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title: "Use cases | Total Recall"
description: "Real workflows with measured token savings across engineering, research, writing, and operations. See exactly what your agent reads with and without Total Recall."
canonical: "https://total-recall.dev/use-cases"
last-updated: "2026-09-12"
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# Use cases: real work, minus the re-explaining.

Total Recall remembers the thinking and the decisions behind your work, across every kind of work, not just code. Each example below comes with measured token savings.

## Engineering

Catch up on a codebase after days away. Recover why a past architectural decision was made. Your agent surfaces the relevant past sessions, decisions, and files before you think to ask.

## Research & analysis

Pull everything you know on a topic into one brief. Total Recall recalls the sources, findings, and open questions from earlier sessions.

## Writing & content

Keep voice, structure, and prior drafts consistent across sessions without re-pasting context.

## Operations

Draft an update from what actually shipped. Recover client context, decisions, and commitments across projects.

Stop re-explaining your project to your AI every morning. See [benchmarks](https://total-recall.dev/benchmarks) for the retrieval numbers behind these workflows.