Rate Limits & Quotas
Understand your plan limits and daily quotas
New notes you can create daily
Times you can receive old notes
Maximum notes stored
Daily markdown exports
Rate Limit Details
- • Daily limits reset every 24 hours from your first action
- • Anti-spam protection: Max 3 captures per minute (prevents accidental spam)
- • Export cooldown: Prevents server overload while keeping your data accessible
- • Search rate limits: Reasonable limits to ensure fast searches for everyone
Advanced Search
Find notes quickly across your entire collection
How Search Works
Search is available on the All Notes page. It performs a full-text search across all your notes, including surface tags.
- Case-insensitive: "Goal" matches "goal", "GOAL", and "Goal"
- Partial matching: "plan" matches "planning", "airplane", "planet"
- Fast results: Get all matching notes when you search
- Comprehensive: Searches all notes, not just the current page
Search Tips
Use specific keywords
Instead of "book", try "book recommendations" or "reading list"
Search by surface date
Search "Surface March" to find all notes scheduled for March
Find tagged notes
Search "#goals" or "#project" if you use hashtags in your notes
Search by time period
Include year/month in search like "2024" or "January" to filter by time
Export Your Notes
Take your data anywhere with Markdown export
Export Features
- Markdown format: Compatible with Obsidian, Notion, and other note apps
- Complete export: All notes, timestamps, and surface tags included
- Chronological order: Notes sorted from newest to oldest
- No vendor lock-in: Your data is always portable
How to Export
Export Limits
Free users can export once per day. Recall+ users have unlimited exports. This helps us manage server costs while keeping your data accessible.
Power User Workflows
Creative ways to maximize NoteReturn
Use surface tags to create future journal prompts
- Write today's entry without tags
- Add reflection prompts with [Surface] tags 30-90 days out
- When they resurface, reflect on your growth
- Create weekly review prompts every Sunday
Remember concepts using scientifically-proven intervals
- Write learning notes with key concepts
- Tag for review: 1 day, 3 days, 7 days, 30 days
- When resurfaced, quiz yourself on the content
- Perfect for languages, facts, formulas
Set checkpoints and hold yourself accountable
- Write your goals with specific metrics
- Surface monthly to review progress
- Add quarterly reflection prompts
- Celebrate wins when past goals resurface
Keep project ideas and milestones top of mind
- Capture project ideas as they come
- Surface project reviews at milestone dates
- Add 'how did this go?' notes for after completion
- Track lessons learned across projects
Let serendipity spark new story ideas
- Capture story ideas, characters, scenes
- Let random recalls inspire new connections
- Surface character development prompts
- Review old ideas with fresh perspective
Build a personal knowledge base
- Save quotes, insights, book notes
- Tag concepts for spaced review
- Let old insights resurface in new contexts
- Export to create a personal wiki
Choose Your Plan
Find the right fit for your needs
$0/month
Tips & Tricks
Level up your note-taking game
Use hashtags for organization
Add #tags to notes (like #goals, #ideas, #work) to easily search and filter later.
Morning page ritual
Start each day by creating a note and receiving a recalled thought to inspire your day.
Batch surface tags
When planning, create multiple surface-tagged notes for the same date to get a themed recall day.
Review before export
Export quarterly to review your thought patterns and see how you've evolved.
Embrace serendipity
Don't overthink it - random recalls often spark the most interesting connections.
Keep notes atomic
One idea per note works better than long journal entries for maximum serendipity.
Surface important dates
Birthdays, anniversaries, and deadlines make great surface tag reminders.
Experiment with intervals
Try different surface intervals (7 days, 30 days, 90 days) to find what works for you.
Frequently Asked Questions
Quick answers to common questions