Why Recall 9 exists?
When I went on a hunt to find a second-brain app, I had no idea that this field was so vast and the use cases so diverse that it basically became overwhelming. As I kept trying more and more apps, one thing dawned on me: I am not a power user, I don’t want to have conversations with AI agents, and I don’t want them to make changes to my notes on my behalf.
What I wanted was basically a notes app where I could dump all my thoughts, either as text or voice notes, posts that I find on Instagram and X, and links that I find in Chrome so I could later ask AI to find the relevant information for me — not as a message bubble, but as the actual note that I saved.
What it really excels at:
Share posts from Instagram, X, Facebook, or any app for that matter, and it saves the preview, link, text, etc., making it so much easier to search them later.
Quick audio notes and audio transcription so I can search through them.
A really simple note editor — that is enough for most users today.
A Chrome extension so I can save an entire webpage to read later.
Organization — This was really something that I wanted for a long time. I know AI can organize stuff, but that doesn’t mean we shouldn’t have a say. You can create collections yourself, and then AI just recommends which notes should go to which collection.
Image transcription — This was truly surprising to me. I saved a few images of posters and watches that I liked, and to my surprise, it didn’t just let me search the text in the images, but it could actually tell whether the images contained a watch or shoes.
I like the distinction between AI organizing your knowledge and AI taking control of it.
I'm curious what you've learned from early users. Do they end up valuing Recall 9 because AI helps them find things later, or because the product makes it effortless to capture information in the first place without having to think about where it belongs?