Granola

Granola is an AI meeting notes application that helps professionals capture, organize, and retrieve information from conversations without requiring an AI bot to join meetings. It combines the notes users write with meeting audio captured from the user’s device to create structured summaries, key points, decisions, and follow-up actions.

1. Meeting note workflow: Granola connects with calendars to understand upcoming meetings, capture relevant conversation context, and transform personal notes into structured meeting outputs after discussions are complete. Unlike traditional meeting assistants, it is designed around enhancing human note-taking rather than replacing it with an automated attendee.
2. AI knowledge retrieval: users can search and interact with their meeting history through Granola Chat, asking questions about previous conversations, finding decisions, rewriting notes, and extracting information from accumulated meeting knowledge.
3. Bot-free meeting capture: Granola does not join meetings as a visible participant. Instead, it runs locally alongside conversations, allowing users to control their notes and avoid the meeting-bot experience used by many AI transcription tools.
4. Personal meeting workspace: the platform supports online and in-person conversations, combining transcripts, user-written notes, and AI-generated summaries into a searchable workspace for reviewing discussions and tracking follow-ups.

Granola is best suited for professionals who want AI-assisted meeting documentation while keeping human note-taking central, particularly users who prefer a personal meeting memory system rather than automated meeting recordings delivered by a bot.