Meet Granola AI ✨

Meet Granola AI ✨

From Wonder Tools by Jeremy Caplan

April 4, 2026 · 14 min

About this episode

Jeremy Caplan discusses the benefits and features of Granola AI, an AI note-taking tool he uses daily.

I’ve tried a dozen AI note-taking tools. Granola is the one I use daily and recommend most. Read on for 10 ways to make the most of it. Bottom line: Granola transcribes and summarizes nearly every meeting I have. 998 so far. It helps me keep track of what I’ve learned and promises I’ve made. What it does: It’s software you download, not a bot, so it doesn’t attend meetings. It just runs on my computer or phone. I can use it to record in-person meetings, or anything online: Zoom, Google Meet, or even Substack Live. Setting it up: I connected my Google Calendar. Now it auto-detects my meetings and opens automatically when I start a call. How it’s different: Unlike other bots that spit out a generic summary, Granola gives you a window for your own note-taking. That means I can include my own thoughts and highlight what I find most important. The summary then weaves in my own points in black, distinct from the gray AI summary notes. I can always return to either my own separate notes or the AI-assisted summary. I can now query any meeting I’ve been in since I started using Granola in September 2024. I look for patterns across meetings and presentations I’ve given over the past couple…

People in this episode

Host: Jeremy Caplan

Topics covered

  • AI note-taking
  • productivity tools
  • meeting summaries
  • technology
  • education

Keywords

  • Granola AI
  • note-taking
  • meeting summaries
  • AI tools
  • productivity

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Google, Zoom, Google Meet, Substack

Products: Granola AI

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