AI Notes: Journaling, Ideas, and Everything Worth Remembering

Q: How do I take notes in Recall?

Click the pen icon next to Add Content on web or mobile to create a blank note. Type / anywhere in the notebook to open the block editor. Each note is saved as a card in your knowledge base alongside the articles, videos, and podcasts you've saved.

Q: Can I connect my notes to other content?

Yes. Link a note to any other card by typing [[ and choosing what to reference, or highlight text and click the connections icon. Recall also surfaces automatic connections between related ideas.

Journal your days, capture stray ideas, and write down what you learn. In Recall, your notes don’t sit in a silo. They join everything you read, watch, and listen to, so you can connect them, chat with them, and actually remember them.

Your own notes are some of the most valuable content you have: your journals, the ideas you don’t want to lose, your daily reflections, and the takeaways you write down after reading or listening to something. But in most apps they sit in a silo, cut off from everything you’re learning, and you rarely open them again.

Recall changes that. Your notes live in the same knowledge base as every article, video, and podcast you save, so your thinking and your sources sit side by side. You can connect a note to the content that sparked it, chat with your notes in plain language (Recall answers from your own knowledge first, before the internet), and even quiz yourself on what you’ve written so it sticks.

Why use Recall for your notes

Notes that live alongside your content: every note sits next to the articles, videos, podcasts, and PDFs you save, so your ideas and the sources behind them are in one connected place.
Chat with your own notes, knowledge first: ask questions across your notes and Recall answers from what you’ve written and saved before reaching for the internet, so the response is grounded in your actual thinking.
Quiz yourself on your own notes: turn your notes into quizzes and review them with spaced repetition, so the ideas you capture move into long-term memory instead of fading.
Connect ideas automatically: Recall links related notes and content for you, and you can add your own connections by hand for a web only you would build. See Connect Content.
Capture anywhere, in Markdown: write with the pen icon on web and mobile, import Markdown from Notion, Obsidian, or Apple Notes, or share text files into Recall from your phone.

For example, you start a weekly journal in Recall. Over a few months you tag entries by theme, and Recall connects them to articles and podcasts you saved on the same topics. When you ask “what patterns show up in my productivity notes?”, Recall surfaces the themes across months of your own writing.

What you’ll build

A note-taking habit in Recall, from daily journals to project notes and stray ideas
Nested tags that keep notes organized over time, like Journals/2025/March or Projects/Recall
Connections between your notes and the people, places, and concepts they mention
Conversations across your notes that surface themes and patterns in your own writing
Quizzes from your notes so the ideas you capture actually stick

The note-taking workflow, step by step

Whatever you capture, the flow is the same: write, connect, chat, and remember. The example uses journaling, but the same steps work for meeting notes, project logs, or any notes you take. Expand any step to see how it works.

Part 1Write a note

Capture your thinking before it disappears. In Recall, a note is a card in your knowledge base from the moment you create it.

Add a note: click the pen icon (✎) next to Add Content in the top right of the app to create a new note.
Format your note: type / anywhere in the notebook to open the editor menu (headings, tables, to-do lists, code blocks, callouts, and more). See Note-taking in Recall for a full walkthrough of every block type and how to rearrange them.
Import Markdown files: upload .md or .txt files through Add Content, including bulk imports from Notion or Obsidian (up to 10,000 notes per batch). On mobile, create blank notes with the pen icon (✎) or share text and Markdown files from other apps into Recall. Download Recall on the App Store or Google Play.
Add a tag: use nested tags like Journals/2025/Month to keep notes organized over time.
Add a title: include the date, for example “1 October 2025.”
Start typing: write in whatever structure suits you using Recall’s block-style editor.

Example: Each morning you create a dated note under Journals/2025, type / to add a heading and a to-do list, and jot down a quick reflection on the day before.

Part 2Connect it to people, places, and ideas

Connections turn isolated notes into a web you can navigate. Based on the themes or keywords in a note, link it to people, places, emotions, and concepts.

Create connections with [[: type double square brackets ([[) to link your note to people, places, emotions, or concepts, just like wiki-style links in Obsidian or Roam. A dropdown lets you link to an existing card, a web-enriched note (like a Wikipedia entry), or a new blank card.
People: type [[ and enter a name like “Mum,” then create a card for them, tag it as a person, and add notes about them over time.
Emotions and concepts: type [[ and enter something like “Angry,” then select the Wikipedia page to enrich your note with context.
Connections icon: highlight any text and click the connections icon to turn it into a connection.
Automatic connections: Recall also links your note to related notes and saved content on its own, so your journals connect to the articles and podcasts on the same themes. See Connect Content and Note-taking in Recall for more on manual and automatic linking.

Slash vs. double brackets

Type / to open the editor menu for formatting blocks (headings, tables, to-do lists, and more). To create connections, use [[ instead.

Example: A journal entry about a hard conversation links to the person involved and to an article on communication you saved last month.

Part 3Chat with your notes

This is where notes stop being a static archive. Open global chat in the left panel by clicking the AI icon. Recall answers from your own knowledge first, before the internet, so the response is grounded in what you actually wrote.

Single-note chat: on a card, open the Chat tab to chat with one entry, for example to analyze your day or pull out what mattered.
Chat across all your notes: in global chat, @ mention a tag. Once you have a collection, ask bigger questions:

"What are the core psychological themes in my @Journals? List them in chronological order and describe how they evolve."
Combine notes with your sources: bring your saved research into the same answer:

"Based on these themes, how can I optimize my daily routine using the research in @Health?"

Example: You ask Recall to find recurring themes across three months of journals, and it answers from your own writing first, surfacing a pattern you hadn’t noticed.

Part 4Remember it with quizzes

Your notes are worth remembering, not just storing. Recall lets you review your own writing the same way you review anything else you save.

Quiz yourself on your notes: generate quizzes from your own notes so the ideas you captured actually stick.
Spaced repetition: Recall resurfaces what you’re still struggling with over time. See Quiz and spaced repetition.
Search and resurface: find any note with natural language months later, and related notes resurface as you browse with Augmented Browsing.

Example: You turn the key lessons from your project notes into a short quiz, and review them before your next planning session so they’re fresh.

How your notes become part of your second brain

Your own thinking is often the most valuable content you have, and the easiest to lose in a folder you never reopen. In Recall, every note you write joins everything else in your library: your articles, podcasts, videos, and PDFs. Each one is tagged, connected, and made searchable, so a journal entry resurfaces next to the sources that shaped it. That connected, searchable library is your second brain: a place where your ideas and the content that inspired them live and compound together. See how it all fits together in the AI Second Brain guide.

Supported formats and limitations

Recall works with the notes you already write. Here’s what’s supported today and what to know before you save.

Supported

New notes: create blank notes on web and mobile with the pen icon (✎) next to Add Content. Type / in the notebook to open the block editor.
Markdown imports: upload .md files individually or in bulk, including exports from Notion and Obsidian (up to 10,000 notes per import).
Text file uploads: upload .txt files through Add Content, or share them into Recall from other apps on mobile.

Limitations

Bulk Markdown imports are limited to 10,000 notes per batch. Upload additional batches sequentially; Recall will de-duplicate automatically.
Plain text files become paragraph blocks; Markdown files are parsed into formatted notebook content.

For the full list of content Recall supports, see All Supported Content.

Frequently asked questions

How do I take notes in Recall?

Click the pen icon (✎) next to Add Content on web or mobile to create a blank note. Type / anywhere in the notebook to open the block editor for headings, lists, to-dos, callouts, and more. Each note is saved as a card in your knowledge base alongside the articles, videos, and podcasts you’ve saved.

What is an AI notes app?

An AI notes app lets you write notes and then use AI to organize, connect, search, and recall them. Recall goes further than most: your notes live in the same knowledge base as every article, video, and podcast you save, so you can connect your thinking to your sources, chat with your notes in plain language, and quiz yourself on what you’ve written.

Can I chat with my own notes?

Yes. Recall lets you chat with a single note or across all of your notes at once, and it answers from your own knowledge first before reaching for the internet. So you can ask questions like “what are the recurring themes in my journals?” and get an answer grounded in what you actually wrote, not generic web content.

Can AI quiz me on my own notes?

Yes. In Recall you can turn your own notes into quizzes and review them with spaced repetition, so the ideas you capture actually stick. This is one of the things that sets Recall apart from a standard notes app: your notes aren’t just stored, they become material you can actively remember.

How is Recall different from Notion or Obsidian for notes?

Notion and Obsidian store your notes in isolation. Recall keeps your notes alongside the articles, videos, podcasts, and PDFs you save, automatically connects related ideas, lets you chat across your notes and sources together (your knowledge first), and can quiz you on what you wrote. Your notes become part of a living knowledge base, not a separate archive. You can also import your existing Markdown notes from Notion, Obsidian, or Apple Notes.

Can I import my existing notes into Recall?

Yes. Because Recall notes use Markdown, you can import existing notes from tools like Notion, Obsidian, or Apple Notes, up to 10,000 notes per import. Once they’re in Recall, your notes become searchable, connectable, and ready to chat with alongside everything else you save.

Can I connect my notes to other content?

Yes. Link a note to any other card by typing [[ and choosing what to reference, or highlight text and click the connections icon. Recall also surfaces automatic connections between related ideas, so your notes build into a connected web instead of a flat list.

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