Rich Hewes

Google’s Notebook LM turns your trusted sources into a private thinking partner. It’s taking the stress away from a real deep dive by surfacing patterns and compressing a week’s reading into usable insight for marketing (or other) teams.

Some tools feel like dashboards. Others feel like to‑do lists. Wispr Flow feels like something different, a place where you can just… talk. And, Wispr turns that talk into text you can use.

Welcome to The Productivity Playbook – our running series on tools built to make us faster, sharper, and a little less drained at work. This week: Granola, a very neat AI-powered note-taker that handles the messy parts of meetings so you can actually focus on the people in front of you. Before I dive in: as always in this series, this is an independent review, not a sponsored post. Why It Matters Meetings aren’t going anywhere. But the way we survive them? That’s up for grabs. Too often we s