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Recall 0.43 · User guide

Using Recall

Recall lives in your Mac's menu bar, follows the work on your screen and groups it into threads and projects. It brings you back to where you were after a break or an interruption, with its AI running on your Mac: you don't create anything, tag anything or start a timer.

This guide walks through every screen in the app. Each screenshot has numbered markers; the list under it explains each one. The screenshots show a fictional day: Jordan, a product designer who also writes code, working on four projects.

Start here

  1. Step 1

    Getting started

    The five setup steps, the two macOS permissions, and your trial.

  2. Step 2

    The menu bar tray

    Your time today, what is waiting on you, and what you worked on.

  3. Step 3

    Smart Return

    The thread you were holding, the note you left, and exactly what will reopen.

All sections

  1. Section 1

    Getting started

    The five setup steps, the two macOS permissions, and your trial.

  2. Section 2

    The menu bar tray

    Your time today, what is waiting on you, and what you worked on.

  3. Section 3

    Smart Return

    The thread you were holding, the note you left, and exactly what will reopen.

  4. Section 4

    Going back to work

    Every way back shows what it will open before anything opens.

  5. Section 5

    Today

    Your day as a timeline of threads, with what to return to and what you owe.

  6. Section 6

    Loops

    Everything still open: people waiting on you, coding agents, your notes, and unfinished work.

  7. Section 7

    Notes

    One line you leave yourself when something pulls you away.

  8. Section 8

    Asks and promises

    What people asked you for in a chat, and what you said you would do.

  9. Section 9

    Coding agents

    Claude Code and Codex sessions waiting on you, and the loops they close.

  10. Section 10

    Projects and threads

    The project page, the thread page, and Move to project.

  11. Section 11

    Nudges and reminders

    The three cases where Recall speaks up, and how it stays quiet.

  12. Section 12

    Feedback

    Report a problem or suggest a feature. The Recall team answers inside the app.

  13. Section 13

    Settings

    All ten sections, from Permissions to About.

  14. Section 14

    Privacy and your data

    What Recall captures, where it stays, what it sends, and how to erase it.

  15. Section 15

    Keyboard shortcuts

    The shortcuts that work from anywhere, and the keys inside a panel.

  16. Section 16

    What's New

    The release notes Recall shows once after an update.

Words this guide uses

Thread
One stretch of focused work on one thing, such as a screen you were designing. Recall names it for you.
Task
Threads about the same piece of work, grouped together. Tasks are what Today and the project page list.
Project
Everything that belongs together: a repo, its documents, its chats. Recall finds projects from the work itself.
Loop
Something still open: a person waiting on you, a coding agent, a note you left, or unfinished work.
Note
One line you leave yourself with ⌥⌘B. Recall shows it first when you come back.
Ask and promise
Something a person asked you for in a chat, or something you said you would do.

Recall 0.43 · Screenshots show a fictional demo day. All people, projects and messages are made up.

Community

Where Recall gets shaped.

The subreddit is public: anyone can read and search it. The Telegram group is smaller, and the people in it see builds before they ship.

Power-user group on Telegram

A smaller group we build with directly. Tell us what broke, what you wish it did, and what you want to try first.

GeneralContext switching casesFeedback and ideasBugs and rough edgesFocus, ADHD and work patternsNew builds and experiments
Join the group

r/joinrecall on Reddit

The open room. Ask questions, report bugs, request features, and read how other people got their focus back. Nothing behind a login.

Open the subreddit