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Active Recall - Summarize anything, forget nothing

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You'll likely forget 90% of the content you consume within a week. Recall summarizes online content, connects it in a knowledge graph and resurfaces it on a schedule tailored to your learning curve, helping you remember the information you care about.

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Paul Richards
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Hi PH community! I’m Paul, co-founder and CEO of Recall. I am an avid content consumer and note-taker who cares deeply about the knowledge I accumulate throughout my lifetime. In fact, I view my knowledge as one of my most precious resources. Despite trying every trending knowledge management tool out there, I consistently found myself spending more time meticulously crafting and categorizing my notes, only to forget about them when I needed them most. Having a background in knowledge graphs, I thought wouldn’t it be awesome if all my notes and the content I consumed was organized into a knowledge graph - resurfacing past content when new related content came up and helping me discover connections that I otherwise would have missed. When my frustration reached an all-time peak, I decided to take matters into my own hands and built my own tool. Recall started off as a side-project that I built for myself. I posted about it on Hacker News nearly two years ago and that was where the whirlwind began. My post trended on HN for over 13 hours, we received funding in less than 24 hours and I quit my job to go all in. That brings us to today! Together with my founding team— Igor and Sanks—we’re on a mission to bring order to content chaos, add intention to the content we consume, and ultimately bring back the joy of learning. The Recall Review is a baby step in our rich product vision. Check it out, and please share your candid feedback.
Paul Richards
Maker
@akanksha_pillay thank you. Would love to get feedback after you try it.
Miko Markovic
@paul_richards1 Hi Paul! Your journey with Recall sounds incredibly inspiring and something that resonates with many of us in the knowledge management space. I'm particularly interested in how Recall differentiates itself from other knowledge management tools out there. Can you elaborate on how Recall leverages knowledge graphs to enhance the user experience, and perhaps share an example of how it has helped you personally discover connections between your notes that you otherwise might have missed?
Paul Richards
Maker
@miko_markovic11 our big differentiator is that we build a knowledge graph from any of the online content you consume and save to Recall. Whether its a youtube video, blog post or podcasts - Recall can summarize it and find connections with other content that you have saved before. We are currently the only tool that can do this. The other graph based note-taking apps (obsidian, roam, etc) focus on building a knowledge graph from the notes that you take and is a manual effort. While Recall is focussed on the content you consume and creates the links automatically. Here is an example of how you can find connections between new content and past content. I have pinned the timestamp from the video above: https://youtu.be/7jOCYJEdp0g?t=80
Jeffrey
@paul_richards1 Great job man! congrats on your launch and keep up the good job
Max Savonin
@paul_richards1 Hi Paul, As a fellow knowledge enthusiast and content consumer, I was immediately captivated by Recall's concept of leveraging knowledge graphs to organize and resurface information. Here are some questions that pique my interest: - How does Recall integrate with existing note-taking apps or knowledge management tools users might already be using? - Does Recall offer advanced search functionalities to unearth connections beyond basic keyword matching? My background in full-stack development could potentially contribute to Recall's development in areas like: - Refining the algorithms for building a user's unique knowledge graph and optimizing content resurfacing based on context and past interactions. - Developing advanced search features and personalization algorithms to deliver highly relevant and insightful connections between content pieces. I'd love to learn more about Recall's vision and explore how my skills could complement your mission to empower users through knowledge organization and discovery. Best regards, Max
Ryan Hoover
There are so many summarization and bookmarking tools but I haven't seen any that focus on the learning and recall component. Smart.
Paul Richards
Maker
@rrhoover thanks Ryan, appreciate it. PS: getting a upvote from you is such an achievement unlocked moment for me.
Esus 🛡️
@rrhoover +1, same here. That's what made me stop scrolling and click 'pricing'. Along with intelligent linking, this might be my new tool for note taking.
Anastasiia Stepko
Testing knowledge makes your product win for me over similar ones! Great job, guys! All the best with the launch and its' results!
Igor Gligorevic
Maker
@anastasiia_stepko Thanks Anastasiia!
Stefans Keiss
Congrats on the launch! Can you share more details on how Recall manages to create connections between different types of content?
Paul Richards
Maker
@memphys_sk yes, its all based on the connections are all based on the entities (companies, people, places, and other things) that are extracted in the content. For example, if a blog post and a YouTube podcast both mention OpenAI, they'll be connected via an OpenAI node. You can also create connections manually by linking cards directly from the editor.
Arthur Leclercq
I love the concept, how does it work? Do you read articles on the platform or connect them to recall? Congratz for the launch btw!
Igor Gligorevic
Maker
@arthur_leclercq Thank you Arthur! Recall can summarize any online content, and you can choose whether you want to save it into your knowledge base, where it connects with the knowledge you previously saved.
Paul Richards
Maker
@arthur_leclercq thanks Arthur. You can use our browser extension to add articles and content to your Recall knowledge base or your can just copy and paste the URL into the webapp. Once in the knowledge base, its summarized, categorized and connected with other content. You can then also add the content to your Recall Review, in which case it will generated quiz questions based on the content.
Arthur Leclercq
@igor_gligorevic it looks great, do you have plans to possibly integrate this on phones? Personally, most of the article that I read, I read them on my phone
Arthur Leclercq
@paul_richards1 thanks for the details!
Igor Gligorevic
Maker
@arthur_leclercq We already have a mobile app in beta for both Android and iOS that uses share intent to generate summaries.
André J
Alternative name suggestion: "Total recall" 😏
Paul Richards
Maker
@sentry_co I guess you meant "Total Recall"? This was a top contender. I also thought about making the base version Recall and the premium version Total Recall
André J
@paul_richards1 Yes!!! Themed as Hollywood 80s Schwarzenegger action movie style. Would totally win product of the day / week / month. Probably hit the front page of the verge 😂
Ninad Talware
What a great idea with a fascinating backstory! 🔥 'Summarize Anything, Forget Nothing' is a great slogan!! 💯 Best wishes @paul_richards1 and the team. 🚀
Igor Gligorevic
Maker
@paul_richards1 @ninad_1607 Thank you! We're glad you like the slogan and appreciate your support. 🚀
Paul Richards
Maker
@ninad_1607 Thank you! Glad you like it. We have been through many iterations of our tagline.
Chandula Perera
This is so good! Love that there's an option to test the knowledge with questions. Is there a feature to share the knowledge base? I think that would be cool as well.
Paul Richards
Maker
@chandula thank you! Right now you can share a single card at a time. We are working on allowing you to share your entire/sections of your knowledge base.
Igor Gligorevic
Maker
@chandula Thank you! We're glad you like the option to test knowledge with questions. Currently, there isn't an option to share the entire knowledge base, but you can share individual cards. However, sharing the whole knowledge base is on our roadmap. We'll also be introducing workspaces so you don't have to share everything from your knowledge graph, just specific workspaces with other users. Additionally, we plan to introduce a feature that will allow you to see how knowledge graphs connect, making it easier to identify common interests with other users.
JaredL
Recall looks like a game-changing tool for knowledge management! 🤯 The ability to automatically summarize and connect content into a personalized knowledge graph is a brilliant idea. I'm excited to try it out and see how it can help me retain and recall information more effectively.
Paul Richards
Maker
@jaredl keen to hear you feedback on the product after you have tried it!
Igor Gligorevic
Maker
@jaredl Thank you Jared! We'd love to hear back from you after you try it out.
JaredL
@igor_gligorevic @paul_richards1 I tried the long video summarization feature and it really surprised me. The experience was very good, and there is an outline that allows for direct navigation. Regarding knowledge graphs, I have always hoped for a tool that can automatically tag my saved content. Not only did you achieve this, but you also exceeded expectations in this area. Very impressive! If the UI could be further optimized, I would be very willing to continue using it. You could consider using NextUI. 🫡
Daniel
This looks like a fabulous idea. I was always a fan of Obsidins's note map, so am immediately a huge fan of this. How would recall handle more unusual forms of content such as data visualizations, social media like Reddit, or web3 websites, which often have text in a far less structured format?
Igor Gligorevic
Maker
@dan16 Thanks Daniel! Currently, we can't summarize data visualizations yet. Recall already supports structured content, but there are cases where it needs improvement. Enhancing our support for structured content like social media is on our roadmap.
Paul Richards
Maker
@dan16 Thanks Daniel. We parse content from a wide variety of content sources like Youtube videos, blogposts, Reddit posts, PDF, news, etc. We do our best to parse the structure on whichever webpage you are on. Right now, it won't work on data visualizations but its something that we could implement in the future with a multi-modal language model.
Daniel
@paul_richards1 @igor_gligorevic , Thanks for the reply; gotchya, yeah, data visualization could be a very useful addition. Also, as an idea, add an "auto" mode that would save all content you open if you are doing an intense work/study session. Because, as amazing as Active Recall is, I do see how it can be distracting, especially when a user is experiencing "flow" state. As an add-on to this, you can build a fairly simple AI pattern recognition prompt so that if the user forgets to toggle "auto" off and moves on to a different activity, such as watching unrelated YouTube cat memes, Active Recall would pop up asking if you want to continue recording.
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