Recall

"No em dashes, no unnecessary colons, and please stop trying to be funny." Tired of writing the same instructions to your AI over and over? Introducing Recall AI Personas. A saved prompt that gives your AI a consistent role, tone, and set of rules. Build a research persona that cites every source. A writing one that keeps copy clean. A fun one for the days you need it. #AI #recall #prompt

Or read his entire 9-step guide here 👉 docs.recall.it/use-cases/work…

Watch Ricardo's full walkthrough here 👉 youtube.com/watch?v=iPzVPI…

If your knowledge tool disappeared tomorrow, would you still know why you save things? That question comes from Trail 1 of @ricardoyoule's guide, and it's harder to answer than it looks. #SecondBrain #KnowledgeManagement #PKM #Learning #Productivity #AItools

@ricardoyoule shared an inspiring, valuable and beautifully written 9-chapter guide on his experience building a second brain with Recall. Here's a sneak peek, but don't miss the full trail: docs.recall.it/use-cases/work… Trail 1 - The Collector's Trap: The collector's trap is saving content endlessly without ever using it. A scattered knowledge base isn't proof you're undisciplined, it's proof of chaos. The fix is to stop collecting for its own sake and start integrating what you save by connecting cards and asking your knowledge base questions. Trail 2 - The Discovery: This is where the shift begins. Stop asking "where should I file this?" and start asking "what does this remind me of?" Going from treating Recall as a read-it-later app to treating it as a connection machine is what turns collected data into actual knowledge. Trail 3 - The Audit: Something a lot of us are guilty of neglecting. Run a monthly three-step audit that involves deleting meaningless tags, separating the content you collected from the content you created, and merging or splitting tags that have drifted out of balance. Treat it as an emotional reset, not just a technical chore. Trail 4 - The Tagging Constitution: Four rules to keep your knowledge base from drifting back into chaos. Give every card a layer tag and a format tag, save the synthesis instead of the raw AI conversation, tag immediately instead of later, and treat your monthly tidy-up as a must-do, not an optional chore. Trail 5 - The Five Habits: Five habits that keep a Recall system running without willpower. Pre-screen before you save (so switch auto-save off), keep tags tidy as you go, chat with your own notes and not just outside sources, swap doom-scrolling for a Recall Review, and use the right tool for the moment you're in. Trail 6 - The Compounding Edge: Why building this second brain system doesn't pay off right away. When you link cards together, the reward doesn't show up straight away. It can take months. Just collecting cards on its own never builds into anything, only connecting them does. So the trick is to keep adding and linking, even during the slow early stretch when it feels like nothing's happening, instead of sitting back and waiting for results. In his own words, "I won't tell you it's working. I'll tell you it's compounding, and those are different things.

He almost abandoned his second brain at month two. A tidy knowledge base and nothing to show for it. Until he stopped just saving and started chatting with it. @ricardoyoule was saving, tagging and building this whole thing, and none of it was giving anything back. He felt like he was just collecting and not utilising the knowledge he was saving. But then something changed. As he puts it, "asking my own saved content the right questions until the scattered pieces became a single thought." In other words, he wasn’t getting generic AI answers, but answers from content he had saved and seeing connections he saved weeks apart, finally speaking to each other. Join us on Reddit for an AMA with Ricardo to discover his journey building a second brain, and don't miss his full 9 trail guide. Join the AMA: reddit.com/r/getrecall/s/… #secondbrain #knowledge

Deep research and writing in your own voice Pull from your sources, then draft from a custom persona built on your inspirations and your best practices. Research and writing that sounds like you, grounded in what you've read. 👉recall.it/usecases?card=…

Curate a recommendation engine grounded in your taste Save the movies you love. Give feedback on them. Now your recommendations come from your exact taste and genres, not some algorithm optimizing for watch time. 👉 recall.it/usecases?card=…

Why do Recall users churn? A survey triggers upon cancellation that comes straight from our CEO, to get the real reason. People weren't leaving over price, a missing feature, or competition. The majority were leaving because they never knew what to use Recall for. They never found that workflow that clicked. Introducing the Recall use case hub. 👉 lnkd.in/eFptSiTS From building a recommendation engine grounded in your own taste. All the way up to deep research and writing in your own voice, drafted from a persona that pulls from your inspirations. Across all the use cases, one thread is consistent - AI is only ever as valuable as the knowledge you feed it. #aitips #secondbrain

The godfather of the Second Brain put Recall up against the tools his team uses every day. 3 weeks, unscripted, real work. Here's what happened 👇

@vladzima Love it! Do check out our graph view tutorial to help navigate it and uncover interesting connections: youtu.be/EyC1P3hyMgI?si…

a graph of my bookmarks in @getRecallAI (●ω●)

Stop losing yourself in AI. Build a loop where your knowledge compounds and you write things only you could.

#6 Cross-reference The final step before you publish. More than a spell check. Fact-check against your own knowledge and sources so what goes out holds up.

AI slop feels like a pandemic. The real problem isn't the writing. In fact, most people aren't even writing anymore, they're just prompting! The real problem is where your answers come from. Every answer AI gives you is grounded in just two things: the public internet, and your own chat history. The average of what everyone else has already said, plus a remix of what you said before. Nothing new, nothing that's actually yours. That's how you lose your perspective and start sounding like everyone else. Here's the 6-part workflow that fixes that. youtu.be/xuDUYjh6SfQ?si… #aislop #aiwriting #airesearch #aitools