The Essential Guide to Get Recall AI – Summarize PDF, YouTube Videos, Blogs and more

What is Get Recall AI?

Get Recall AI is a handy tool that helps you summarize and save online content such as YouTube videos, articles, and podcasts. It automatically organizes and links this content with related information you’ve saved before, making it easier to rediscover and quickly understand complex topics. You can also use it to reinforce learning by creating quizzes based on your summarized content. This tool is a game changer for learners as it is helpful for managing information and increasing productivity.

Recall implements Active Recall and Spaced Repetition techniques in its tool. Active recall involves remembering information without referencing any material. For example, if I ask you the chemical formula of glucose, and you tell me it’s C6H12O6, then you were successful at your attempt at active recall. Spaced Repetition is a technique to learn new information at increasing intervals to help solidify that information in your memory. Get Recall AI provides an option to review summarized content with quiz questions immediately (Active Recall) or later at intervals of 7 days, 30 days, and 6 months (Spaced Repetition).

How do I get started using Get Recall AI?

Currently you can start using Get Recall AI in the following ways:

Key Features of Get Recall AI

Summarizing Tool for Various Online Content

You can use Get Recall AI to summarize various online content as mentioned below. This will help you save time and store information efficiently. The summary generated is saved as knowledge cards. You can find some of the summarized content on Get Recall AI‘s website:

Summarize YouTube Videos

Extract key points from video content such as an educational video or DIY tutorial.

Summarize PDFs

Get concise summaries of lengthy reports or long documents

Summarize News Articles

Get quick snapshot of an event or finding from new article

Summarize Podcasts

Capture key discussion or insights from audio content

Summarize Blog Posts

Get main points from blog posts

Summarize Wikipedia

Get a concise summary from a Wikipedia page

Use Tags to Organize Knowledge Card

Graph View

This tool is useful for creating a dynamic graph that identifies connections within a knowledge card and with other knowledge cards. As you summarize more content, the graph becomes more complex and resembles neurons. Below is a graph generated after summarizing the UN Sustainable Development Goals Progress Report (2024). I will cover how to generate a summary of a PDF in a case study later in the blog.

Learn Saved content with Active Recall and Spaced Repetition

Once you add a YouTube Video, PDF content, blog post or other online content as your in-app knowledge card, you can create quiz questions in the review section. After immediate review of the summarized content, you can take the quiz (Active Recall) or take the quiz later at an interval of 7 days, 30 days or 6 months (Spaced Repetition).

Case Study

Case Study #1: Summarize YouTube Video

Creating summary of a YouTube video is pretty straightforward if you have the browser extension of Get Recall AI. Simply open the YouTube video that you want to be summarized and click on the pinned Browser Extension icon. The extension will summarize the content for you and you have the option to save it.

In the example below we are summarizing the 9 Awesome AI Tools No One is Talking About from Futurepedia YouTube Channel. Based on the summary we know that the video is going to cover SkyGlass, ElevenLabs, BGBye, Gen Type, GeoSpy, SoBrief, Aspect, Friend, Fal and Websim. We also get a summary of each of these tools.

Case Study #2: Summarize PDFs

On various occasions, you might have encountered long pdfs and business report, and wished if you were able to get essential information easily. You can now feasibly summarize pdf file with Get Recall AI. Simply open the link of the pdf file in your browser and click on the browser extension icon for Get Recall AI. You will receive the summary of entire pdf.

In the example below we are summarizing the Sustainable Development Goals Progress Report (2024). It is a 24 page document and took around 3 minutes for the tool to provide a summary.

Frequently Asked Questions

Is Get Recall AI Free to use?

You can generate 10 free AI summaries with get recall AI. You also get unlimited in-app knowledge card for free as well. To get unlimited AI summarizes, you can upgrade to recall plus for $10/month (billed monthly) or $7/month (billed annually).

Can you download your summarized content?

You can either copy the knowledge card to your clipboard using the browser extension or download a knowledge card as a Markdown Source File. It is also possible to download the whole knowledge base (Main Menu > Settings > Export). This will export the whole knowledge base as a Zip Folder with files of Markdown Source File extension.

Summary Table: Get Recall AI in a Nutshell

• Summarize YouTube Video, PDFs, News Articles, Podcasts, Blog Posts, and Wikipedia pages into knowledge cards
• Add tags to efficiently organize your knowledge cards.
• See the graph generated to find connections
• Generate review questions to test your knowledge
• Download summarized notes if you wish

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