Our entire team switched to Granola

Our whole team switched to Granola. Here's what happened.

Last week, we told you about Granola, the AI notepad that works differently from every other meeting tool out there.

Over the last few months, our entire team switched to it. Not because anyone mandated it. Everyone who started using it genuinely enjoyed it, and the rest of us wanted in.

Here's what we've learned.

How different teams at The Deep View use it

The thing that surprised us: Granola fits completely different workflows across the company.

Partnerships: Tracking timelines, objectives, and next steps from sponsor conversations. Every external call gets documented without scrambling to remember what was discussed.

Editorial: Our writers and editors use it for interviews and research conversations. When you're focused on asking good questions, you can't also be taking perfect notes. Granola handles that, so the journalism stays sharp.

Internal meetings: Even our team syncs get captured now. Decisions don't get lost. Action items don't fall through the cracks.

Speaking engagements: Conversations with event organizers, podcast hosts, and collaborators all get documented without extra effort.

What changes when everyone uses it

When your whole team is using Granola, it has the full context of meetings across your team. That means you can query across folders of meetings. That's where it gets powerful.

For editorial, that means asking questions like "What themes kept coming up across our interviews this month?" or "What did sources say about [specific topic]?"

For leadership, it's useful for spotting patterns across 1:1s. What's top of mind for the team, where blockers keep appearing, what decisions need to be revisited.

For partnerships, it means pulling trends from sponsor conversations or tracking how priorities have shifted over a quarter.

Keeping things relevant

With most AI notetakers, you get a full transcript and a summary of the entire meeting. Maybe half of it is relevant to you. The rest is noise.

Granola works differently because you're flagging what matters as it happens. A quick note, a keyword, a name next to a decision. Those signals tell Granola what to focus on.

The result: 100% of your summary is relevant. No sifting through filler to find the parts you care about.

That's the difference we noticed most. Shorter notes. More useful. Actually worth reading after the call.

Try it on your next call

On average, it saves around 10 hours per week per person, not because we take better notes, but because we don’t have to redo the work after meetings.

Granola is one of those AI products we’ve used that naturally fits into existing workflows and just… works.

Download Granola for your next meeting, and get your first month free with the code THEDEEPVIEW