Seriesly vs Granola
Granola is a polished, bot-free notepad with cross-meeting search through Chat and Spaces. The catch: you organize the Spaces, and you ask for the memory. Seriesly makes the recurring series the unit and carries what was still open forward on its own.
The difference
Granola has cross-meeting memory — but it lives in Chat (ask a question, get an answer) and Spaces (folders you drag meetings into by hand). It is real, and it is second-class: the remembering is still your job.
Seriesly threads each recurring meeting on its own automatically. When your next 1:1 opens, what was unresolved last time is already on screen — no query, no folder to maintain. On top of that it adds delta (what changed while you were away), an auto pre-meeting brief, per-person briefs across every source, and research across your meetings, calendar, and Obsidian vault — not just past calls.
And where Granola is a cloud account whose defaults allow training on your notes unless you change them, Seriesly keeps everything in a local SQLite file on your Mac, on-device by default.
Where Granola is strong
- ✓Bot-free capture and clean, enhanced notes written live during the call
- ✓Cross-meeting search via Chat, and Spaces for grouping related meetings
- ✓A polished, fast, widely-loved interface
Where Seriesly goes further
- →Series memory is automatic. Unresolved threads from a recurring meeting surface in the next one with no query and no Space to maintain by hand.
- →Delta. A written diff of what changed across every thread while you were away — Granola has no equivalent.
- →Auto pre-meeting prep. A brief synthesized from past meetings and your tools, ~20 minutes before the call.
- →Cross-source research. One question across your meetings, calendar, and Obsidian vault, with citations.
- →Local and private by default. Notes live on your Mac in a file you own; nothing trains a model by default.
Keep your notes. Add a memory.
Mac-native, on-device, free for thirty meetings.