Unlock Insights with AI-driven, multi-perspective questions that transform diverse materials into illuminating visuals, simplifying and enriching your learning, reading, and exploring experiences.
Hi Product Hunt family!
I'm Zhiqi, co-founder and CEO of Recap. Huge thanks to @kevin for hunting us.
What is Recap?
Recap is an AI-powered knowledge platform revolutionizing how you interact with information in today's content-rich world. By leveraging advanced AI insights, Recap helps you transform your learning experience, creating dynamic visuals such as mind maps, timelines, and tables that make understanding and organizing knowledge easier than ever.
Why did we build Recap?
As the team behind Recap, we've spent years in the education and technology sectors, and we understand the challenges of information overload. Recognizing the need for smarter knowledge tools, we developed Recap to make complex topics easier to understand, faster critical thinking, and turn the process into an engaging and enjoyable experience.
What Recap brings to the table?
🧠 Explore Smarter, learn Faster
Our multi-perspective, question-driven insights help you dive deeper into any content, sparking creativity and enhancing understanding, whether you're a student or a professional, or simply curious about a topic.
📊Visual Graphs Simplify Everything
With our intuitive visual tools, you can quickly capture key points and make complex information more digestible, making learning more interactive and enjoyable.
💾Save and Share Effortlessly
Easily store your insights for future reference and share them across devices or with friends in just a few clicks, keeping your knowledge organized and accessible.
🔗YouTube and Web Integration
Recap is optimized for YouTube, providing summaries and timestamps, and our Chrome extension allows you to summarize articles and web pages instantly.
Special Launch Offer
To celebrate our launch, we're offering a 25% off on the first year of Premium Plan exclusively for Product Hunt users until 2/12/2025. 🎁
We're eager to hear your thoughts and feedback. If you're as excited about Recap as we are, we'd love your support! We can't wait for you to experience how it can transform your learning journey.
@kevin@zhiqi_shi The integration of AI with visual tools is a brilliant idea. I love how it simplifies complex information and makes it more engaging. Congrats!
@kevin@javalion Thank you for your support, and I'm sorry for the misunderstanding. We've now adjusted the related text, and it should be clearer. I hope Recap can bring you a wonderful experience.
Recap creates dynamic visuals like mind maps to help users interact with info better. Wow, so interesting! It makes knowledge easy and learning enjoyable.
@mrkelly Yes, visualization not only enhances learning efficiency but also makes the learning process much more enjoyable. I hope Recap brings you a wonderful experience.
Unlock Insights is an absolute game-changer for learning and exploration! The AI-driven, multi-perspective questions bring a whole new depth to understanding complex materials, and the ability to transform them into illuminating visuals is simply brilliant. It’s made my learning and reading experiences not only simpler but also far more engaging and enriching. Highly recommend this to anyone looking to elevate their knowledge journey!
Added the extension and from the first minutes of working with there is an interest in learning it. Super cool mindmap for visuals, it's definitely easier to memorize tons of information. I was surprised to get a video transcript for my language even though I didn't see it on the list originally. Will definitely look into it further. You've done maximum useful thing guys!
@artyom_zhuravlev Thanks for your kind words! Our aim is to help users improving knowledge acquisition efficiency through visualization. We hope Recap provides you with a great experience.
@artyom_zhuravlev I'm really appreciate your feedback! It's awesome to hear you're enjoying the extension and finding the mind map feature helpful. Since it's just the first launch, we're committed to making improvements as we go.
This sounds intriguing! I'm curious, how does the AI actually generate these multi-perspective questions? Also, what kind of materials does it support? It would be great to understand the UX behind this tool. Is there a special way for Makers to integrate it into their current workflows? Looking forward to more details on this launch!
@helloleo By understanding context, the AI can generate questions from multiple agents(like teacher, analysts, manager, etc.) The supported materials in Recap includes: URL, PDF, PPT, DOC, JPG, ect.
@helloleo
1.Each specific industry has its own unique set of credible sources and perspectives for understanding knowledge, which forms the foundation for generating such a wide variety of questions.
2. Currently, we support websites, PDFs, PPTs, DOCs, Markdown files, images, Youtube videos, and more. In the future, even more formats will be supported-stay tuned!
3. For markers, we believe Recap can perfectly replace your browser bookmarks and most knowledge base products. Of course, we also plan to iterate further and support more workflow integrations.
Thank you so much for your support.
@helloleo We can integrate Recap into our workflows seamlessly by using Chrome extension.
It works not only with various written materials but also with Recap for YouTube videos, enhancing your learning process.
Hey, huge congratulations on the launch! I’m really excited about Recap’s unique approach—it digs deep into multiple sources and simplifies everything into mind maps, timelines, and tables. This is a massive win for anyone battling information overload. Can’t wait to see what future integrations you have in store. Well done, and best of luck to the entire team!
🎉 Congratulations on the launch of Recap! This AI-powered platform is a game-changer for anyone looking to streamline their learning experience.I love how it transforms complex information into engaging visuals—such a smart way to tackle information overload!
@shahza1bmushtaq Hahaha 。 Thank you for you reply! i'm really glad you noticed the special support for Youtube.
This is mainly because our team spends a lot of time learning on Youtube. In addition to the user experience itself, it can also be considered a form of self-expression.
Congrats on the launch! 🎉 This feels like a perfect tool for anyone who wants to dive deeper into complex topics or turn reading into an interactive experience.
Congrats on the launch of Recap, Zhiqi! The AI-driven insights and visual tools like mind maps and timelines are brilliant features for both students and professionals navigating information overload. 🙌
Wishing you and the team great success with Recap
@trickle Thank you so much for loving our design! We believe that simplicity and speed are among the the most important principles for productivity tools.
@trickle Thank you so much for you feedback about our design! We're an engineering team that has been working in the Education and Tool Efficiency Fields for many years. We've definitely gone through a lot in our design process. So, getting such positive feedback is a pleasant surprise!
We really hope Recap can be helpful for you!
Hi, team. I've tried Recap and I have to say it's a brilliant idea! There is an issue when I use it to understand a PDF of my product. It seems like cannot understand the pic in a doc very well, right? Will it be supported in the future?
@jackyliu Thank you so much for your positive feedback! We're really glad to hear you find it a brilliant idea. Regarding the issue with understanding images in PDFS, you're right that there can be limitations in how well those are interpreted.
In this version, we're more focused on providing capture content of web links. Of course, enhancing image recognition capabilities is also in our plans for the future, please stay tuned for our upcoming releases.
Recap sounds like a breath of fresh air for anyone looking to enhance their learning and exploration process! The ability to generate AI-driven, multi-perspective questions is brilliant—it's like having a personal tutor guiding you through complex materials. I love how it transforms diverse information into clear visuals, making it easier to digest and retain. This could be a huge help for students, researchers, or even casual readers who want to deepen their understanding without feeling overwhelmed.
Additionally, I think adding features like customizable question styles or integration with note-taking apps could take it to the next level. Being able to tailor the visuals and questions to fit personal learning styles would make Recap even more engaging. Can’t wait to see how this evolves!
@maxwellcole Thank you very much for your feedback! The features you mentioned, like customizable question styles and integration with note-taking apps, are really great. At the moment, we can export visuals to Notion, and we'll look into exporting to more note-taking apps in the future. We'll also consider adding more note-taking apps as input sources. We look forward to your further feedback!
@maxwellcole Thank you for your insightful suggestions regarding customizable question styles and integrations! We are researching the best ways to implement these suggestions.
@dineshan_sithamparanathan Thank you for your support!
We think that a lot of people learn and gather information form Youtube, and using a Chrome extension is one of the best way to collect that learning or reading infos. It really enhances the user experience.We hope Recap can help with that!
This is a fantastic approach to knowledge visualization! The combination of AI-driven analysis with multi-perspective questioning could really transform how we process and retain information. The 600+ upvotes in just a day show I'm not alone in seeing the potential here. The 25% launch discount makes it even more appealing. As someone who deals with lots of complex information daily, having AI help create visual insights could be a game-changer for both learning and presentation. Would love to see how it handles different types of content sources and its visualization capabilities for technical vs. non-technical material.
@xi_z Thank you for your kind words! You've captured the two main differentiators between Recap and other knowledge tools. Wish you have a great experience here.
@xi_z Thank you for your enthusiastic feedback! We're thrilled to hear that you see the potential in our approaches.
We're working on diverse content support and will keep you updated. Hope you have a great journey here.
@xi_z Thank you, Xi! The structured summaries for different types of sources vary, which is why Recap offers multiple expert perspectives and different types of visuals. We will continue to optimize these expert perspectives and make the best visuals even smarter.
Hi Zhiqi, awesome idea cut to the precise needs for summarization of all sources. I wonder can you define the purpose of summarization you are using for? Like can you use it for competitive analysis?
@zoeyhuang Thank your for your appreciation. We believe Recap is best suited for educational and content creator use cases at this moment. However, we've noticed some professional users, such as business analysts and lawyers. We're still debating whether to seriously support these professional use cases within Recap or to develop a separate product to meet their needs better.
I really like the concept of Recap, but I’m curious about its long-term scalability—how will it handle increasing data and more complex workflows? Also, will future updates integrate with other popular tools in the space, or will it stay focused on this core functionality? Excited to see where this goes!
@sujingshen Thank you for your appreciation. I believe Recap will always maintain simplicity in its product design, combining complex and powerful features with agents and more beautiful graphics content. This is Recap's first launch, and we will definitely continue to update it in the future. Stay tuned!
Why when I upload a pdf is it not creating any visuals? I am getting a summary at the top and the expert questions just no visuals. The free version says 3 visuals a day. Thanks!
@ella_dadan Thank you for your feedback. Could you try clicking on the expect-specific questions and see how it works? If it doesn't work, please don't hesitate to reach out to me again.
Congrats on the launch, Zhiqi and team! 🎉 Recap sounds like a game-changer for tackling information overload—love the focus on dynamic visuals like mind maps and timelines. The YouTube and Chrome integration is such a smart addition for making learning seamless across platforms. Definitely giving this a try to organize my chaotic knowledge intake. Wishing you huge success with Recap!
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