Connect Google Calendar
Google Calendar is connected once, on the web, and then your meetings show on every device.
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Open Remindly on the web and go to Settings → Integrations.
Or open Calendar in the sidebar, which offers the same button above your meetings.
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Under Google Calendar, click Connect Google Calendar.
Sign in to Google in the window that opens, and allow Remindly to see your calendar events.
Remindly only reads your calendar. It never adds, changes or answers an event, and it reads your main calendar, not the others you've subscribed to.
On your iPhone, iPad and Mac, Calendar in the sidebar then lists each day's meetings above its reminders, and the agenda shows the next two months of them. Meetings you declined, cancelled events, out-of-office, focus time and birthdays are left out.
Take a note on a meeting
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Open Calendar and find the meeting.
Pick its day in the month, or scroll the agenda.
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Choose + Note.
The note opens, already filled in. Write in it during the meeting or before it to plan what to raise.
The note starts like this, and you can write anywhere in it:
- One note per meeting. The button then reads Open Note and takes you back to the same note, on any device.
- It keeps up. If the meeting moves or its agenda changes, opening the note again brings the new details in, and what you wrote stays.
- Repeating meetings get a note for each time they happen, so this week's standup isn't mixed in with last week's.
- Where it goes: the note is tagged
meetingand saved in your Meetings notebook, dated when the meeting starts, so it sorts with the day it happened.
Connect Granola
Granola takes notes while you're in a meeting. Connect it, and its summaries are saved in Remindly, next to everything else you keep. Any Granola plan works.
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Open Settings → Integrations.
On the web, or in Remindly on your iPhone, iPad or Mac. One connection covers all of them.
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Choose Connect Granola and sign in to Granola.
Use the Granola account you take your meeting notes in.
Remindly saves your meetings from the last 30 days straight away, then checks for new ones about every 30 minutes. Choose Sync Now (Sync Granola Now in the apps) to fetch the latest at once. A meeting shows up once Granola has written its summary.
Each meeting becomes a note with when it was, who was there and a link back to Granola, then Granola's Summary and My notes. Action items and next steps are checkboxes, so you can tick them off in Remindly, or give one a due date by typing it, like “Send the deck Friday”.
Where Granola puts meetings
Once Granola is connected, these options appear under it in Settings → Integrations. The apps name them slightly differently; the web's names come first.
| Setting | What it does | To start |
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| Save meetings to | The notebook meetings go into. Called Notebook in the apps. | Meetings |
| Granola folders as notebooks | A meeting in a Granola folder goes into a notebook of that name, inside the one above. Nested folders nest. | On |
| Granola folders as tags | Each meeting is tagged with the folders it's in. | On |
| Company tags | Each meeting is tagged with the companies of the people in it, from their email addresses. Your own company and personal addresses like Gmail are left out. | On |
Changing a setting re-sorts the last 30 days of meetings at the next sync.
Your changes win. Edit a meeting's note, move it to another notebook or change its tags, and later syncs leave it as you left it. A meeting note you delete in Remindly isn't brought back.
Calendar and Granola together
With both connected, a meeting still has one note. It doesn't matter which comes first:
You choose + Note first
You write your prep or notes under Notes. When Granola's summary syncs, it's added below them as Summary and My notes, with a link to Granola at the top. What you wrote stays where it is.
Granola saves it first
The meeting's row shows an Open Note button, and in the apps it says Granola notes. Open it, and the note gains the join link, the attendees and the agenda from your calendar, and keeps Granola's summary.
Remindly matches a calendar meeting to Granola's by its start time and title, so the two land in one note even if Granola calls it something slightly different.
Disconnect
- Google Calendar: on the web, Settings → Integrations → Google Calendar → Disconnect. Meetings stop showing in Calendar, and the notes you made for them stay.
- Granola: Disconnect on the web, or Disconnect Granola in the apps. Meetings stop syncing, and the notes already saved stay in Remindly.