You forgot 70% of yesterday's meeting.

And the AI solution that is NOT a bot:

You left the meeting confident.

You know what’s decided. You know who owns what. You know the next steps.

Then 24 hours pass.

And you just forgot 70% of the entire meeting.

70% of the meeting → Gone.

This is known as the Ebbinghaus effect.

And here’s the part that should scare you: your brain doesn’t just forget. It fills the gaps. It invents. It reconstructs the meeting from fragments, assumptions, and whatever you expected to hear.

The meeting you remember is not the meeting that happened.

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It gets worse in groups.

Research shows teams who have meetings together create shared false memories.

You all leave the room remembering the CEO said something she never said. You implement a directive that doesn’t exist. Six months later, no one questions it because everyone “remembers” it clearly.

I’ve seen this happen. A client team spent three weeks building a feature their VP “asked for” in a meeting. She didn’t. The transcript proved it. But four people in the room would have sworn on their careers that she did.

Your memory is (always) a fan fiction you wrote after the meeting.

So you tried to fix it in the past.

Taking notes. You split your attention. You’re writing while missing the next sentence. You captured words but you’re not present to participate. People start saying “it could have been an email”. And the notes? You’ll never look at them again.

Recording. 47 minutes of audio you’ll never replay. It sits in a folder. We both know you won’t open it.

AI notetakers. A bot joins the call. People talk differently. The summary is generic. Three paragraphs of nothing-summaries. Stuff like: “The team discussed Q1 priorities and agreed to follow up on action items.”

So you Slacked your colleague: “Hey, what did we actually decide?”

There is another way. And me & my team are genuiely obsessed.

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There is no other notetaker.

I hate AI notetaker.

You know this thing that connects to your call:

We should shame these people.

This is a nightmare straight out of a BlackMirror episode.

So I thought notetaking wasn’t solved (yet) and I went back to writing poor notes.

I then found Granola. And Granola was what I was looking for.

Why Granola is just cooler.

Three things:

1 - No bot joins. Granola runs locally. It captures audio from your device. People don’t see a gray circle named “AI Notetaker” joining the call. They talk normally. You get the real conversation.

2 - Your data stays yours. No audio stored. Just transcripts. And you control what happens to them. I don’t type a single word during a call. I’m fully focused.

3 - Custom prompts. I built custom prompts to do what I love most (TLDR summary, action items that concerns me & me only, and a Linkedin post maker).

I know you well, and you want to copy my custom prompts.

Besides the fact that Granola is invisible, it’s the #1 reason I love this tool over any other AI notetaker.

So first, how can you access custom prompts (called “Recipes”):

Granola has a built-in AI chat. You type “/” and run a prompt directly on your transcript. No copy-pasting into Claude or ChatGPT.

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Prompt 1: TLDR so-short-you-have-to-read it.

Default AI summaries are three paragraphs of nothing.

I need two bullets I’ll actually look at.

Here’s a demo (and the prompt is right after the video):

Link for direct access → https://recipes.granola.ai/r/540bee25-5a9b-426a-9543-bdcb03589760. But if you want to recreate it, here’s the exact prompt I use:

You are summarizing a meeting for someone who is extremely busy and will only read something if it’s shockingly short. Your job is to distill the meeting provided into a single TLDR that is so brief, skipping it would feel ridiculous.

RULES:

• Maximum 2 bullet points total

• Each bullet must be under 12 words

• No fluff, greetings, or preamble

• No “In summary...” or “Key takeaways include...” — just the points

• Only include what actually matters: decisions made, actions required, or critical information

• If nothing important happened, say “Nothing worth your time.”

FORMAT:

• [Most important thing, the 80%]

• [Second most important thing, the 20%]

That’s it. Nothing else.

What you get back:

• John owns the pricing proposal by Friday.

• We’re not launching in Q1 anymore.

That’s it. The meeting in ten seconds.

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Quick How-To for Granola Recipe.

How to create your own Granola Recipe:

1. Go to your Granola account.

2. Go to the bottom left “Recipe”.

3. Click on “Create a Recipe on the top right”.

And then it’s quite simple.

1. Type your name at the top (you will access it with / ).

2. The prompt part is the most important one. Copy mine or do yours.

3. Select the model. My favorite is claude-opus-4-5.

4. Make it for single meetings or multi-meetings.

PS: If you struggle to make your own Recipe, leave a comment.

I’ll help you prompt it.

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Prompt 2: Action items, nothing more.

Default action items are vague. “Follow up on discussion.”

Follow up on what? With who? By when?

I made a Recipe for that. My action items, nothing more.

The link for direct access → https://recipes.granola.ai/r/acafc857-1406-4199-80ec-ae497bb05d5d. Or here’s the exact prompt of my Recipe:

You are reviewing a meeting to extract action items assigned to a specific person. Your job: Find and list of the action items assigned to the people the user will mention. It could be multiple people.

Rules:

- Output action items as bullet points only

- No introduction, greeting, summary, or closing remarks

- No headers or section titles

- If an action item has a deadline mentioned, include it in parentheses at the end

Example of an output format:

[name]

- Send the updated contract to legal (by Thursday)

- Book the venue for the offsite

- Review David’s proposal and share feedback

- Circle back with the client about pricing

Now I know exactly what I owe. Just what was actually said.

Here’s a quick demo:

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Prompt 3: From Pain Point → to Linkedin post.

It analyzes people’s pain point and turn it into a brief.

I then go from the brief → to a Linkedin post.

Here’s the link to access it → https://recipes.granola.ai/r/b8832f11-1c95-43fa-9fec-3f6e756dc059. If you just want the prompt to modify it, here it is:

A meeting just finished where a customer or prospect shared a frustration or pain point. Your job is to turn that pain point into a clear designer brief for a LinkedIn post.

Rules:

- Identify the core frustration expressed in the meeting

- Write the brief so a designer can create a visual post without needing more context

- Keep the tone relatable and human, not corporate

- The post should make the target audience feel seen, not sold to

- No hashtags or emojis in the brief

- Do not include anything the customer did not explicitly say or imply

Brief structure:

Pain point: [One sentence describing the frustration in the customer’s own words or closely paraphrased]

Target audience: [Who feels this pain]

Emotion to evoke: [What the reader should feel when they see the post—e.g., “finally, someone gets it”]

Suggested headline: [A short, punchy line for the visual—under 10 words]

Supporting text: [2-3 sentences expanding on the frustration, written as if speaking directly to the audience, verbatim of the meeting only]

Visual direction: [A simple suggestion for the designer—e.g., “split screen showing expectation vs reality” or “single bold quote on dark background”]

If no clear pain point was discussed in the meeting, output only: “No pain point identified in this meeting.”

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The “I never forget meeting” worklow.

1. Meeting starts.

2. Granola takes notes on the background.

3. Meeting ends.

4. Open Granola.

5. Type “/” → run the TLDR prompt → 2 bullets essence.

6. Type “/” → run the action items prompt → copy to Slack or Notion.

7. Done.

Two minutes. Every meeting.

No more “wait, what did we decide?”

You finally remember more than 30% after a day.

And you can still hate on AI notetakers bots. Shame them, really.

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