The Ultimate Recall Tutorial: Take Control of Content & Build Your Lifelong Knowledge Base

We've probably spent hours this week

watching videos, listening to podcasts,

reading articles, but how much of it was

actually worth our time? And how much

was just fluff? You know, that 2-hour

long podcast where the real takeaway

only hits at minute 57. And then what

about the things we care about when it's

scattered across bookmarks, notes,

messages to yourself? How do you find it

when you need it most? Well, with the

recall, you can pre-screen content

before you commit to it. save it all in

one personal knowledge base, searchable

and accessible forever. I'm Suns, one of

the co-founders of Recall. And what

you're looking at is my personal Recall

knowledge base. I have over 3,000 pieces

of content saved. My favorite movies,

recipes, podcasts that I don't want to

forget. All automatically categorized

and searchable forever. And in the next

few minutes, I'm going to show you how

to get your own personal knowledge base

up and running. Now, you can access

Recall via the web app, which is what

you've seen now. But we also have a

mobile app, which is great for when

you're out and about. And one of my

personal favorite ways to access Recall

is via the browser extension. So, I

highly recommend that when you're on

desktop, one of the first things to do

is to go ahead and install the

extension.

Once it's installed, I do recommend that

you pin the extension so it sits on your

toolbar and it's easy to access. Now,

when you come to a really long form

piece of content and you're not so sure

if it's worth your time, you can just go

ahead and click the recall browser

extension and you can see it creates a

really nice concise summary of the video

which you can use to skim through and

see if it's something that you're

interested in or in this case I would

even just get to the point and ask a

question. So, in this case,

why is fasting bad for women? and you

get an answer based on the actual video.

So, this isn't a conversation with the

internet, it's with the actual piece of

content. I might skim through this and

if I find it interesting, I'm going to

go ahead and add it to my notebook. So,

just an overview of what's in the

extension. The notebook is where that

automatic summary was saved. It's also

where your AI actions are saved. So, now

this conversation, this chat is saved

into the notebook. It's also fully

editable. Now you also have the reader.

The reader is the full original content.

So in this case it's the full YouTube

transcript. And there's also a

connections tab which automatically

extracts content and connects it

together. But we'll get deeper into

connections in a minute. Coming back to

the notebook, what I really love is

these timestamps. So I can skip to

particular parts of the video. That's

interesting. Before I do that though,

I've clicked this little lock button. So

when I skip to particular parts, the

extension doesn't move. I can just use

it to navigate to certain sections while

keeping the extension side by side.

Again, I mentioned the notebook is

editable. So if I see something

interesting, I can come in, highlight, I

can take my own notes. So you can really

use it as a typical editor. Now when I

save the content into recall, you can

see that it's been automatically

categorized as health female physiology.

Now, I didn't add that tag. The AI

figured out what the right tag would be.

And that's because I already have a big

category called health, and I have a

subcategory called female physiology,

and it figured out that was a great way

to store that content. If you weren't

happy with it, you can drag and drop it

into other sections. You can also just

delete it and add your own tag. I do

recommend checking out one of our deep

dive videos or our docs on tags just so

you can learn a little bit more about

how to fully customize your tag. Now,

let's spend a little bit of time with

what's happened now that you've saved

this content into recall. You have a

title. It's fully editable. You have a

link to the original source. We have

tags which we just covered. And you also

are looking at a split screen view where

I have my notebook on the left hand side

and my reader on the right. Now, this

view is fully customizable. If you'd

rather, let's say, have connections on

the right, you can drag and drop it into

place. If you're finding that the split

screen view is quite overwhelming, maybe

you prefer just a single screen, you can

click that little arrow and it will just

compress it into a single screen with

all of your tabs. The tabs itself can

also drag and dropped into a different

place, so you can customize that as

well. As a recap, I've got my notebook

here and everything I did in the

extension, the highlights, the notes,

it's automatically synced with what I've

now saved in my knowledge base. And I've

got the reader, that's the original

content, and chat is now its own tab. A

couple things to note. If you want to

switch between that concise summary to a

detailed summary, you can just select

that default action.

And when you're ready to save it, you

can just go ahead and add it to the

notebook. So that's a quick way for you

to quickly switch between a detailed or

a concise summary. You can also change

that in your settings. So if you always

prefer a detailed summary, you can

configure that in your settings. A few

other things, we have that connections

tab we've mentioned. We've got a quiz.

So if you wanted to rejoin off that

content, you can generate an AI quiz and

just put your knowledge to the test. And

there's also a graph view, but I'll get

more into that in a bit more detail

later. Couple other things while we're

here. You can share your content with

anyone. So, you can copy this link. It's

then live and no one needs to sign up,

but they can access the summary. They

can access your notes and the full

original content. You can also adjust

your font size if you prefer something

larger, something smaller. And you can

also always export this content to

markdown or even change the images. So

if you don't like the header, upload

another image and make that your own

image. Or you can add your own images to

the notebook itself. Now there are many

other ways that you can add content into

recall. You can just come into the app,

click add content, and then paste in the

URL of any online content, podcasts,

articles, videos, and there's a lot more

that we're looking to support. You can

also just use quick search on Wikipedia.

I love to do this when I'm adding

movies. So, my favorite movie, Burn

After Reading. It then saves the recall

card. It categorizes it as movie and it

also pulls in the full Wikipedia page.

I can also upload PDFs, so up to 100

megabyte PDFs. And I can also bulk

import, which is just a great way to get

a lot of content into recall almost

instantly. So you can import up to a

thousand bookmarks, import from Pocket,

or even import up to 10,000 markdown

files. And that's just a great way to

just speed up building up your knowledge

base. And you can also just create your

own notes. So you can come in here, put

a title in, take some notes, and it's

also able to enable you to chat with

your own notes. So have a conversation

with your own notes. You can even quiz

yourself on your own notes. and you'll

be surprised on how much you actually

can get wrong even quizzing yourself on

notes you've taken yourself. I

personally love to take my own notes

when it comes to my journals and then I

will chat with all of them to pick up

patterns or trends that I might miss

myself. Another tip is to share content

directly with recall when you're on the

mobile app. So, you can just share any

online content directly with the Recall

mobile app and it will automatically

create that summary, tag it, and it's a

great way to build up your knowledge

base while you're on the go. Making our

way back to the homepage, I do want to

get you familiar with how to navigate

your recall knowledge base. So, you can

sort your cards in a few different ways.

We have a list view if you prefer

something more compact and you can also

order it by alphabetical order or last

created at a couple different options

there. If you click this little arrow on

the left side, it expands your tags. Now

tags again is just a way to organize

content within recall. If I then select

health, all my content in the main view

is then filtered on what's saved in

health. I can then just click clear and

that takes me back to my homepage. I can

also just collapse it if I want more

space. On the left hand panel, we now

have access to some of our features that

now pertain to the whole knowledge base.

So, previously we've been looking at

features on a specific card. But some of

our most powerful features is when you

take all that information you've saved

and you can access it at once. Which

brings us to my all-time favorite

feature, chat with knowledge base.

With chat GPT, you're having a

conversation with the entire internet.

But with recall, you're having a

conversation with all the personal

content that you've been saving. So to

get started here, one of the first

things I recommend is just setting some

context. You can click this add button

and then select a tag that you're

interested in. In this case, let's say

productivity. But you could do this for

nested tags, some tags, or just

specifying specific cards that you want

to chat to or compare. So talking to all

the content I saved under productivity,

I could ask

make me a routine to optimize my focus

and productivity and

enhance it using my

journals. So, I've been taking journals

in recall, and I'd love to combine the

hundreds of content on productivity that

I've been saving with my own personal

journals just so I can get a really

tailored protocol. So, here you can see

all of the contents. It's referenced.

It's got a mix of content I've been

saving myself like my journals, but also

all those productivity podcasts. I think

I uploaded over a 100 podcasts from Tim

Ferrris and Cal Newport and both

imported them using the bookmarks and in

a way it's like I'm having a

conversation with them and their

expertise and then enhancing it using my

own personal information. So even here

you can see it references particular

timestamps where things were mentioned.

It mentions treat focus time as on or

off with simple rules to respect these

boundaries. I can see that it's

referencing a Cal Newport YouTube video

and I can then skip

>> and you just have a simple set of rules

for how you treat focus work

>> to the exact point in the video where

that was mentioned. So I now have a

really detailed schedule that's combined

expert advice that I trust along with my

own personal journals. Now I can get

nuts with examples for how I use chat.

I've bulk imported podcasts from Echo

who's a spiritual leader and I feel like

I'm speaking to him when I need advice

on my ego and keeping myself in check. I

love speaking with my journals. I love

speaking with my recipes. When I have a

big dinner party and I have about 10

different recipes that I want to make, I

quickly use it to make a shopping list.

Do check out my use cases where I go a

lot deeper on this and we're working on

some docs that cover all the use cases

with chats.

Before we wrap up, I just want to spend

a little bit of time on some of the

foundations of Recall and that is the

knowledge graph which starts with

connections. So when you open up a piece

of content and you have a look at the

connections tab, what you're seeing are

keywords that have been automatically

extracted from your content and linked

together. So here you see the word

dopamine and the number 15. And that's

because dopamine has been mentioned in

15 other pieces of content that I've

saved within recall. Now, if you see

connections here that are not that

interesting to you and you actually want

to remove it, you can just hover over it

and unlink that connection or you can

create your own connections. Now,

there's two key ways to do that. The

first is you can just highlight a word.

So, let's say Alzheimer's and then click

the lightning bolt. This will then pull

up a short list to either let you create

an empty card, so create a blank card on

Alzheimer's, or link to existing cards,

or pull up a card from Wikipedia. So, in

this case, it's pulled up a Wikipedia

page on Alzheimer's and linked it to 12

other pieces of content that also

mention Alzheimer's.

If I also want to link to content that

isn't on Wikipedia, but is actually just

in my own knowledge base, I can do that

as well. So, this is a YouTube video on

sugar cravings. I might want to link it

to some of my recipes. So, for this, I'm

going to the forward slash sign, and

this pulled up a bit of a search where I

can then type in

my avocado chocolate mousse. And here I

have a mix of the avocado Wikipedia page

or my avocado chocolate mousse. So when

I open up avocado chocolate mousse, I

now have a backlink that takes me to

that original piece of content on

killing your sugar cravings.

These connections play quite an

important role in recall. In fact, it

forms the base of a relatively new

feature, which is augmented browsing. To

turn this on, you go to browser

extension settings. You click enable

augmented browsing. You can also turn on

the widget. They go quite nicely hand in

hand. And what happens is then as you're

browsing first you see this little

widget pop up and this then mentions the

number of connections I have on a given

page back to my knowledge base. So the

idea here was when you're saving so much

content into recall. How can you have it

instead of just sitting passively

resurface as you're browsing other

relevant information? And so here I have

45 connections back to my knowledge

base. I can see that these little

highlights pop up as I browse. So here I

can see the word nora periphery and I

might think I've seen this word

norareaphering before. Where have I seen

it? And I can see that it was mentioned

in this podcast that I had listened to

years ago. And when I click on it,

it takes me back to the exact place in

my knowledge base where Nora peripher

was mentioned. So I get a really nice

reminder even for 20 seconds. It's known

to increase nor peripherine by 200%. So

that's crazy. You know, I've forgotten

about cold bath and the impact of nor

peripherine and I've gone from browsing

an article to ending up back in my

knowledge base and making this

connection.

While that's really fun, you might see

some words that you're not that

interested in seeing again. So you could

hover over it and just click this little

eye to unlink it. And you can also add

particular sites that you don't want

augmented browsing showing on. All that

said, augmented browsing is local first.

So as you're browsing and have augmented

browsing turned on, nothing leaves your

device.

The last part to mention on connections

is that visual representation. So you

may have gotten a bit more curious on

that graph view and this really shows

you how your cards are linking together

in a more visual format. So here I can

see this podcast mentions information. I

can then click that plus sign and it

then opens up into all the other content

that I have that mentions inflammation

and could link me to a completely

separate topic on longevity molecules.

This is now the single card graph view,

but you can also see a graph view of all

all the content in your knowledge base.

I have over 3,000 pieces of content. So,

this really looks insane. It's

unmanageable. And so I really come in

and filter it. So if I'm doing a bit

more work on sleep, I might want to

click into my sleep graph view. This is

a lot more manageable. So I can actually

come in and zoom into particular

connections that might be interesting to

explore more. That said, I think there's

a lot more that we can do on our graph

view to bring a lot more utility and

management to it.

The last feature I'll leave you with,

which also pertains to the whole

knowledge base, is the recall review.

Now, you would have seen that quiz we

created earlier. And what it does is it

takes a card that you've generated a

quiz on, shuffles it up, and creates

this personalized learning schedule for

you. So, the more that you get answers

incorrect, the more you keep seeing that

answer, the more you get answers

correct, the less you'll see it. And so

it really uses these two scientific

techniques of active recall and space

repetition to create this schedule for

you to help you offset your forgetting

curve. Just a personal note, I got off

social media a few years ago and

I still found that I had this itch to

want to do something on my phone. And I

found that actually coming into recall

and navigating to some of the content

that I'm interested in and running a

little recall review was just a great

way to use my time and actually ensure

that the content that I was trying to

learn, I actually was grasping and

putting my knowledge to the test. Do

note that we have quite a lot of

customization available within your

knowledge base. So head over to your

settings where you can change to a light

theme. Uh you can switch your default

action, change your languages. Have a

little bit of fun playing around with

these settings. I will leave you at

that. I honestly have transformed the

way I decide to spend my time with

content. Transform the peace of mind I

have with where I save precious

information that I care about. And I

have to say I have been having so much

fun with our chat with knowledgebased

feature really extracting value from all

the things I've been saving over the

years and uncovering insights that I

truly would have missed without recall.

Do give us a go. We would love your

feedback. We're actively building and

iterating on recall and you our users is

what really helps us shape that. So

thank you for watching this and would

love to hear from you. Cheers.