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title: Recall Tutorial
description: First steps to get started with our team's collective brain
author: Yeehaa
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# Get Started with Recall

**Transform scattered knowledge into unified intelligence**

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# Meet Your Team's Collective Brain

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## Recall provides

- Provides instant answers
- Capture links automatically
- Summarizes conversations
- Extracts topics
- Collaborate seamlessly

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## First Steps

**Verify it's working**

1. Go to: [https://matrix.to/#/#recall-room:rizom.ai](https://matrix.to/#/#recall-room:rizom.ai)
2. Send: `Hi @recall, how can you help me today?`
3. Wait for response

✓ Recall is ready!

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## Exercise

**Recall answers from team knowledge**

Try these:

- `@recall`, what projects are we working on?
- Did we decide about a documentation tool `@recall`
- `@recall`, what tools does the team use?

Recall searches everything you've captured

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# Automatic Organization

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## Capture Links

1. Paste any URL in chat
2. Scout extracts content
3. Generates summary
4. Identifies topics

No commands needed!

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## Exercise

1. Share an article URL
2. Visit https://recall.rizom.ai/links
3. Find your links captured

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## Topic Extraction

- Just talk like you normally would
- Common topics are extracted from the conversations
- No manual tagging needed
- Topics are automatically updated over time

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## Summary Generation

- Key points captured
- Digests available

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## Exercise

1. Have a conversation about a project (3-4 messages)
2. Visit [https://recall.rizom.ai/topics](https://recall.rizom.ai/topics)
3. Visit [https://recall.rizom.ai/summaries](https://recall.rizom.ai/summaries)

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## Make Recall effective

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# Daily Habits

**Start building your team's knowledge!**

✓ Share links as they come up
✓ Ask Recall when you need info
✓ Check topics weekly
✓ Visit website regularly

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# Advanced Features

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## Edit content anywhere

**All knowledge stored as Markdown in Git**

- Edit in Obsidian, VS Code, HackMD
- Version control for all changes
- Sync automatically
- Collaborate with Git workflows

Use `!git-sync` to trigger manual sync

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## Connect to AI assistants

**Recall works with MCP clients such as Claude Desktop**

Endpoint: [https://recall.rizom.ai/mcp](https://recall.rizom.ai/mcp)

Ask Claude to search team knowledge

- "What are our main topics?"
- "Search for deployment decisions"
- Full access to your knowledge base

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# How It Works

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## Knowledge Processing

- AI extracts content
- Semantic topic analysis
- Automatic summarization

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## Storage

- Markdown files (human-readable)
- Git repository (version control)
- SQLite database with vector embeddings (fast, semantic search)

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## Privacy & Security

✓ Host data on Github or self-hosted Git
✓ E2E encryption supported
✓ SQLite provides complete data portability
✓ Can run on-premises

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# Quick Reference

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**Essential Commands**

- `!help` - Show all commands
- `!status` - Show Recall's status
- `!identity` - Show the Recall's identity

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**Key URLs**

- Website: [https://recall.rizom.ai](https://recall.rizom.ai)
- API: [https://recall.rizom.ai/mcp](https://recall.rizom.ai/mcp)

- Recall Content: [https://github.com/your-org/your-content](https://github.com/your-org/your-content)
- Brains Code: [https://github.com/rizom-ai/brains](https://github.com/rizom-ai/brains)

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## Start capturing your team's knowledge

Need help: `@yeehaa:rizom.ai`

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# Recall: Powered by Rizom

**Capture every link, every decision, every insight**

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