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Recall release notes, 18 June 2026: Introducing Custom Personas

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.
Learn more:
Read the Personas docs.
Why it's useful
  • Consistency.
     Your brand voice, tone, and rules stay the same across every chat, with no drift.
  • Speed.
     Set your instructions once instead of copy-pasting them into every conversation.
  • Specialization.
     Tailor a persona to a specific job. A research persona goes deep and cites its sources. A writing persona drops the citations so the copy stays clean and on-brand.
What you can do
  • Create a persona
     with a role, a goal, the behaviors and rules you want, and a tone and style.
  • Set custom rules
     that Recall follows every time, such as pulling exact timestamps from YouTube videos, citing every source for research, or avoiding buzzwords and hashtags when writing.
  • Set a default persona
     that persists across the browser extension, the mobile app, and single-card chats. Toggle it on or off whenever you like.
  • Switch personas per task
    , or stay on the standard prompt-free Recall persona as your baseline.
How to create your first persona
  1. Open chat and go to the Personas menu in the left-hand corner.
  2. Click Add new persona and give it a name.
  3. Enter your instructions covering role, goal, behavior, tone, and rules.
  4. Save the persona, then select it in any chat. Set it as your default if you like.
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.