Granola
A meeting-notes app that finishes your notes instead of replacing them — a small design choice that turns out to matter.
The standard pitch for AI meeting tools is 'we'll transcribe everything for you.' What you get is a wall of verbatim text nobody reads. Granola makes a different bet: you still jot your own shorthand during the call, and the model cleans it into a proper writeup afterwards.
The best AI tools don't replace the human step — they finish it.
The result reads like your notes, because it started as your notes. The AI does the tedious part — structure, phrasing, filling gaps — while you keep the judgment about what mattered. A quietly correct division of labour.
It's a useful template for AI products generally: the best ones often don't replace the human step, they finish it.
It's a small app, but it models the right human-AI split: augment the judgment, automate the drudgery. Easy to overlook, worth stealing the idea from.