Granola or Liminary

Choose between isolated meeting capture (Granola) or a compounding career asset (Liminary)

Choose Liminary if you want your meeting insights to compound into your long-term research rather than living in an isolated summary. 

Granola is a well-designed meeting notes app. It captures audio, blends your own notes with AI-generated summaries, and produces clean outputs without a meeting bot. For individual meeting capture, it works well.

But meetings don't happen in isolation. The discovery call you had on Tuesday connects to the competitor research you saved last week, the proposal template you've used for three years, and the client brief sitting in your Google Drive. Granola captures what was said. It doesn't connect it to anything else.

Where Granola stops

Granola produces meeting notes. Good ones. But those notes live in Granola and stay in Granola. There's no way to query across your research, your saved articles, or your past deliverables alongside your meeting transcript. Every meeting starts from zero context.

When you finish a call and need to draft a follow-up proposal, you leave Granola, open Google Docs, and start assembling context from three different tools. The meeting notes are in one place. The research is in another. The template is in a third. You are the integration layer.

Where Liminary goes further

Liminary captures your Google Meet conversations and puts them into the same knowledge base as your research, your saved web pages, your uploaded documents, and your past work. When you write in Google Docs afterward, Recall surfaces relevant context from the meeting and from everything else you've saved, automatically.

Ask a question that spans three meetings and a saved report? Liminary synthesises the answer with citations to each source. Granola can only search within individual meetings.

What Liminary adds that Granola doesn't

Persistent knowledge base. Your meeting notes live alongside your research, proposals, and saved resources in queryable collections. Everything is connected.

Recall in Google Docs (Our Tiny Core Superpower). While you write a proposal or deliverable, Liminary surfaces relevant insights from your meetings and your research. No tab-switching. No searching. This is the 'irreducible' core of our system that removes the friction of knowledge retrieval.

Fact-check and gap detection. Liminary cross-references your writing against your saved sources, catching errors before they reach a client.

Competitive intelligence agents. Set up an agent to monitor a prospect or competitor. It works in the background and surfaces relevant changes without you checking manually.

Chrome extension. Save anything from the web to your knowledge base with one click. Articles, PDFs, videos, competitor pages. All queryable, all connected to your meetings.

Upload files. Upload files directly from your computer into Liminary, or add files from Google Drive to Liminary so they become added context for your work

Who should use what

Granola is a strong choice if you want clean, simple meeting notes for individual calls and don't need your notes connected to anything else.

Liminary is built for people whose meetings are one part of a larger knowledge workflow: consultants, fractional executives, and professionals who need their meeting context to flow into research, proposals, and deliverables without manual reassembly.