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.
