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Chadwick Dewey
I use Recall as my primary knowledge base and have thousands of saved cards. It's great for capture, but when I need to actually do something with what I've saved — write a research paper, a blog post, build a design brief — I end up routing the work through three or four other tools because Recall has no dedicated space for focused project work.
What I'd love is a Project — a named container I can create for a specific research effort, import relevant cards from my KB into, and work from. The key thing is that the project scopes the experience: when I chat, explore connections, or view the graph within a project, it works from those cards only — not my entire KB.
On top of that, it would be helpful to have a couple of research-specific tools inside the project:
  • A planning space where I can define my thesis, research questions, and what kind of output I'm building toward (academic paper vs. blog post vs. personal reference). Ideally, the AI helps me think through this.
  • Some kind of source health view that tells me things like: how old is my research on average, am I over-indexed on one source type (e.g., lots of podcasts, no white papers), and where are my gaps by topic.
My current workaround: I build my research plan in Claude, have Claude query Recall on my behalf, manually curate cards, copy everything into Notion, organized by sub-question, do supplementary research in NotebookLM, and nothing flows back to Recall. It works, but it's fragmented — and Recall, which holds most of my raw material, ends up being the one tool I'm not actually working inside.
I think this would make Recall the natural home for research work, not just research capture.