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I built a second brain in 10 minutes with Granola + Claude ($38/month)

Ruben Dominguez (The AI Corner) · the-ai-corner.com

Step-by-step practitioner build connecting Granola to Claude via MCP, with ready-to-copy prompts for turning meeting notes into follow-ups and decisions.

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The question it answers

  1. Why let AI handle meeting notes, action items, and follow-ups (Granola, Fathom, Fireflies)?

Read with it

  1. Reported deep-dive on why founders became Granola's core users, with real examples like piping 25+ customer-interview notes... upstartsmedia.com Article Can Granola's AI meeting notes eat bigger apps for breakfast? Alex Konrad (Upstarts Media, ex-Forbes)
  2. First-person walkthrough of a full pre-meeting / during / follow-up workflow that treats transcripts as raw input for Claude,... techysurgeon.substack.com Article I Built a Meeting OS with Claude and Granola. Here's How. Christian Pean, MD (Techy Surgeon)
  3. Honest hands-on review with an embedded 'watch me try it' video, showing three real workflows: partner calls, interviews, and... feisworld.com Video I Spent 10 Years Taking Bad Notes. This AI Changed Everything (Granola review + video) Fei Wu (Feisworld Media)
  4. A working VC compares the notetakers founders actually meet across the table, including etiquette on bots in fundraising calls. valueaddvc.com Article Top 6 AI Notetaking Tools for Investor Meetings: Granola, Otter, Fireflies and More Ranked Trace Cohen (GP, Six Point Ventures)
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