The AI Notepad for Back-to-Back Meetings

Granola is the AI notepad that took over founder and investor laptops: it listens to your meeting without sending a bot into the call, transcribes locally, and then fuses your own shorthand with the transcript into a clean summary you'd never have written by hand. Over time those notes become a searchable memory across every conversation — calendar-aware, fast, and unobtrusive.

In the Dojo, the interest is usually one step past the product itself: open-source Granola-style workflows — replicating the "capture the meeting, synthesize it, file it into my own system" loop without a closed SaaS holding the data. That's exactly what Tobyrush demos for June 24 (an open-source Granola wired into Obsidian) and what Abhinayakonduru came asking about. Granola is the benchmark the open-source crowd is chasing — listed here as the reference point and the thing to clone.