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Claude MCP Tutorial: Granola Meeting Notes in 90 Seconds
By Darby Rollins · Published March 3, 2026 · 3,463 views on YouTube
Key takeaways
- Granola is available as a native MCP connector inside Claude, so no third-party setup tools are required
- You activate it from Settings, then Connectors, then Browse connectors, searching for Granola and signing in
- Once connected, you can prompt Claude directly, e.g. 'connect with my Granola and pull me the notes from my morning walk today'
- Claude can select 'always allow' for the connector so future requests don't require repeat permission prompts
- The whole setup, from opening connectors to Claude summarizing a Granola meeting, takes under two minutes
How to Connect Claude to Granola for Meeting Notes (90-Second Setup, 2026)
Granola captures your meetings. Claude can act on them — but only if it can see them. Connect the two through MCP and Claude can pull any set of notes instantly, then summarize, extract action items, and draft the follow-up. It takes under two minutes to set up, no code.
What you’ll learn
- How to add the Granola connector to Claude
- How to pull a specific meeting’s notes into a prompt
- How to turn raw notes into summaries, action items, and follow-ups
- Where this fits in an AI Chief of Staff workflow
Step-by-step
- Open Connectors in Claude. Settings Connectors.
- Add the Granola connector. Select Granola and authorize through your Granola account.
- Confirm access. Approve the connection so Claude can read your notes.
- Pull a meeting. Try: “Pull my notes from this morning’s call and give me the three decisions and who owns each.”
- Turn notes into action. Chain it: “Draft a follow-up email summarizing next steps and add the action items to Notion.”
What you can do once Claude is connected to Granola
- Summarize any meeting in seconds without re-reading the transcript
- Extract decisions, owners, and deadlines automatically
- Draft follow-up emails straight from the notes
- Search across past meetings by topic or person
- Feed meeting outcomes into the rest of your stack (email, tasks, docs)
Watch the full walkthrough
The under-two-minute setup is in the video above — or watch it on YouTube.
Connect the rest of your stack
Meeting notes are most useful when they flow somewhere. Connect Granola alongside Gmail and Notion and one prompt takes you from “what did we decide” to “follow-up sent, tasks logged.” See how we build AI Chiefs of Staff, brick by brick at genaiu.com.
Keep going: Connect Claude to Gmail Connect Claude to Notion The full MCP setup guide
Full video transcript
In this video, I’m going to show how to connect Claude to Granola in two minutes. You’re going to first go to Settings, Connectors, and more. Scroll on down to connectors. You’ll see I have a number of different MCP connectors here. You’re going to go to manage connectors to manage your own connectors, and I already have added into my account. You can see all the access it has. But if I go ahead and disconnect it, I’ll show you how to start from scratch. I’m going to go to connectors, plus, browse connectors, and just start typing Granola. Granola is right here as a native connector inside of Claude. What you’ll have to do next is sign in, and now you can start using your connector.
Now, to quick recap before we begin to use it: Connectors, Granola is now activated. If you go to manage tools and select Granola, you can see all the different permissions it has. For now, it’ll say, “Hey Claude, connect with my Granola and pull me the notes from my morning walk today.” I’m going to give Claude the prompt, and Claude will, via the Granola MCP connection, take the call and the information from this morning’s query. It can select “always allow” if you’d like, and it’s using Granola MCP as a tool, and Claude is giving me a summary of what I covered today on my morning walk.
Now, of course, what I can do is continue my conversation here, and I can also ask it to do other things with my other connectors. That is how you get Claude set up with Granola in under two minutes.
Quick recap: Connectors, manage connectors, Granola. Browse, add it to your account, and you should be all set.