Sankari Nair

Recall Augmented Browsing - Never wonder where you've seen something before.

Ever read something and think, 'I’ve seen this before'—but can’t remember where? Augmented Browsing resurfaces related content from your Recall knowledgebase, turning passive browsing into active discovery. Join 200K+ nerds and elevate how you consume content.

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Paul Richards

Hello everyone! Paul here—co-founder and CEO of Recall.


It’s been 10 months since our last launch. It’s been an exciting, intense, and chaotic journey getting here (we delayed this launch several times to get it polished!) But now, we’re back with our biggest update yet: Augmented Browsing, Chat with Your Content, and more.

This feature seeded the inception of Recall. PKM has always been a passion of mine, but one question kept frustrating me:

"Where have I seen this before?"

I’d read something online, recognize something familiar, and then waste time searching through my messy notes —only to come up frustrated. I wanted a way to instantly resurface relevant knowledge as I browsed.


Introducing  Augmented Browsing—An overlay on your browser that highlights keywords that are stored in your existing Recall knowledge base. This brings utility and real time connections to what has historically been a very passive knowledge management space.  It is important to note that it is local first— nothing leaves your device while you browse. Do check out the tutorial of Augmented Browsing in action.

Here’s what’s in the release: 

  1. Augmented Browsing –  Resurfaces related content from your knowledge base as you browse. Since Augmented Browsing is local-first, our keyword extraction doesn’t rely on an LLM—it’s powered by our own model. We’re constantly refining it to surface meaningful connections rather than just frequent keyword

  2. Chat with Your Content – Our most requested feature! Ask questions and get insights from your saved sources.

  3. Store Full Content –  Use Recall as your go-to read-it-later app. Save entire pages and transcripts.

Together with our growing team - Igor, Sanks, Ali & Mason we are focused on a series of features that will continue to bring utility to the knowledge management space, so that you are consistently extracting value from the content you consume. This really is just the beginning for us, we hope this launch resonates with you. Truly excited to hear your candid feedback. 

Dani Szwarc

@paul_richards1 I love this tool so much! Thank you Paul!!
Are you planning to offer promo codes for subscriptions?

Dani Szwarc

@paul_richards1 Subscribed!

Alex Lou
This is amazing, congrats on the launch! Curious how the privacy is handled as I am likely to not want some confidential contents to be “viewed” by Recall.
Paul Richards

@thefullstack Thats a great question. We store your entire knowledge base locally (in IndexedDB in your browser) - we then do entity extraction on each webpage you browse to and match those entities with ones that are already saved in your knowledge base this way nothing from the webpage is sent to our servers. Hope that makes sense. Please let me know if you have further questions!

Paul Lundin

@thefullstack  @paul_richards1  Is recall selling data, blinded or otherwise, to 3rd party advertisers?

Paul Richards

@thefullstack  @snowandcaffeine No, definitely not. That is not our business.

Nika

Dejavu? As soon as I saw the name of the product and the video – you guys have my full attention!


Love it – like you also incorporated an editor and quiz AI maker.


Something that stands out from the crowd.


Good job! :)

Paul Richards

@busmark_w_nika Thanks Nika. Dejavu would actually be such a good name for Recall. Will definitely keep that one incase we ever need to change our name.

Chris Moore

@paul_richards1 Recall is the PERFECT name. It does what it says. "If you confuse, you lose."

Paul Richards

@crsmoore yeah I love the name Recall too. We are not going to change.

Nika

@paul_richards1 haha, it wasn't meant to be a suggestion :D but could be :D

Paul Richards

@busmark_w_nika Dejavu.ai domain is 80k USD 😱

Nika

@paul_richards1 So maybe in the future :DDD

Parth Vyas

Being a marketer, I actively look out for creative campaigns that describe a service/product so well that it sells automatically without sounding salesy. But it is very frustrating to create a personal swipe file in Google Sheets and then recheck it every time.


I'm super glad that Recall solves this. I simply ❤️️ it.


Now I browse freely, jump to multiple pages, dig down the rabbit hole, and that too without worrying about saving each link in a different sheet.


Thanks, entire Recall Team @sankari_nair @paul_richards1 @mason_hu @igor_gligorevic @jonnotie @thisalihassan , for making browsing efficient & fun. ✌️

Paul Richards

@sankari_nair  @mason_hu  @igor_gligorevic  @jonnotie  @thisalihassan  @theparthvyas_ Thank you Parth, really appreciate such a nice message from you.

Ali Hassan

thank you @theparthvyas_ 

Julia Zakharova

Congratulations on the launch!

Funny video))))) Definitely something I'll be recalling)

Paul Richards

@julia_zakharova2 Thanks Julia :)

Sankari Nair

@julia_zakharova2 Thank you! We were a bit on the fence with it - really glad you enjoyed it!

Feliciana

Congrats on the launch! I'm curious about how well does Recall determine what's truly related?

Paul Richards

@feliciana_liu Thanks for the question. We determine connections between pages based on common entities. Say for example a webpage you browse to mentions a person that is also mentioned somewhere in your knowledge base, it will then create a connection to that related content and point you to exactly where that person was mentioned.

Jonas Urbonas

Wow, I love how Recall is bringing real-time value to knowledge management with the Augmented Browsing feature! It's great to see how you're making the browsing experience more intuitive by connecting stored knowledge directly to what you're reading. What other types of integrations or content sources are you planning to add next to enhance the browsing experience even further?

Sankari Nair

@jonurbonas Thank you so much for sharing! First we will work on supporting more content type (Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Youtube with no transcripts are all in testing) from there we can look at bigger integrations!

Paul Richards

@jonurbonas Hi Jonas, thanks for the question. Current Recall works on most PDFs, Youtube Videos, articles, blogs and most general websites. We are working on adding support for podcasts from Spotify and Apple in the coming weeks. If there is any specific content source that you want you can always submit a request here (https://feedback.getrecall.ai/feature-requests) and we will try add it.

Nice work on launching Augmented Browsing! But how do you ensure the content resurfaced is truly relevant, without overwhelming users with too much information or showing unrelated matches? @paul_richards1

Paul Richards

@zimbra For each of the matches we look at the relevance of the connection with respects to the context of the content. Only highly relevant content gets connection. That said, we are still working on improving the algo used for this matching.

Faizan Jan

I've been exploring Recall's features, and the concept of building a personal knowledge base from various content sources is fascinating. The augmented browsing feature, which brings up related information as I surf the web, seems particularly useful. However, I'm curious about how Recall ensures the accuracy of its AI-generated summaries. Also, is there a way to customize the organization of the knowledge base to better fit individual workflows?

Paul Richards

@faizanjan_ Hi there, thanks for the questions. Yes you can fully customize the categories that content is saved in. For the ai generated summaries - they are pretty accurate as they are grounded on the original content so it is very unlikely that there is any hallucinations. Would love to hear more feedback from you if you give Recall a try.

Kay Kwak
Launching soon!

Hmm... Using this, I’ll be able to reduce a lot of frustrating tasks where I can't remember things. It’s really impressive how it focuses on meaningful connections rather than just relying on keywords! Congrats on the launch !🎉

Paul Richards

@kay_arkain Thanks Kay. That means a lot as we spent a lot of time trying to get that right. We are also still actively working on it to make it even better.

Gianmaria Caltagirone

I immediately downloaded the app on my iPad and, aside from a small Chrome reminder (“switch to Chrome”) after logging in with Google — which I couldn’t resist clicking, leading me to close and reopen the app — it seems really well built and promising. I’m curious to test the desktop version and explore all the hidden features of this seems unique browser :)

Paul Richards

@gianmaria_caltagirone Thanks Gianmaria, definitely do try it on desktop as the mobile apps are still in beta. Would love to hear more feedback after you try it out!

Dimah Snisarenko

Ahh, happy to see Recall here! Upvoted! Guys, this is the best AI summariser and knowledge manager.

Paul Richards

@sneas Thanks Dimah! Really appreciate it!

M S Sulthan
This would definitely help in sorting and recalling from a large personalised database.
Paul Richards

@mssulthan thanks for the message. Would love to get your feedback if you try out the product.

Evak Chan

Congrats! How does Recall support the integration of browsing history across devices and platforms?

Paul Richards

@evakk Hi Evak. Thanks for the question. We have a browser extension that find connections in realtime while you are browsing. We do not look at your browser history and do not send content to our servers (unless you explicitly save something to be added to your Recall knowledge base).

Rafa Guimarães
Launching soon!

Very cool! I've seen Rewind doing something similar, right? What do you do that they don't?


Congrats on the launch!

Sankari Nair

@rafa_bg Hello! Rewind records everything you do on your device (and day with their wearables) where as Recall does not record anything. We are more an AI knowledge base which now resurfaces content from our knowledge base as you browse!

Rafa Guimarães
Launching soon!
@sankari_nair got it! Very cool! Is this knowledge base built as the user browses or is it the same for every user? I.e. does it improve over time?
Paul Richards

@rafa_bg Good question Rafa. Rewind records your entire screen and uses the recordings for context in a chatbot. Recall is more of a knowledge base / note taking app where you can save content - then when you are browsing the web and related content comes up, Recall will highlight those connections for you.

Nima Aksoy

Big congrats, Paul & the Recall team, on this epic launch! Augmented Browsing & Chat with Your Content sound like PKM game-changers. Love the local-first approach can’t wait to try it out!

Paul Richards

@nimaaksoy Thanks a lot Nima. Really appreciate the post

Marios @dessign
Congrats.. your website looks very professional 🔥🔥
Sankari Nair

@dessignnet thank you so much! We were super excited to get that live.

Paul Richards

@dessignnet Thanks Marios. Appreciate it!

Sofiia Kunakh

This looks really useful! How does Recall handle privacy when tracking the websites and content you've visited?

Sankari Nair

@sofiia_kunakh Augmented Browsing is l local first, so nothing leaves your device! There is no tracking / storage of where you go.

Paul Richards

@sofiia_kunakh Thats a great question. We store your entire knowledge base locally (in IndexedDB in your browser) - we then do entity extraction on each webpage you browse to and match those entities with ones that are already saved in your knowledge base this way nothing from the webpage is sent to our servers. Hope that makes sense. Please let me know if you have further questions!

Desmond

Turning clutter into insights! 🌟 Does it support non-text content (e.g., YouTube transcripts, podcasts) to unify multimedia learning?

Paul Richards

@desmond_ren1 Thanks for the question Desmond. Yes it supports Youtube Videos, PDFs and other webpages. We are adding support for podcasts from Apple and Spotify in the coming weeks.

Alex Zadorozhnyi

Congratulation on the launch! Loved the video ❤️

Paul Richards

@alex_der07 Thanks Alex. Appreciate it!