With so many new AI Note Takers - what's your favorite and why?
I've tested so many AI Note takers as of late. @Fathom, @Fireflies.ai đ, BuildBetter, @Grain, and even Google's Transcribing feature. They're all pretty good but lately @Granola has been winning me over.
BuildBetter is really good for teams, has a nice chat function that lets you chat across all your meetings and get good insight from your team members, calls, clients, etc.
But for personal, and individual notes - Granola is a champion. Recently I've been using Granola's new mobile app for in-person convos and it's amazing. Particularly for my conversations in Japanese, where the chances of me misinterpreting something, missing a key note, or simply not knowing a word are higher. Granola captures all key points and topics and WRITES THE NOTES IN ENGLISH.
Literal immediate translating assistant. I'm not sure if other's do this, but Granola has been the easiest to quickly boot up and get my notes in a snap...without needing to translate.
I'm curious what everyone else uses and why!
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I saw fathom on a video call, downloaded it, and never looked back.
It's great.
I don't see a lot of opportunity to meaningfully differentiate in this space, and my hunch is that prices will come down or there will be consolidation.
Like yeah, the quality of the notes can be better from one app to another, but the rising tide of AI progress will lift all ships here.
Other than that, all the cool features I've seen introduces can be pretty easily copied by all well-funded competitors.
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@emikes919 I liked Fathom when I used it, but I hate having a bot in my meetings. That's the main reason I switched to Granola. I also use @Amie for calendar + todos and have the automatic meeting recording on, so I actually get two sets of notes, 1 from Granola (that I actually take notes in) and 1 from Amie. They are both solid!!
@evantaylor interesting! Yeah i feel like outside the startup space, people have a light aversion to meeting bots, but at this stage, people are becoming numb to them. Granola looks cool! No windows tho!!!
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@emikes919 @emikes919 I totally disagree. đ
The prompts that each of these platforms use to generate notes, along with the different templates they provide and their integrations with third-party services and APIs make each one quite different.
You might say that an Android phone is the same as an iPhone, but it's obviously a matter of taste and emphasis. My notes in Granola are completely different than my notes from Fathom, even for the same meeting!
The notes these products output are much more nuanced in the details, just as car or phone brands!
@chrismessina maybe then the best one will rise to the top and acquire the others!
@emikes919 Completely agree. Fathom is a great product but the quality of the transcript can improve.
I too have tested a lot of them, and I am on Granola as well. It does what I need, it does a great job, it is less intrusive in meetings as it sits on your desktop and just does its job. I use Google workspace so with @Granola and Google I have things covered.
I have not tried the mobile app but I will check it out. Thanks for the share.
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@lee_roquet1 yeah Granola is just light and gets the job done. It also gets the summary/notes really well. Not overwhelming notes but it captures everything it needs to.
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We can divide note takers into two:
Recording + notes (usually requires a bot to join) - I personally like Grain for user interviews, but havenât tried many others. My understanding is that sales is the dominant use case.
Just notes - No bot/recording:
@Granola is the one I hear the most about.
@Circleback also has great reviews
@Notion just released â/meetingâ which is the only one Iâve used - it was far from being useful for user interviews (the insights are often not obvious without a lot of context on both the user and the product).
Personally Iâm a bit of a late adopter to AI notetakers because I take copious notes by hand, butâŠactually as I was writing this a friend told me Granola was the first product in a long time she really loves. Ok maybe I need to try Granola đ
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I have not played around with them too much. We use Google Meets, so the Gemini tool is usually the default. It is pretty good but needs some doctoring before sharing with othersâI do think that could be said for most tools though.
Always exciting to see more tools launch. Especially if this produces shorter notes, that would be awesome. There's usually so much fluff you have to comb through to get the more important parts to shine.
I've tried quite a few too. Scribbl.co , Otter.ai, Fireflies.ai , and Metaview.ai . All solid in their own ways.
Recently I discovered Noota.io and Iâve been really impressed. Itâs well focused, easy to use, and offers clear, structured transcription. Definitely worth checking out, it feels like it's gaining momentum fast.
Also, thanks for mentioning Granola. I hadnât heard of it before but it sounds super promising, especially for multilingual in-person conversations. Iâll definitely give it a try!
I'd like to try it, but I have a windows machine. Does anyone know when they'll have the windows version up?
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I'm currently using a mix of Fathom and Granola for my meetings.
I find Granola quite good for longer conversations, especially for high-level summaries, so I can quickly return to the notes and get a good sense of the topic without diving into all the details.
Fathom does a much better job of getting into the nitty-gritty and specifics, though sometimes its notes are a bit redundant. I like how Fathom exports to-do lists and a useful meeting summary, and it also generates an email after a call that I can quickly send to clients.
Additionally, because Granola doesn't hold on to the audio or video, I find that it's not as useful for calls with lots of screen sharing and visual reviews. In those cases, Fathom is much more useful. I also find being able to snip and highlight different parts of calls in Fathom is useful.
So, I find both necessary, but they cover quite different ground.