Linko vs Recall: Your Own Notes, or AI Summaries of What You Save

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Recall and Linko both promise that what you save will not disappear into a pile. They get there from different starting points.

The short answer: Recall starts from the content you save and what AI makes of it: summaries, tags, a knowledge graph and quizzes. Linko starts from the notes you write about what you read and watch, and brings those notes back. If you mostly save and rarely write, look at Recall first. If your own lines are what you want to keep, look at Linko.

What Recall does well

• Summaries of what you save: YouTube videos, podcasts, articles and PDFs, which you can read or listen to (Recall).
• On paid plans, saved items are tagged automatically and connected in a knowledge graph you can browse; on the free plan you link notes yourself.
• On paid plans, chat across your library or with one item, with answers that cite the saved items they used and timestamps for videos and podcasts (Recall chat docs).
• Quizzes on a personalized spaced-repetition schedule, on paid plans.
• Browser extensions for Chrome, Edge, Firefox and Safari, a web app and apps for iOS and Android, and Markdown export at any time (Recall).
• A free plan with 10 AI summaries a month, and paid plans from $10 a month, billed yearly (Recall pricing).

What Linko does differently

• Your notes are the center. Linko is a notes app first: a resource is where your notes about it live, and the AI reads both.
• Daily review brings back your own lines. Each day, one set of your notes comes back as questions; you try to recall, then see what you wrote. See Daily review.
• Related notes appear as you write, so a new note meets what you thought before about the same idea.
• Ask Linko answers from your notes and resources and lists what it used. See Ask Linko.
• With Linko for AI tools, ChatGPT, Claude and other AI tools can search your notes and save new ones.

Where each one stops

• Recall: the summaries are the AI's words. You can write your own notes, but the product is organized around saved content.
• Linko: it is built for people who write. If you save a lot and rarely add a line, much of it sits idle. It has no audio summaries, and the browser extension does not run in Firefox or Safari yet.

Who should pick which

• You save a lot, write little, and want to know what each thing said → Recall
• You want a graph of how your saved content connects, and quizzes on it → Recall
• You write a line about what you read and watch, and want those lines back → Linko
• You want your own notes to answer your questions, in Linko or in ChatGPT and Claude → Linko

Linko: free for your first notes and resources, and Pro when you want more. See pricing.

FAQ

Is Linko a Recall alternative?

Yes, if what you want to keep is your own thinking. If you want AI summaries of everything you save, Recall is built for that.

Do both have spaced repetition?

Recall quizzes you on saved content on a spaced-repetition schedule on its paid plans. Linko's Daily review brings back your own notes as questions each day.

Can I use both?

Yes. Some people summarize in one tool and keep their own conclusions in Linko.

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