Improved Chat: Knowledge Base + Web 🧠 Curating Knowledge With Recall + AI
The video demonstrates Recall's new chat feature that allows users to build and query a personalized knowledge base using their own curated notes and sources. The speaker argues that curating custom knowledge is essential for standing out in an AI-dominated world where everyone gets the same generic answers.
Summary
The video showcases Recall, a knowledge management tool that combines features from Notion, Obsidian, and NotebookLM into one platform. The main focus is on Recall's new chat functionality that can search three ways: web only, personal knowledge base only, or both combined. The speaker demonstrates how to capture content using Recall's browser extension, which can automatically summarize YouTube videos with timestamps and transcripts. He shows how the system creates connections between notes and visualizes them in a knowledge graph. The core argument is that as AI becomes ubiquitous, personal differentiation comes from curating custom knowledge bases rather than relying on generic LLM outputs. Through practical examples, the speaker demonstrates how asking the same question ('what gives me flow states?') yields generic web results versus personalized answers when filtered through his curated notes. He then shows the hybrid approach, using both his personal knowledge and updated web research to analyze gaps in his understanding of flow states since 2026 research. The system allows users to save chat results as new notes, bulk edit tags, and even connect to external AI agents through APIs. The speaker emphasizes that this approach creates a 'memory layer' separate from any specific AI model, allowing users to maintain their personalized knowledge base as new models emerge.
About this episode
How do we keep our human edge in a world increasingly full of AI? The answer is simpler than you think! Use knowledge + experience to uniquely solve problems & enhance AI tools built on our custom knowledge base, like Recall: https://www.recall.it/?t=wanderloots (wanderloots25 limited time DISCOUNT CODE). Recall is a great example of how to do this. Think of Recall like NotebookLM + Obsidian + Notion - a hybrid system for effortless knowledge management enhancing your learning✨ In this video, I explore how we can use knowledge to boost the quality of our AI chats, using the updated Recall 2.0 to illustrate how easy knowledge-enhanced AI can be. By the end of this video, you'll understand the power of grounding AI in your own custom knowledge base to both personalize the output and improve its quality. With Recall, you can save information from around the web (YouTube, Podcasts, PDFs, articles, TikTok) AND add your own notes, to form an self-organizing knowledge base. Information is automatically tagged & linked, so you can focus more on learning the information (knowledge) and less on capturing it. Recall 2.0 brings a huge update to the chat feature. Once you have curated your information into knowledge, you can chat with each source individually or your entire knowledge base at once. You can also quiz yourself on your knowledge base using spaced repetition to help you learn the material even better. Recall has quite a lot of features: 1) Global Chat with knowledge base (like NotebookLM) 2) Note-Taking (like Notion) 3) Automated Knowledge Linking (like auto-Obsidian) 4) Export to markdown (you own your data) 5) Full Review functionality (quizzing & spaced repetition like Anki) Recall really does streamline the capture & organization process of dealing with information, helping you reduce information overload so you can focus more on creating & retaining knowledge. Try out Recall for free here: https://www.recall.it/?t=wanderloots If you want to try Recall Plus, use wanderloots25 for a 25% discount. I hope you enjoy this new tool as much as I do! ✨ To learn more about the AI tools I use, check out my AI Learning Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLWhMzDKA7vJ7k0CCHAhCNGXH1BKKEo_we P.S. I greatly appreciate any feedback, please let me know what you think 😊 Join My Membership: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCFiU1vIpPD3lQltke_18m3A/join 💌 Sign up for my [free newsletter: Recalibrating](https://paragraph.xyz/@wanderloots.eth?referrer=wanderloots.eth) 🧠 Join my [Hypersub Exclusive Membership ] (coming soon) 🏡 Wander my Digital Garden https://wanderloots.xyz 📰 Try Ground News For Research: 40% discount https://check.ground.news/wanderloots Timestamps: 00:00 How To Stay Ahead In A World Of AI? 00:50 Today's Video Outline & Goals 01:14 The New Recall 2.0 02:35 Core Recall Workflow 03:13 Knowledge Cards 04:48 Knowledge As A Memory Layer For AI 06:31 Example 1: Simpler Preferences 09:22 Example 2: Flow States Multiple Cards 11:52 Example 2: Hybrid Knowledge & Web Analysis 13:10 Example 3: Cross-Discipline Research Analysis 14:43 A Few More Updates: Tags & MCP/API 15:55 Recap & Next Steps WATCH NEXT 🌱 Obsidian & Digital Gardens https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLWhMzDKA7vJ7p50vW-oeZgKR2aDReZFW6 LINKS (MY WORLD) 🧭 [Recalibrating Newsletter Home](https://paragraph.xyz/@wanderloots.eth?referrer=wanderloots.eth) 🌍 My [Website](https://wanderloots.com/) 📸 My [Print Shop](https://wanderloots.darkroom.com/) ✨ SOCIALS 🟣 [Farcaster](https://warpcast.com/wanderloots.eth) 📸 [Instagram](https://www.instagram.com/_wanderloots/) 📰 [Flipboard](https://flipboard.com/@_wanderloots) 📍 [Pinterest](https://www.pinterest.ca/wanderloots/) 🤖 [Reddit](https://www.reddit.com/user/_wanderloots) MY FAVOURITE TOOLS 😴 🤯 The [Waking Up App](https://dynamic.wakingup.com/guestpass/SC4914439) (use this link for a 30 day free trial) 📝 [Obsidian](https://obsidian.md/) (decentralized note-taking) 📹 [Adobe Suite](https://prf.hn/l/lQ9DwpA) (general creativity) EQUIPMENT USED 6. Camera [Sony A7iii](https://amzn.to/3seSHv6) 7. Lens [Sony F2 28 mm](https://amzn.to/3TiWCT2) 8. Tripod [K&F Concept](https://amzn.to/3soCKCP) 9. Lighting [Ubeesize Ring Light](https://amzn.to/3GD02Zy) 10. Main Lighting Neewer 660 PRO RGB: https://amzn.to/3CEcU2V
Key Insights
- The speaker argues that everyone using the same AI tools leads to identical answers, and the key to standing out is saving what matters to you and writing down your actual thoughts in one place
- The speaker explains that Recall combines the capabilities of NotebookLM, Obsidian, and Notion - offering chat functionality, note-taking with graphs, and source capture without the limitations of each individual tool
- The speaker demonstrates that asking 'what gives me flow states' yields generic web results, but when filtered through his personal knowledge base, it returns his specific examples like vibe coding, astrophotography, and wildlife photography
- The speaker shows how the hybrid search can analyze updated 2026 flow state research against his existing video content to identify research gaps and how academic understanding has shifted
- The speaker emphasizes that by separating the memory layer from the AI tool, users can build the knowledge base they want without getting locked into any particular model as new ones emerge
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Transcript
[0:00] So to me this is just incredibly powerful. You can see how many references there are throughout this answer and all of these answers are coming specifically from the knowledge and the notes that I've curated over time. Everyone uses the same AI tools which means that everyone gets the same answers. LLMs are generic built on the entire internet. So how do you stand out in a world that is standardizing intelligence? It's actually pretty simple. You save what matters to you. You write down what you actually think. If you do this all in one place, you build an AI system that knows what you [0:31] know. Your knowledge, context, and thinking becomes your edge in the…
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