Recall

Recall is how you ask your book a question and get a real answer back — built from what you actually saw and recorded, not from the open web. Two surfaces work together: the Index for jumping straight to a page, and Ask the Book for questions that span many days at once.

The Index: jump anywhere

Press ⌘K from anywhere to open the Index. It is both a table of contents and a search box for the whole book.

Start typing and it filters across everything in one place:

• The Days — any page in your Day Journal, by title, summary, or date.
• Minutes — a recorded meeting, by title.
• Commonplace Book — beliefs you've kept.
• Lexicon — corrective words and snippets.
• Colophon — any setting, landing on its own row.
• Commands — actions you can run, like Turn to today or Begin minutes.

Open with an empty query and the Index shows a table of contents instead: the Parts of your book, your three most recent days, your three most recent minutes, and the common commands.

Move the selection with the up and down arrows, press Return to go, and Esc to dismiss — focus returns to the page you were on. The Index is fast because it reads from what's already in memory; there's no waiting.

Ask the Book: a question across every day

When you want an answer rather than a destination, ask the book. Open today's page and use the Ask the book… bar, or press ⇧⌘A from anywhere to jump there and start typing.

The full Ask the Book view searches anything you saw, across every day. Type a question — "what was the address jane.smith sent me?", "which build broke last Thursday?" — and the book answers from your own captured history.

How the answer is built

If you've connected an AI provider, the answer streams back as prose, written only from the days and frames that match your question. Under the answer is a Sources list. Each source is the exact frame the answer drew from, shown as its time, the app, and the window title — for example:

[#1]  JUN 11 · 14:32 · Mail · Inbox — jane.smith@example.com

Click any source to open that frame: the original screen, at the moment it was captured, so you can verify the answer with your own eyes. Every [#N] in the answer maps to a row in the list.

If you haven't connected a provider, Recall still works. Instead of prose, it returns cards — each one a specific match (a phone number, an email, a link, a file you saw) carrying the same time-and-place stamp, and a click opens the frame it came from. Recording and search never need a provider; the answer style just changes.

Quick filters

The Ask the Book view offers one-tap chips for the things people look for most:

• Phone numbers
• Emails
• Links
• Files

Tap one to seed the search and see every matching moment.

What you keep coming back to

Before you've typed anything, Recall shows You keep coming back to — the people, sites, and files that recur across your days, each with how many days it spans and how many times you've seen it. Tap one to turn it into a search.

Asking about a single meeting

Inside a recorded meeting you can ask about that meeting on its own. Open the meeting and use the Ask about this meeting… field to question its transcript and your notes directly, without searching the rest of the book.

A note on where this runs

Recall reads your own on-device book. Search and the deterministic card results stay entirely on your Mac. The streamed prose answer uses whatever AI provider you've connected in the Colophon — and a local provider keeps everything on your Mac for that too.