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Wolfgang Männel
If I may add: To reduce complexity and to keep the user interface simple, I would not save the original article in a separate window or have an additional button. Instead I would just have a separator after the summary followed by the original article.
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Wolfgang Männel
This is quite an important suggestion.
Saving the original content is a must for and shouldn't be very hard to do.
Very often, I am saving articles because of certains wordings, quotes, graphics etc. Having just the summary is not enough, and just linking to the original article is helpful but not a solution for longer term as links tends to break.
Having the summary in one language is great, but ideally you want to have the original article in the original language in the same article just below the summary.
Before Recall, when I read an interesting article, I saved it as a pdf. In this pdf I then highlight certain passages that are important. Just having a summary is not enough and I would still have to save the original pdf.
If Recall not just generates the summary in a unified language (which I absolutely love) but also saves the original article including graphics, I would no longer have to revert to pdfs.
This feature would completely replace all other knowledge management systems I am using now.
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Paul Richards
Merged in a post:
Option to include the full content of the shared information.
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Lana Droll
For example, when a Wikipedia article is uploaded to Recall, only the abstract or the initial few paragraphs are included in the knowledge card, while the remaining valuable details need to be added, tagged and linked afterwards manually. This feature would automate this process, saving time from organizing, that could be allocated to exploring and learning.
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matar3
This request already exists here https://recall.canny.io/feature-requests/p/save-copy-of-the-original-content
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Olly S
Automatically including a link back to source material would resolve for me
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matar3
Olly S if you click on the globe icon it already sends you back to the source, even thought there's the potential risk that the source web could sonner or later go offline. Give also a look here https://recall.canny.io/feature-requests/p/save-copy-of-the-original-content
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Olly S
matar3 thanks, was using on mobile which i understand has links removed due to app store not liking the number of domains being linked to. believe fix is in progress!
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matar3
SAVE the WHOLE text of the webpage, not only the summary:
The summary function of Recall is actually very very useful, but the drawback is that any summary must necessarily cut some pieces of information, so it contains less information than the source page. It is ok that Recall saves the url of the source page, but there are two possible main flaws:
- the source webpage could go offline sooner or later, thus it’d impossible for us to recover the information (unless someone else saved the page in web.archive.org)
- when doing a full-text search in Recall, it won’t consider all the words in the whole text of the source webpage, but just the words in the summary. In this way it is not difficult to be unable to find later what we saved before (if we just remember some words or a sentence that are present only in the text of the source web page).
My suggestion is that Recall should not only save the summary and the url of the source webpage, but also the whole text of the source webpage: it could even be just a raw text (plain text), but it must be all the text of the source webpage. It’d be nice if a new button were added, like I sketched in the attached image.
Clicking on that new button should open a new window with the raw text of the source webpage. It is important that when performing full-text searches Recall also looks into such raw texts of source webpages. I guess it would not be so difficult to create such new feature (Recall already has access to that raw text, since it uses that text to create summaries of it), and I strongly believe that it would add A LOT of extra-value to Recall: in this way it could become a good alternative to Evernote, Onenote and any other web clipper app, and together with the already available note-taking function Recall would become a real powerful personal knowledge base management tool.
Paul Richards