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Social post-it notes for the internet.
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Ryan Cooley
Recall — Social post-it notes for the internet.
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Recall lets you annotate the internet and tag others to start a discussion in the margins of any website.
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Ryan Cooley
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Hey everyone 😸 My name is Ryan, and I'm excited to share a project I've been working on called Recall. Recall is a Chrome extension that allows you drop comments onto any website and tag others to join the discussion. Think of it as a social post-it note that you can leave anywhere on the internet. I've been fascinated by the idea of a commenting layer on top of the internet. Today, when you want to discuss something you find online, you have two options - you can post to social media, where you have little control over the resulting discussion, or you can post privately in a group chat, where the discussion quickly gets buried. On top of that, many online publications have disabled comment sections on their articles, which used to be the most interesting place to understand diverse perspectives. Recall makes it easy to start meaningful conversations with whoever you choose right in the margins or any webpage. This has been a night and weekend project, and is very much a v1! For now, Recall relies on your Google contacts to let you tag others in your notes (you can also share a link to your note with anyone). I can imagine Recall eventually working with your other social graphs to enable you to tag your Twitter/X followers or newsletter subscribers, for example. Please give Recall a try and post your candid feedback.
Amanda Lin
Great idea - already loving it! Excited to get my friends on too
Alessio Avellan Borgmeyer
Been using it since 2 days and it seems to become a habit among me and some co-workers, congrats Ryan!
Daniel Chen
Congrats for the launch, interesting idea. But, the name “Recall” was very popular in AI category 😀
Ryan Cooley
Maker
@chouti very fair point. I picked the name several months ago, and it's all over the codebase so I felt like I should just own it 😄
Marco Ceccon
This is a really cool idea!! I hope it blows up :-) It would also be cool to add support for youtube videos I love the website design! P.S.: you should update the copyright date on the footer
Ryan Cooley
Maker
@macedonga thank you! and good catch. Fixed for you 🫡
Bon
Congrats on your launch, Ryan! Recall is quite similar to one I had envisioned creating before. And the entire design style of the product is very unique and distinctive!
Toshit Garg
Congrats on launch of Recall....
nick bradford
nice! any plans to implement up/downvoting, filtering, similar?
Jack Bowerman
Love the idea!! Sounds more 'professional' than 'social' though, would be super useful for some teams.
Siyan YANG
We don't need to send links to each other anymore!!!
Ryan Hoover
Nicely designed! I've seen a bunch of others explore similar ideas. I'm curious why none of them took off. Thoughts, @ryanpcooley?
Ryan Cooley
Maker
@rrhoover Thanks! It's a great question. I think there are a few factors that make this hard to nail. First is the limitation of the browser. If you want to create a place for conversation that truly operates across all of the spaces on the internet, you need to go to the browser level. Inherent in that are just a ton of constraints on how and what you can build. FWIW, I think Arc is in a great position to make the experience of cohabitating and conversing on the internet more exciting, because they own the browser! Second is the use case - I've seen a lot of note taking extensions that have a collaboration component, but they are productivity oriented rather than socially oriented. So they stay relatively niche. I also haven't seen these tools make it simple to leverage an existing social graph, which in 2024 feels pretty important given how mature these graphs have become. Ultimately, we all concurrently spend a ton of time on this thing called the internet, but the experience of being there can still feel very isolating and single player. I hope to see more attempts to create a sense of collective presence on the web - be that with Recall or anything else :)
Mandy Hills
This is a cool idea. It reminds me of a book I read about alternative early versions of the internet that never got built.
Ryan Cooley
Maker
@mandy_hills totally! I think this concept of an interoperable layer of conversation across the internet will become much easier to accomplish with broader adoption of web3, which many believe will allow a return to the old ideals of the internet as an open, decentralized network for communication. Right now we are super limited by the browser, and it's been easier to interoperate across browsers and devices if you centralize the space for conversation (ie Twitter).