A year or so ago I started using a tool called Kortex. The brain child of Dan Koe, it was (at first) fabulous. I used Kortex for writing, taking notes during a Marketing course I was doing, and general content creation.
The AI element came in handy when acronyms were flung about or when I wanted to expand on something we were being taught. All my notes were connected and linked. I loved it.
Then, things changed. I think money became an issue. At some point some of the team were let go. And Kortex became Eden. It wasn't the same. The focus shifted. Eden seems to be doing better now but is far more content creation-focused. I missed the old Kortex.
Not long ago, Recall popped up on my radar. It's not a brand new product (they have over 800,000 users). Version 2.0 had been launched and that's perhaps why I spotted it.
I started slowly. Adding links, podcasts, uploading some Markdown files, tidying up my tags/folders, connecting pieces of information to each other, using AI to work with my content. I started to love Recall.
And, in many ways, it wasn't dissimilar to some of the features I liked in Kortex. Similar but different. But a great tool.
Where Recall works especially well is linking related content. This is always an issue for PKM tools. A lot of the linkage is manual. Great, if you're on the case. Not so helpful if you aren't. Although I have asked Claude to go through my Obsidian Vault and review and link some content in certain projects. That's saved me a bunch of time.
Recall has a Graph. It automatically makes connections for you. The other day I'd added some content and I could see Recall adding the connection. It was a bit like magic.
The summary function is massively helpful. Some YouTube videos are great but long and waffly. Recall short circuits this. Additionally, it will help if you want to remember a particular quote or reference, and will direct you to that timestamp.
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