# Free / Basic mode

Granola Basic (Free) does **not** issue REST API keys and does **not** provide webhook automation to this PHP server.

What Basic does provide inside Granola itself:

- AI-enhanced meeting notes
- Granola Chat
- recent note history
- MCP access to your own recent notes, with plan restrictions

This project therefore treats a blank `granola.api_key` as **Free compatibility mode**:

1. Run Granola Desktop during the meeting.
2. When Granola creates the enhanced note, copy the note (and transcript if you want it).
3. Open `Manual Note` in this PHP app.
4. Paste and save. The project stores JSON and can email the note through Gmail.
5. Use `Search` to search the JSON files saved by this project.

This is intentionally not presented as an automatic Granola API integration because Basic has no API key/webhook entitlement.

Official references:
- https://docs.granola.ai/help-center/managing-your-account/subscriptions-and-billing
- https://docs.granola.ai/help-center/sharing/integrations/mcp
- https://docs.granola.ai/help-center/sharing/integrations/granola-api