Your Granola notes, already written
Granola takes notes while you talk, which means by the time a call ends you have the thing most people never get round to writing down. What you usually do next is nothing. The notes sit there, the week moves on, and the argument you made on Tuesday is gone.
Connecting Granola to Inklined means those notes become the material. Not summarised back at you, and not turned into a post automatically. They become what Inklined asks you about tomorrow morning, with the passage it is asking about shown next to the question.
Notes are not the hard part. which of them are worth anything, and the three reasons most archives produce nothing is the argument underneath this page.
Connecting it
- 1In Granola, open Settings and find the API section.
- 2Create a personal key with the Personal notes scope. This matters more than it sounds: a key created with Public notes alone will connect successfully and then see nothing of yours.
- 3In Inklined, go to Integrations, choose Granola, and paste the key.
- 4The first sync runs immediately. After that it runs every 4 hours.
What Inklined takes
- →The note body and the transcript, for any note that has both.
- →The title, which is used to work out what the call was about.
- →Participants, as roles rather than names. See what happens to it below.
What happens to it
The first thing that happens to a transcript is that the names come out of it. People become role descriptors, so a participant is stored as “Host [GTM Consultant]” rather than by name. Companies become sector descriptors, so a client called Acme Corp is stored as “a B2B SaaS startup”. Email addresses, phone numbers, office addresses and profile links are removed. This runs once, on the way in, before anything else touches the text.
What is left is split into passages and indexed, so that when Inklined asks you something tomorrow it can show you the 40 seconds of the call the question came from rather than asserting that you said it.
Then a second rule applies, and it is the one that matters most if your calls are client work. Only speech attributed to you can become something you publish. On a typical consulting corpus most of the words belong to the other person, and offering those back to you as “something you said” is how somebody ends up publishing a client’s thinking under their own name. Anything that still names an organisation after all that asks you to confirm before it will draft from it.
One limitation worth stating rather than hiding: a client name that opens a sentence is not always caught, because “Sona ran this play” is shaped exactly like “Pricing pages need an owner”. The title check is the reliable one, and the confirmation step exists because no automatic check is enough on its own.
More on this: how Inklined works.
When it does not work
A connection that authenticates and then returns nothing looks exactly like a healthy one, which is why Granola going quiet is hard to diagnose from the outside.
- It connected, but no notes have arrived.
- Nearly always the key scope. A personal Granola key only sees the scopes it was created with, and one granted Public notes alone never sees your own notes. Create a new key with the Personal notes scope and reconnect.
- Some notes arrive and others do not.
- Granola leaves out notes that do not yet have both an AI summary and a transcript. A note you took by hand in a meeting Granola did not record will not come through.
- A note arrived but nothing came of it.
- Only your own speech becomes something you can publish. On a call where you mostly listened, there may be very little that belongs to you, and Inklined will not offer you somebody else’s thinking under your name.
Questions
Sync runs every 4 hours. Setup steps checked against the product on 24 September 2026. Using something else? See what Inklined connects to.
The calls are already happening.
Start with the strategy session. No card needed for that part.