Recall and What Changed

Recall keeps the words of the pages you spend time on, on this Mac, so you can find a page by a sentence you remember, and see what changed on it when you come back. It's off until you turn it on.

Turn it on

1. Open Settings › Recall.Choose Tern › Settings, then Recall.
2. Turn on Remember the text of pages I read.From then on, a page that stays in front for 20 seconds has its words kept. A page you only glance at isn't.
3. Choose how long to keep them.Keep for sets 1 month, 3 months, 1 year, or until you forget them.

The words stay on this Mac. They're never synced or sent anywhere, and the agent reads them only when you ask it something.

Find a page by what it said

Press ⌘T and type a few words you remember from the page. Pages Recall kept show with the passage that matched. Open one and Tern scrolls to the passage, with a note saying when you read it.

See what changed

When you come back to a page Recall kept, Tern compares it with the copy from your last visit. If something changed, a note over the page says when you last read it and how much is different, such as 2 new · 1 gone.

1. Click Show Changes.New lines are listed first, then the lines that are gone, crossed out.
2. Go to a change.Click a new line to find it on the page.
3. Ask the agent.Ask what changed, and it answers from the same comparison.

Lines that only moved, or where only a time such as "3 days ago" changed, don't count. A page where most of it changed, such as a news front page, doesn't show a note, and nor does a page you read in the last hour. To stop the notes, turn off Show what changed in Settings › Recall.

What it never keeps

• Private windows. Nothing they show is written to this Mac.
• Banks, health and mail. Never kept, whatever else is set.
• Sites you add. Add a site under Never remember, and what was kept from it is forgotten too.
• Spaces you turn it off in. Under In each Space, turn Recall off for a Space.

Forget what it kept

Settings › Recall can forget a day or a site, or everything with Forget All…. Your history stays. Clearing your history clears the same pages from Recall too.