Granola meetings
Backfilling vs. scheduling. Use a large
--days for an intentional
backfill after onboarding. For a scheduled agent, use --incremental --quiet
so repeat runs only pick up what’s new.
If the import comes back empty
If the import comes back empty
Newer Granola installs only populate the encrypted cache
(
cache-v6.json.enc), leaving the plaintext one empty. The CLI handles this —
it decrypts the cached WorkOS token via Electron safeStorage and talks to the
Granola API directly. If it still can’t get in, mint a personal API key in
Granola → Settings → Connectors → API keys and pass it once with
--api-key grn_...; it’s saved for future runs.Obsidian vaults
Re-runs are incremental. Unchanged notes are skipped locally, and re-synced
notes upsert rather than duplicating — so running this on a schedule is safe.
Media — audio, video, images
--dry-run first — it probes the file and prints the
plan with a cost estimate before you spend anything.
--speakers labels the positional SPEAKER_A / SPEAKER_B tags diarization
produces. Names are never guessed — if you don’t pass them, the speakers
stay positional.--full-video for screen recordings and demos where the motion carries the
meaning. For a talking-head recording, the audio track is enough.