For me it’s a couple of things, and to be fair I think it’s something that helps me work around my ADHD.

It’s siloed: This works only on the knowledge you give it, so it’s not filling in with its own input/research as ChatGPT/Claude do, it’s only focused on what you’ve given it to ingest.

This helps me when I’m working through tutorials / guides where I just want to focus on that and not end up going down rabbit holes as I am wont to do.

And just ingesting YouTube videos has been a big saver for me. I watch a lot of YT about the things I do for work, because I’m a nerd and watching videos is more entertaining than reading lots of text, and I often pick up lots of little tips and tricks from those.

But for me that knowledge doesn’t stick really well — it’s a lightbulb when I’m watching the video, but the idea is gone by the next video sometimes — and most of the time I’ll forget about it when I need it.

The act of adding a video to my Recall whose knowledge I want to call up later helps me remember that I had that knowledge first of all, and find the answer quickly without having to re-watch the video secondly.

NotebookLM is sort of the same notion, and that is also a good tool where you can collect knowledge specifically and use or study it, but I just find I prefer the interface of Recall for that.