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Short memory: how Recall handles Shorts

How Flocci Recall saves and understands Shorts: where they come from, what AI extracts, and the kind of fuzzy query that finds them again.

Direct answer

Recall treats Shorts as a first-class content type with their own accent colour, their own filter chip and their own enrichment path. Shorts are detected from the /shorts/ path before the generic video rule, so a Short is filed as a Short, not a video. Once a short is saved you can find it by describing it — the summary, key takeaways, topics, entities and bilingual keywords are all searchable.

Where Shorts come from

Recall files a save as a short when it arrives from YouTube Shorts (/shorts/ URLs).

What Recall builds around a short

Shorts are detected from the /shorts/ path before the generic video rule, so a Short is filed as a Short, not a video. Same enrichment path as video: metadata, verbatim transcript when transcription is available, then summary, key takeaways and bilingual keywords.

Queries that find Shorts again

These are the shapes of query Recall is built for — vague, human, and about meaning rather than metadata.

The honest bit

A 40-second Short usually carries its whole point in the spoken audio, which is exactly what the transcript makes searchable.

Questions about Shorts in Recall

How does Recall know something is a short?

From the URL and the content itself, before any AI runs. Short detection sits in a deliberately ordered signal list so more specific rules win — and where a fact is available, such as a file extension or the absence of a URL, the fact beats any AI inference.

What does Recall extract from a short?

Shorts are detected from the /shorts/ path before the generic video rule, so a Short is filed as a Short, not a video. Same enrichment path as video: metadata, verbatim transcript when transcription is available, then summary, key takeaways and bilingual keywords.

What can I search for to find a short again?

Describe it. Real queries that work include "the Short about the 5-minute rule", "that finance Short on index funds", "short with the one-pan chicken trick". Recall interprets the description into concepts, ranks your whole library, and narrates what it found in one sentence.

Is anything about Shorts handled differently?

A 40-second Short usually carries its whole point in the spoken audio, which is exactly what the transcript makes searchable.

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