Projects and threads

Recall finds projects from the work itself: a repo, a document, a site, the people you talk to about it. Names are the ones people would use, such as a repo's name or "deel.com". You can rename, merge and archive projects, and move anything to another project.

The project page

Click a project name on Today, or choose Open project page in Loops.

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   Back to Today. Returns to the Today tab.
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   Project name and ⋯ menu. Rename, merge or archive the project. A name you give it stays; Recall never renames it after that.
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   Topics and threads. How many tasks (listed as topics) and threads the project holds.
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   Active / Done. Shows open tasks or finished ones.
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   NOTES. Add a project note and press Add.
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   Open project note. Tick it to archive it.
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   A task. Tick to mark it done. Click it to list its threads.
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   ACTIVE. The task's status.
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   Threads, time, last touched. How many threads, the time spent and when you last worked on it.

Each task row also has a move icon for Move to project…. If Recall merged two tasks, the project page offers Undo for 14 days.

The thread page

Click a thread anywhere (a timeline block, a task, a note) to open its page.

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   Project and Move to project… Where the thread is filed, and the picker to file it elsewhere.
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   Title and pencil. Click the pencil to rename the thread.
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   Time and pace. Time held, when it was last active, and how the session went.
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   Return to session. Shows the restore checklist for this thread.
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   SESSION SUMMARY. What was done, and your note with its age.
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   CONTEXT STACK. The windows of this thread and when each was last seen.
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   PRIMARY. The window you were last on. It comes to the front when you return.
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   SESSION TIMELINE. When each app and window came up.
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   WHY THIS THREAD? Why Recall offers this thread, for example recently active or a deep work session.
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    RETURN PREVIEW. What returning will reopen.
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    HELD QUIETLY · LOCAL ONLY. All of this stays on your Mac.

Move to project

One picker re-files anything: a task or thread on Today, the project page or a thread page, and every Loops row, including asks, agent sessions and notes.

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   Move to project, Cancel. Cancel closes the picker and moves nothing.
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   Search projects. Type to filter.
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   Active projects. The project with the newest work comes first. The item's current project is not listed.
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   Last filed. When work was last filed to each project.
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   New project… Creates a project with the name you type and moves the item into it.

What Recall learns from a move

• A task or thread stays where you put it. If one repo or document clearly made up that work, it files itself to that project from now on.
• Recall doesn't learn from things that were only on screen nearby, and it won't move a repo that is the core of another project. The item itself still moves.
• An agent session files its whole repository under the project.
• An ask files that person's other open asks in the same app, and their new ones.
• A project note moves to the new project.
• Moving it again replaces the earlier choice.

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