Take Notes in Recall With the Block-Style Editor

Recall features a powerful block-style editor that brings note-taking directly into the app. Your journals, study notes, and meeting notes have the same AI features as your saved content: Summaries, Chat, Quiz, and Automatic Connections.

Everything in One Place

With your personal notes and saved content together, Recall gives you a personalized AI experience. Ask: "Create a sleep routine based on the Huberman podcasts I saved and my sleep journal entries from this month." Get advice based on what you’ve saved (videos, podcasts, PDFs, articles, etc) and what you’ve written, not generic tips.

What is a Block-style Editor?

A block-style editor treats each piece of content as an individual, movable unit. When you start typing in the Recall Notebook, you create a text block. But blocks go far beyond text: you can add images, tables, code blocks, formulas, to-do lists, and more.

• Type / anywhere in your Recall notebook and you’ll see a menu of content blocks you can add. This means you can quickly insert exactly what you need without hunting through toolbar buttons.
• To add a new block, hit the + sign to create a new block below the current block. Hold down the Option key and hit the + sign to create a new block above the current block.

Transform Blocks

Any block can be converted into a different type. Click the ⋮⋮ symbol and select Turn into to transform your content. Turn a paragraph into a bulleted list, or a quote into a heading.

Rearrange Blocks

Use the ⋮⋮ button to drag and drop blocks anywhere in your notebook. Reorder your thoughts, restructure sections, or group related content with a simple drag.

How to Access the Editor

The editor is available in the Recall Notebook whenever you:

• Create a new note by clicking the pen icon (✎) next to the Add Content button in the top right corner of the home page.
• Save any content to Recall (videos, podcasts, articles, documents, etc.) and open the Notebook tab. Your notes live right next to the original content, making it easy to jot down thoughts while you’re reading.
• Click the Recall browser extension (the notebook there is also editable with the same rich formatting).

Types of Blocks

There are many different types of content blocks you can add to Recall. Use / or + to bring up the block menu and choose from the following:

Basic Blocks

• Text: The foundation of your notes. Start typing to create a text block.
• Headings: Six levels of headings (H1-H6) to structure your notes and create a clear hierarchy.
• Quotes: Highlight important passages or add blockquotes to your notes.
• Callouts: Draw attention to important information with styled callout boxes.

Lists

• Bulleted lists: Organize information in unordered lists.
• Numbered lists: Create ordered lists for step-by-step instructions or ranked items.
• To-do lists: Add checkboxes to track tasks right alongside your notes. Useful for meeting notes where you want to capture both what was discussed and what needs to get done.

Organization Blocks

• Table of Contents: Automatically generate a table of contents based on your headings.
• Toggles: Create collapsible sections to keep your notes organized and hide detailed content until needed.

Advanced Blocks

• Images: Add visual content to your notes.
• Tables: Create tables to organize information in rows and columns. You can apply background colors to cells to highlight important data, and resize columns and rows by dragging their edges. Perfect for tracking anything from weekly schedules to research data.
• Code blocks: Format code with proper syntax highlighting. We support Bash, CSS, HTML, JavaScript, JSON, Markdown, Python, Shell, and TypeScript. The code will be color-coded to make it easier to read and debug.
• LaTeX equations: Write mathematical and technical equations using LaTeX formatting. These can be inline (within a paragraph) or as standalone blocks, so whether you’re writing “E=mc²” in the middle of a sentence or displaying a complex calculus equation, it will render properly.

Interact With Your Notes Using AI

All of Recall’s AI features work on your personal notes:

• Quiz Yourself - Go to the Quiz tab and click “Generate questions” to create an AI-powered quiz from your notes. This turns your study notes or journal entries into active learning questions. Learn more here
• Chat With Your Notes - Go to the Chat tab to ask questions about your notes. You can clarify concepts, search across multiple notes, or ask the AI to identify patterns you might have missed. Learn more here
• AI Summaries - Type / in your notebook and select an AI action to generate a summary of your note. Choose between concise or detailed summaries.
• Automatic Connections - Go to the Connections tab and click “Generate Connections” to automatically extract connections from your notes. The AI will identify related concepts and link them together, or you can create your own manual connections. Learn more here

Quick Linking

In the Recall Notebook Tab, you can create connections in two ways:

1. Highlight text and click the ⚡ lightning bolt.
2. Use [[ to link notes, just like your favorite note-taking apps.
3. Type / in your notebook and select Insert reference to create a connection from your note to another. Learn more here

Use Cases

One place for all your thinking. Whether it’s study notes with complex equations, meeting notes from work, daily journals, or project planning docs, everything lives in one place with AI that understands it all.

• Study Smarter: Take lecture notes with complex equations, save course materials, then quiz yourself on everything at once. Chat to clarify confusing concepts using YOUR actual study materials.
• Quick Capture: Capture thoughts instantly in meetings, shower thoughts, random insights. Link them together and never lose an idea. It’s always in Recall and searchable forever.
• Personalized Advice: Save podcasts and videos from experts in fitness, productivity, cooking, or any domain. Chat with YOUR saved content and notes for recommendations based on what you’ve actually consumed and tried.
• Research & Writing: Save everything (even dense PDFs), take notes, then chat to synthesize themes, find gaps, or generate fresh angles. Your work is built on YOUR unique knowledge base.
• Link Your Thinking: Your ideas become a connected web, automatically. Discover insights hiding in your own knowledge and see connections your brain made subconsciously.
• Reflective Journaling: Write daily journals, then chat with them to spot patterns in your moods, triggers, or growth over time. Understand yourself better with insights that are invisible from day to day.