Add multiple chats to one notebook as part of the "Add to Notebook"
Sankari Nair
Right now, you are only able to create a single notebook for a single chat. You often have multiple chats that are relevant to the same notebook, so it would be helpful to be able to:
- add a chat to an existing notebook
- add multiple chats to one notebook
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schroell
Today I use a workaround for this. I create an AI chat on something which is relevant to me, and based on the result I create the notebook with the first chat result. I then continue chatting in this newly created notebook with different scopes of tags in order to add context to this notebook on the same topic.
Obviously it is not replacing the need to be able to merge two notebooks which were built based on chats, or to use several chats and merge them into one notebook. I would also like to refer to a follow-up request which I did just a couple of days ago, which is also related to creating reports based on multiple chat notebooks https://feedback.recall.it/feature-requests/p/add-the-ability-to-create-detailed-lengthy-reports-based-on-a-prompt-across-your
Sankari Nair
Merged in a post:
Promote chat outputs to standalone cards with auto-tagging
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Ricardo Youle
Recall's chat feature creates two very different artifacts that currently share the same save flow:
- Inline source-card chat: Conversations with a specific video or article that enrich understanding of that source.
- Standalone syntheses: Chat outputs that stand on their own (comparisons across cards, condensations of multiple sources, frameworks built from saved content)
Today, only the second type reliably becomes its own card, and the path to get there isn't obvious. As a result, many valuable inline chats live tucked inside source cards where they're hard to revisit, while the syntheses that do become standalone cards often land untagged.
Why this is worth solving:
Recall 2.0 frames it well: "your knowledge is your edge." Captures alone don't create that edge, the synthesis layer does (the comparisons, condensations, and frameworks users build through chat). There's a real opportunity to make those syntheses a first-class artifact in the UI, which would compound the value of everything users save.
Proposal
After a meaningful chat exchange, offer three explicit save intents:
- "Add to this card's Notebook": Low-friction default, attaches the exchange to the source card (current behavior);
- "Save as new Card" - Promotes the chat into a standalone card with a small modal: editable title, auto-suggested tags (including a pre-checked "Chat Result" tag), and an optional "link source" checkbox;
- "Save as Insight" (stretch): For example, auto-tags "Top Picks" + "Chat Result" for outputs the user wants to revisit often.
Compounding features
- Auto-tag chat-born cards at save time: detect chat origin → suggest "Chat Result"; detect referenced source cards → suggest their creator and topic tags.
- Visual badge on chat-born cards in Notebook views (a small chat-bubble icon) so users can distinguish their own syntheses from captured media at a glance.
- Retroactive promotion: a "Promote this exchange to a new card" option in chat history, so valuable inline chats already buried in source cards can be elevated.
- Clearer naming: refining "Save to Notebook" into more specific verbs like "Attach to this card" vs. "Create new card from chat" would make the mental model click instantly.
How this complements existing work
As chat becomes more powerful at synthesizing across time, sources, and topics, having a clean path to preserve those outputs as discoverable cards multiplies the long-term value. Smarter chat + easier promotion = a knowledge base that genuinely compounds.
Outcome
A small UI change with outsized impact: users develop the daily habit of asking "Should this become its own card?" — and the answer is one click away. The result is a knowledge base where the most valuable artifacts (the user's own thinking) are surfaced rather than buried.
Sankari Nair
Hey Ricardo, this makes sense. I was actually merging it into a different request that I've made. Let me know if the feature request I've merged it into makes sense. I just want to keep your one related, as you have a little bit more depth to your request.
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Ricardo Youle
Hey Sankari Nair, this makes total sense. They are really two sides of the same coin. Both come down to giving the "Add to Notebook" flow more flexibility than the current one. Happy to keep mine linked as the related/deeper request. Thanks for looping me in!
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Pete Bell
Ricardo Youle
You are right, "Add to [this card's] Notebook" is the current default available at the end of every Chat interaction.
Up to now, I've used that same inbuilt AI chat to perform the "Save as new Card" function, as well as propose additional tags, etc. Could that also work for you as a workaround in the interim?
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Ricardo Youle
Thanks Pete Bell, and sorry for the slow reply! Yeah, that works for me in the interim. I've been doing the same thing, using the AI chat to draft the card and suggest tags before saving.
The only catch is it relies on me remembering each time, so a lot of chats still end up buried. Solid workaround for now though. Appreciate the tip!