Efficiently reviewing meeting recordings is key to enhancing productivity and ensuring no detail is overlooked. Here we describe how to interact with your meeting recordings in ways that suit your review process.
The Summary Tab
The new Summary Page in Grain is your one-stop destination for making meetings more actionable and insightful. With features designed to streamline navigation, highlight key outcomes, and assign actionable next steps, this page ensures that your team stays aligned and productive post-meeting. Let's learn about each of the sections on the Summary tab:
Purpose
Provides a concise summary of the meeting’s focus and goals.
Helps ensure all participants understand why the conversation occurred and its intended outcomes.
You can edit this section to align the summary with your team’s understanding.
Chapters
Automatically segments meetings into key discussion area's for easy navigation.
Enables you to quickly jump to relevant sections, such as sales discovery questions or feedback.
Eliminates the need to scroll through lengthy recordings to find what you need.
Outcomes
Summarizes the meeting’s main results, including decisions made and opportunities identified.
Serves as a quick reference for key takeaways.
Action Items
A dedicated section to assign tasks and follow-ups to team members.
Ensures clarity of next steps and streamlines accountability for post-meeting actions.
How to Access and Use the Summary Page
Locate the Summary Page:
Open your meeting recording in Grain.
Click on the "Summary" tab in the navigation bar.
Review and Edit the Purpose:
The Purpose section provides the meeting’s focus. You can edit this to ensure it accurately reflects the discussion.
Navigate Through Chapters:
Use the Chapters section to jump directly to relevant segments of the meeting.
Click on a chapter title to view that specific portion of the recording.
Review Outcomes:
Outcomes display a summary of key decisions and insights.
This section can be used as a reference to recap the meeting’s value.
Assign Action Items:
In the Action Items section, assign tasks to team members with clear deadlines.
This ensures that post-meeting responsibilities are clearly communicated and tracked.
Video playback
Adjust playback speed: You have the flexibility to adjust the playback speed of your recordings. Simply click on the speed indicator and select the desired speed from the dropdown menu.
Navigation shortcuts: Use the left and right arrow keys to jump backward or forward by 10 seconds in your recording for quick reference and review.
Full screen: Click the arrow on the top right of the video playback screen to make the video full screen.
Picture-in-picture playback: Click the double square icon next to the full screen icon on the top right of the video playback screen to enable picture-in-picture viewing. This allows you to play and view a recording while using other tabs on your internet browser.
Timeline
Use the timeline to see who spoke when, and for how long. Use it to analyze speaking times, or to quickly find parts of the call that deserve a deeper review. The timeline bar also shares when screen share took place in the meeting.
Speaker-Specific Playback: Click the play button next to a specific speaker's name to play back only sections of the recording where that speaker is speaking. This feature makes it easy to review contributions by each participant.
Transcript
Speaker blocks: Scroll through the transcript and review the transcript as stated by each speaker. Clicking within the transcript makes the video playback jump to that part of the call.
Search Functionality: Utilize the search bar to find specific keywords within the transcript of your recording. This feature helps you quickly navigate to relevant sections without manual scrolling.
By leveraging the features of the Summary Page, you can transform how your team reviews and interacts with meeting recordings. From quickly navigating through chapters to assigning actionable tasks and gaining insights with the timeline and transcript tools, Grain ensures that every detail of your meeting is accessible and actionable. Start using the Summary Page today to streamline your workflow and keep your team aligned.