Claude skills for automating Granola exports and better meeting notes

I’ve created some Claude skills to improve my quality of life around meeting transcriptions and notes. I hope they’ll improve your quality of life, too!

Automate your Granola exports

I use Granola for meeting transcription. It records your computer’s audio so you can use it with any video chat tool (whether Zoom, Google Meet, Teams, Slack huddle, etc.), and the transcription quality is great. But Granola doesn’t have an automated export, and it’s easy to accumulate more Granola items than you have time to manually export or copy / paste.

So I created my own automated Granola export using a Claude skill and a Cowork scheduled task.

Granola Export Skill

This skill exports a Granola meeting note (summary + transcript) to a formatted markdown file.

You can invoke the skill to manually export a Granola transcript, or create a Cowork scheduled task to automate it.

Cowork Scheduled Task

Here’s what my scheduled task looks like:

Scheduled Task name: daily-granola-export

Task description: Export Granola notes for the day

Prompt:

• Check my Granola at the end of my workday for any notes created that day.

• Run the /granola-export skill on each of those notes.

• Skip any notes that /granola-export has already been run on, either because I manually triggered /granola-export on that note or I manually triggered the `daily-granola-export` scheduled task earlier in the day.

• Then run /working-session-notes on the outputs. (See below for this skill.)

Better Notes for Working Sessions

Auto-generated meeting summaries are often lacking. In particular, they don’t capture helpful notes for what I think of as working sessions (aka jam sessions aka seshes 🎸), which are the majority of my meetings.

Jam sessions are full of messy, organic collaboration. People think out loud, revisit things, and leave threads unresolved. Someone might mention a discovery nugget that won’t be relevant for a couple months. We might make tentative decisions about some parts of a solution, table others, and discuss potential alternatives to explore. Crucially, the collaborative thought process and interim decisions are almost as important for future reference as the eventual “where we landed” decisions. But these are often omitted from auto-generated meeting summaries.

So I created a skill that generates more helpful synthesized notes from working session transcripts. You can run this on transcript outputs from any tool — it doesn’t have to be a Granola transcript.

Granola + Working Session Notes

To save a step, this skill combines the Granola Export skill and Working Session Notes skill. Use it if you find the working session notes are more helpful than Granola’s standard meeting summary.