Apps

Many of my colleagues have been using Granola or similar apps to transcribe and get highlights and summaries of all meetings. In meetings where people don’t need to look at their laptops, everyone is still always keeping their laptops a tiny bit open, either for some agent working or for recording/transcribing. Apps like these record invisibly, no AI notekeeper is joining the actual Google Meet/Zoom/Teams meeting so you have no idea that this is going on. There is of course some privacy issues with this - people should ask permission or at least inform their colleagues that they are recording/transcribing the meeting! It can be uncomfortable not knowing if everything you said is being recorded without you knowing. ...

I always enjoy getting tips from friends about great apps or services they use, so this post is about what apps I really like and use. My favorite productivity apps: Obsidian (MacOS, iOS) (free) I take a lot of notes and I save a lot of information, snippets from books, pod transcripts etc. I need a place to dump all my notes and thoughts to easily find them again. I’ve used other personal wikis before and Obsidian is my current favorite. You can tag, cross-reference between notes etc. Obsidian is great for this, and it’s possible to keep a vault in iCloud to sync between devices. Highly recommended. ...