-generated table of contents (based on headings)
- Collapsible toggle sections
Advanced blocks:
- Images
- Tables with resizable columns/rows and cell background colors
- Code blocks with syntax highlighting (supports Bash, CSS, HTML, JavaScript, JSON, Markdown, Python, Shell, TypeScript)
- LaTeX equations (inline and block-level)
Editor Access Points
The editor is available in:
- Create a new note- by clicking the pen icon (✎) next to the Add Content button in the top right corner of the home page.
- Notebook tab- every saved content item (videos, podcasts, articles, PDFs) has an editable Notebook tab for contextual note-taking
- Browser extension- full editing capabilities in the extension interface
Notion Import:
As a reminder - you can Bulk import of Notion workspaces (10,000+ notes). We're excited about this update and would love to hear about your experience in our Discord channel.