Building Snapshots: from several Friday demos to a shipped feature
How a screenshot button kept coming back to Friday demos, and how work on speaker labels finally helped us ship it.
Announcements
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More languages are here!
Granola now supports 32 languages
Granola for Apple Watch
Today, we're launching a new version of Granola, built from the ground up for Apple Watch. It's built for meetings away from your laptop.
Granola for Android is here!
Now Android users can take notes anywhere. Leave the laptop behind and take notes with your phone instead.
Engineering
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--dangerously-skip-permissions is the only safe mode
The permission prompts in AI coding agents make you less safe. The only system that works is called auth, and --dangerously-skip-permissions forces you to use it.
How Granola thinks about designing agents
Why we chose breadth over transcript-level fidelity for Agentic Chat, and how we think about useful, honest outputs when the agent has to work for everyone.
So, you think it's easy to change an app icon?
macOS icon styles We wanted to let users customize our app's icon. Sounds straightforward, right? In this post, I'll explain how macOS renders icons, why changing them at runtime is trickier than you'd expect, and how the Calendar app shows the current date in its Dock icon. Befo
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Building Snapshots: from several Friday demos to a shipped feature
How a screenshot button kept coming back to Friday demos, and how work on speaker labels finally helped us ship it.
How sales teams use Granola
How Granola's sales team uses Briefs, Follow-ups, Chat, Recipes and MCP to spend less time on admin and learn from every deal.
How to get the best from Granola
A quick primer on using Granola before, during and after your meetings — and turning all those conversations into something genuinely useful.
Granola for Apple Watch
Today, we're launching a new version of Granola, built from the ground up for Apple Watch. It's built for meetings away from your laptop.
Granola for Android is here!
Now Android users can take notes anywhere. Leave the laptop behind and take notes with your phone instead.
Why Granola doesn't use a bot
Running locally gives a better experience, but it also means thinking differently about transparency. Here's how we help people let others know when Granola is transcribing.
New: Briefs prepare you for your next meeting as you join
Open a meeting note and get a short brief: who you're meeting, what you discussed last time, and what matters now. Briefs are live on Mac and Windows.
--dangerously-skip-permissions is the only safe mode
The permission prompts in AI coding agents make you less safe. The only system that works is called auth, and --dangerously-skip-permissions forces you to use it.
How Granola thinks about designing agents
Why we chose breadth over transcript-level fidelity for Agentic Chat, and how we think about useful, honest outputs when the agent has to work for everyone.
How I shipped Granola’s San Francisco office in one 14-day trip
How Granola turned an empty San Francisco office into a working, homely extension of the London space in two weeks.
Granola Chat just got smarter
Granola Chat is rebuilt to be agentic: faster across your notes, Team Space, and what's shared with you, with inline citations and new Recipes.
Granola raises $125M to put your company's context to work
We're putting your company's context to work: Spaces with team Chat, personal and enterprise APIs, MCP updates, and more Enterprise visibility and controls.
So, you think it's easy to change an app icon?
macOS icon styles We wanted to let users customize our app's icon. Sounds straightforward, right? In this post, I'll explain how macOS renders icons, why changing them at runtime is trickier than you'd expect, and how the Calendar app shows the current date in its Dock icon. Befo
Introducing Granola MCP
Granola MCP connects your meeting notes to Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, and other AI tools via Model Context Protocol. Your meeting context, wherever you work.
Meet the new look Granola
New logo, new typefaces, new visual system. The brand finally catching up to what Granola already is.
How we wrote the prompts behind Granola's Crunched 2025
The challenge of building Granola Crunched was as much tonal as it was technical. Here's how we engineered prompts that felt recognizable, observational, funny, and shareable—while avoiding anything creepy, personal, or emotionally speculative.
Introducing Recipes, in the all-new Granola Chat
Recipes are saved prompts written by experts that work with your meeting notes, combining the power of great AI prompts with the nuance of your work conversations.
When back becomes broken: how we found a tiny navigation bug
Bugs are everywhere. We were reminded of this recently with something very unexpected: the back button. Here’s what happened. First, a little background. With Granola's Mac app, you can access notes from a few different places. You can move between notes from within the app, from
Granola 2.0: A second brain for your team
Introducing the next chapter for Granola: bringing all your team's conversations into one place, and unlocking them with AI
Start with a dot-plot
When we build something new at Granola, we first create a dot-plot. This data table mostly replaces analytics like funnels and DAUs. Our dot-plot looks like: It shows users, sorted by sign-up, with how many meetings they had each day. You stand and stare at it on the Giant TV, un
Don't animate height!
Our app was mysteriously using 60% CPU and 25% GPU on my M2 MacBook. It turned out this was due to a tiny CSS animation! In this post, I show how to find expensive animations, why some are so expensive, and how to make many animations much cheaper. Along the way, we'll learn how
Granola raises $20M to build the AI notepad that makes you smarter
Introducing Granola, an AI-powered notepad for meetings that transcribes, structures, and fleshes out your notes, allowing you to focus on the meeting itself.
How to evolve a product
So you started your startup — now how do you find a great product ASAP? At Granola, we rapidly evolved a product using principles from natural selection! We made our software friendly to mutation by using repetitive code, all in one blob, with no tests. For parallel selection of
Introducing Granola: the AI-powered notepad for meetings
Introducing Granola, an AI-powered notepad for meetings that transcribes, structures, and fleshes out your notes, allowing you to focus on the meeting itself.