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Coming from Granola?

Granola gives you a clean summary of the call. Kola keeps the people who were on it.

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Choose Granola if

  • You want the meeting written up well
  • Notes are the thing you keep
  • You work meeting to meeting

Choose Kola if

  • You want the people, not just the notes
  • You need email and messages in the same place
  • You come back to someone months later
What Granola is for

Same call, different thing kept.

Granola is a meeting notetaker. It listens to the call and turns your rough notes into a written summary afterwards.

Kola records and writes up calls too, on your Mac. What happens next is the difference. The transcript attaches to the people who were in the room.

What Granola Kola
Made for Writing up the meeting you just had Remembering the people you meet
Reads The call you are on Email, calendar, messengers, recorded calls and your notes
You end up with A written summary of that call A page per person that keeps updating
Who it suits Anyone who runs a lot of meetings Anyone whose work runs on who they know

The call lands on the people

A transcript is filed against everyone who was on it, so it comes back when you ask about them. You do not have to remember which meeting it was.

A call is one signal of many

Email, calendar, messengers and your own notes are read as well. A recording is one of the things Kola knows about a person, not the only one.

Recording and transcription are local

Both run on your Mac, and what they produce is kept there too.

A person record in Kola: contact fields, relationship strength, and tabs for emails, meetings, notes and circle

The call ends up here, on the people who were on it.

Switching

There is nothing to migrate.

Kola does not import from another tool, and it does not need to. It reads the same accounts you already connected elsewhere and builds its own picture from them.

  1. 1

    Install Kola.

    One download, signed and notarized by Apple. Nothing to export from Granola first.

  2. 2

    Connect an account.

    Start with the mailbox and calendar you live in. Kola reads them in the background and fills itself in.

  3. 3

    Keep both for a while.

    Nothing forces a decision. Run them side by side and keep whichever earns its place.

Questions

Before you switch.

Does Kola record and transcribe calls?

Yes. Recording and transcription run on your Mac, and the transcript attaches to the people who were on the call.

Can I keep using Granola?

Yes. They do different jobs, and nothing in Kola depends on where your meeting notes live.

Do I have to import anything to get started?

No. Connect the same accounts you already use and Kola builds itself from them. There is nothing to export from anywhere else first.

Which accounts can it read?

Gmail, Outlook and Apple Mail, Google and Outlook calendars, Google and Apple Contacts, Telegram, WhatsApp, Slack, LinkedIn, Instagram and Facebook. Connect only the ones you use.

What does it need to run?

An Apple Silicon Mac. Kola is signed and notarized by Apple, so it opens with a normal double-click.

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Never forget who you know.

Install Kola and connect an account. Kola builds your contacts from there.

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