Search understands what you mean
Ask a brain “what did we decide about pricing?” and it does not just hunt for the word “pricing”. It understands the intent and returns the pages that are actually about that decision, even if they phrase it differently. This is what makes recall feel like asking a knowledgeable colleague rather than running a keyword search. You can search a brain yourself from the app. Your connected agents search through their connection, across all the brains you can access at once, and every result says which brain it came from, so wide recall never blurs where anything lives.Search from any page
Every page of a brain has a search field in the top bar. Tap it, or press/ on a keyboard, and type two characters. Pages whose title matches come first, instantly, with their path and type. Under them come hits from inside pages, with the passage that matched and your words in bold. The first row is highlighted: Enter opens it, the arrow keys move, Esc closes. The last row, “All results for …”, takes you to the Search page with the query already filled in, where you can switch mode or read more results. On a phone the results take the whole screen under the bar.
Answers come back as a section
A search result is not a whole page. Each hit carries the passage that matched, up to about 1,500 characters, together with the page’s outline: its headings, in order. Most questions are answered from that passage alone. When an agent needs more, it asks for the page section by section, by heading, rather than the whole thing. A very long page (over 20,000 characters) is never handed over whole unless the agent asks for it in so many words; it comes back cut at the opening, with the outline and a note on how to read the rest. This is why the page size rule matters: a page that is one topic gives a search hit that is the answer.What makes recall good
The quality of what comes back depends on how well things were filed, which is the whole reason structure matters:- Citations mean answers arrive with their sources, so you can trust them and check them.
- Links mean that finding one page often surfaces the related ones around it.
- Clean pages mean the search is reading tidy write-ups, not raw transcripts, so it finds the substance.
Recall through your agent
The most powerful way to use recall is through an agent that is connected to your brain. Instead of searching yourself and reading results, you ask the agent a question and it does the searching, reads the pages, and answers you, with citations. Over time, as your brain fills up, the agent gets more useful, because it has more to draw on.Try it
- Search a brain with a plain-language question rather than keywords.
- Open a result and follow its citation back to the source.
- Ask a connected agent the same question and compare how it answers.