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AI-powered knowledge tool that summarizes and organizes online content into a connected knowledge base.

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Handwriting and screenshots become searchable cards, and the extension reaches Safari

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◆Current state
Recall's August release is the broadest in months. OCR turns photos, screenshots and handwritten notes into real cards; the browser extension now runs on Safari and Edge alongside Chrome and Firefox, with connection editing inside the extension; chat proposes questions drawn from the saved library; and content can be added ten URLs at a time or by drag and drop. This follows a July that moved search into the full library page with text and AI modes searching reader content, notes and quizzes rather than titles.
◆Where it's heading
Two threads have been converging all summer. One widens what can enter the library — social posts, Apple News, text and Markdown files, and now anything a camera can photograph. The other makes what is already inside retrievable: full-content search, personas, cross-card chat, and now suggested questions. OCR closes the last major gap on the input side, since paper was the one source that could not get in.
◆Prediction
The mobile search overhaul is explicitly promised and is the most likely next release. Suggested questions plus full-content search point toward retrieval quality inside chat becoming the next area of investment.

◆Recent moves

  1. 27d ago

    OCR turns images into cards; extension reaches Safari and Edge

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    The release that lets paper into the library: OCR converts photos, screenshots and handwriting into real cards, while the extension expands to Safari and Edge and chat begins suggesting questions from saved content. It completes the input-side arc that social saves and file uploads started earlier this summer.

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  2. 1mo ago

    Search moves into the library and reads full content

    Search left the popup for the full library page and began looking through reader content, notes and quizzes rather than card titles, with a switch between exact text and AI semantic matching. Results behave as real cards, so filters and bulk actions apply — the retrieval half of the same arc OCR feeds.

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  3. 1mo ago

    Social saves rebuilt; table view and 62 AI languages

    A reliability release: social capture across Instagram, TikTok, X, LinkedIn, Reddit and Facebook was rebuilt after the first version dropped transcripts, plus a table view and AI language support widened to 62. Fixing a shipped feature rather than adding one, which the entry says outright.

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  4. 2mo ago

    Use Case Hub launches as a guide library

    A documentation and guide hub organized by workflow, persona and content type, answering what people should use Recall for. Useful positioning work, but it is a content resource rather than a product capability.

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  5. 2mo ago

    Instagram and LinkedIn saving, plus text and Markdown upload

    Instagram and LinkedIn join the supported sources, and .txt and .md files can be uploaded with Markdown parsed into notebook content. Another widening of the input surface in the arc OCR later completed.

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  6. 2mo ago

    Custom Personas set standing instructions for chat

    Personas let a user define a role, rules and tone once and have chat follow them across the extension, mobile app and single-card chats. It removes repeated prompt boilerplate rather than changing what the AI can do.

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