You know the frustration of giving your AI the same instructions over and over. No em dashes, no unnecessary colons, more professional please. Well, those days are over!

A persona is simply a set of instructions you give Recall once that tells it how to respond. Think of it as a consistent role, a consistent tone, and a consistent set of rules it follows before it generates anything. You set it once, and it just works from then on. Open the Recall Global Chat and click on the icon in the top left-hand corner to create your first persona.

Read the Personas docs.

We have been having a lot of fun testing this over the last few days. Personas are new and we are still iterating, so please try building one for research and one for writing, then let us know how they fit into your workflow and how we can improve them.

Hello everyone, a few simple yet impactful updates to Recall, with more to come soon.

We sat down with AI consultant Paul Phelps, who uses Recall as his second brain. He walked us through how he captures research, client notes, and long-form reading in one place, and how he relies on chat and spaced repetition to actually retain and resurface what he saves.

Want to share how you use Recall? We'd love to feature you. Book a slot with Nicole to tell us about your use case.

This update is packed with improvements across Recall, the big one being multi-select, so you can now export and chat with several cards at once. Worth reading the notes in full. There are a good number of fixes in here that should make everything run smoother.

Tip: hold Shift, click your first card, then click the last card in the range to select everything in between.

We've been putting Claude Opus 4.8 and GPT-5.5 through their paces for research and writing inside Recall. All the details of the three-prompt test for research writing and recommendations in our blog.

We are starting to scope what's next. Stay tuned, and thank you for all the input in helping us shape the upcoming roadmap.

This week we focused on making it easier to get help and find answers. Feeling stuck? Ask chat for help and you'll get answers directly from Recall's help docs. We also brought Claude Opus 4.8 to Max, launched a comparison hub, and started a Reddit community. Thank you to everyone who joined the AMA. It was a very warm welcome to kick us off.

We're also digesting all of our feedback from the Recall 2.0 form. If you haven't already shared your comments, please do, as we'll be using this to help improve and decide what's next.

Max subscribers now have access to Anthropic's latest and most capable model. You'll get sharper, more thoughtful responses when you chat with your knowledge base. We're still busy working on head-to-head comparison content on which model to use when. More to come here.

If you ever need help, you can simply head to the Recall chat and ask. For example "how do I export a note?", you'll see that step in the chat. This should really help you navigate Recall, since you'll get guidance straight from the chat.

If you hit an error in Recall, you'll be taken straight into a help flow. You can also send a bug report any time from Settings → Help → Report a bug. Just describe what happened, attach a screenshot or screen recording if it helps, and submit. You'll get a confirmation once it comes through, so you're never left wondering whether it sent. Bug reports go straight to the Recall developer team.

We launched a comparison hub, starting with our first head-to-head, Recall vs NotebookLM. See how the two stack up, or browse the full comparison. We'd love your feedback.

We launched our official Recall subreddit, a place to share workflows, ask questions, and tell us what to build next. Thank you to everyone who joined the AMA.

The pop-up browser extension is back! It was a tough decision, but we've kept the strongest features from the side panel so you get the best of both worlds. See what else is new below.

The extension now opens directly on the page you're on, with its own state for every tab.

You can now ask the AI to do several things at once (for example, "create three tags and assign them to all my cards") and approve or reject each part of the plan individually.

It's been a month since the big launch of Recall 2.0. We've taken some time to rest and recover, while bashing bugs, smoothing out the experience, and figuring out what's next. Want to help shape what's next for Recall? Check out our "What's Coming" feature to share your input and help shape the future of Recall.

You can now upload multiple PDFs at once instead of one at a time.

Use the share sheet to now share PDFs directly from your mobile phone to the Recall app. Recall ingests the PDF directly, including when the app is launched from a cold start.

when navigating to and from cards, plus general UX polish for card navigation.

on cards in the tag tree, chats, and chat citations.

for developers integrating with Recall. See docs here.

Summarization and other AI actions now use the full content of your note, including attached files.

via the browser extension.

The upload area hides the heading once files are selected, shows a scroll indicator for long file lists, and floats the action buttons in a tidier footer.

Scrollbars are hidden on mobile for a cleaner, more native feel.

Text file previews load more reliably and handle edge cases better.

X posts now save on mobile. As a recap, we support an expanded amount of content:

With more to come. You can see the full list of content we support here.

Items created from PDF files no longer fail to generate connections when they don't have a source URL.

Resolved an issue where the quiz screen could get stuck loading indefinitely.

Resolved issues in the tag tree to make it more reliably across both the app and the browser extension, preventing tag organization issues.

no longer navigates to the login screen.

fixed.

You can hold down Command/control and click on a card and it'll open in a new tab. This fixes a regression that was introduced.

, including card corner radius, safe area padding in the editor, and top inset padding on the hero image.

The app no longer crashes on iOS Safari below 16.4 and other older WebKit engines. On unsupported browsers, rendering falls back to CommonMark.

We're heads-down on a few things over the coming weeks:

We're going through the app end-to-end to make navigation, interactions, and visual hierarchy feel more natural. Less friction, fewer dead ends, more "where I expected it to be."

Easier to find answers when you're stuck, with more discoverable docs, in-app guidance, and faster paths to support.

Two of the most-requested basics. Search is getting smarter and more forgiving. Export is getting more flexible so your knowledge base stays portable.

We've decided to move forward with the original version of the browser extension, which was a pop-up. The reason for this is that it will provide support across more browsers. It will enable you to create recall cards on multiple pages at the same time, which was a feature that was missed. We will enhance the new browser extension so that it will be locked by default and you can resize it.

this will require some significant investment, so we will be making progress toward it and will come a little further down the line. It's on our radar and something we are working toward.

We've seen an increase in shared cards lately, and it feels like the right moment to make it easier for the great content being created in Recall to reach others who'd benefit from it.

The idea: when you share content publicly, you get a public Recall profile with a bio and a feed of your shared cards and collections. You can curate collections like "Best resources on agentic AI" or "My favourite recipes" and share them as a playlist of summaries. Others can discover your content, like, comment, save it to their own Recall, and follow you for new posts.

Think of it as a lightweight, Recall-native way to share what you're already learning, without the effort of writing a Medium post or the friction of sign-ups for readers.

We need your feedback on this. Please check out the feature request and add your thoughts.

Today we are indescribably excited to bring to you our biggest update yet.

What started as a simple Hacker News post from Paul in November 2022, "A tool to help you remember shit you are interested in," has, three years later, transformed from a summarizing tool into a platform that brings your knowledge to the forefront.

Recall 2.0 isn't just a feature launch. There has been a series of updates building to this point. What we've envisioned is a place where people intentionally engage with their saved content, learn from it, and bring that knowledge to the center.

Everyone is looking to AI for answers. But with Recall, you can prioritize your own knowledge first and foremost. Choose to chat with your saved insights and invite the internet in as a supplement. That's the priority order we believe it should follow.

This update lets you get answers that no other AI can provide, as it is grounded in the sources you intentionally chose to save and the notes you specifically took. Ask questions, and Recall pulls from your curated knowledge base.

Choose to chat with your own knowledge base, the internet, or both.

Pick from frontier AI models like GPT 5.4, Claude, Gemini (on the max plan)

Ask powerful, open-ended questions across your knowledge:

Play content directly inside Recall, upload files and images.

Recall's API and MCP are finally here! Bring your personal knowledge into other tools and workflows to amplify your impact.

A complete UI/UX revamp paired with a new brand and domain, find us at our new home: www.recall.it

Major backend upgrades deliver significant performance improvements, especially on mobile

Now supporting X and Reddit imports to capture insights from more sources

For power users ready to push the boundaries of personal knowledge management, we now offer Recall Max:

We’ve just released an update to the browser extension.

The extension now opens in the browsers side panel, which means it will no longer cover part of your search. The extension also remains open as you search, so feel free to switch between tabs and pages as you’re doing your deep dives. Plus, we’ve integrated Listen Mode into the extension. So now, you can listen to your content in that familiar voice you’ve grown accustomed to over the past week!

We’ve got some really exciting updates on the horizon! We can’t wait to share what we’ve been working on with you.

We've just shipped one of our most requested features. With Listen Mode, any content you save to Recall (articles, podcasts, YouTube videos, PDFs, web pages) can now be summarized and read back to you as audio. Pick from our library of built-in voices, or clone a voice of your own.

I cloned my dad's voice so he can read me my morning podcast summary. Check us out in action below!

This is v1. Coming soon: audio playback in Reader mode and playback from the browser extension. Behind the scenes, we are also working on some massive updates. Really excited for what's to come.

A few small yet critical updates as we are heads down behinds the scenes preparing for something bigger!

We've completely revamped the Recall Referral Program.

Here's how it works:

The new referral modal gives you full visibility into your referrals with easy ways to invite others. Works on mobile too! Head over to the 🎁 icon in your Recall app to get started!

We know auto connections and tags aren't for everyone. Some of you want more added automatically, others want it off entirely for more manual control. You now have settings to control whether connections and tags are automatically created when saving items, available in both the app and extension.

Lots more to come as we smooth out onboarding, but we've already shipped some nice tweaks: automatic detection of whether the browser extension is pinned, social links and a "Contact Support" button in Help & Feedback, and a bunch of small UX and UI improvements to make the first-run experience feel tighter.