Granola’s been everywhere lately, the AI note-taker everyone’s suddenly using for meetings. I wanted in. Then I actually thought about what it needed access to.
Recording a work meeting and running it through a third-party AI tool means company information leaving the building, into a system security hadn’t approved and wasn’t going to approve any time soon. Not worth it. The idea got vetoed before I’d even finished pitching it to myself.
So I went looking for something already sitting inside a tool we already used, one that had already cleared whatever internal approval mattered. Turned out Slack had it the whole time.
Huddles have AI notes built in
Slack Huddles, the audio-call feature most people use for quick chats, has an AI recording and note-taking option built in. Nothing new to install, nothing new to get approved. It was already there.
It works well when working remotely. But what I was missing was when I was having an in person meeting.
I made a channel called #note-taking and added one person: me. For an in-person meeting, I open that channel on my phone, start a Huddle, turn on AI recording, and put the phone on the desk.
Meeting begins. People chatter and it captures everything. Better than taking notes on paper because, let’s face it… my handwriting isn’t getting better, it’s getting worse.
The notes are ready when the meeting ends.
The notes have a weird side effect
Since I’m the only one in that Huddle, the notes read strange. Literally: “Myself said this to myself. Myself has this task.” Talking to myself, formalized into meeting minutes. First time I read one back, I laughed. Now I just skim past it.
Was it worth it?
Yes. The notes are an AI’s best guess at what people mumbled into my phone, so I still check them. They beat holding everything in my head until I get back to my desk. I miss fewer details now.
If security blocks the tool you want, check the software your company has approved. You may already have the feature you need.
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