Taking meeting notes / tracking

[Old Hack]

Massive cultural difference between US and the UK. Those guys love meetings. They're meeting mad. The extra hours they work are to make up for the meeting suck & at the end of them no-one has taken any actions, so when they meet up again no-one has done anything.

So far I've built out a detailed project plan / tasks, with over 200 individual actions & I'm only half way through my notes.

I need to be smarter to work on this one though.

FTFY

[Old Hack]

Record and transcribe. Then you also have the actual recording when someone says, no, I didn't actually say that, and you then say, really? Listen to this...

Taking notes is for secretaries...

[MarillionFan]

Massive cultural difference between US and the UK. Those guys love meetings. They're meeting mad. The extra hours they work are to make up for the meeting suck & at the end of them no-one has taken any actions, so when they meet up again no-one has done anything.

So far I've built out a detailed project plan / tasks, with over 200 individual actions & I'm only half way through my notes.

I need a smarter way to work on this one though.

[darmstadt]

I take a pillow and blanket as whatever is said is basically bollocks by people who have no idea and just go ahead and do my thing afterwards which turns out to be what they wanted anyway.

[EternalOptimist]

GRP

Goals,Roles and Processes.

meetings are probably one of the biggest resource sinks known to man. Therefore they have to be taken seriously and planned meticulously.
Everyone has a role, there must be a clear goal, and the minutes must be published within 24 hours

if I am not taking minutes, I take scribbly notes on an A4 pad - one per project.

[BlasterBates]

I keep rough notes during the meeting but write up the key points straight after i.e. not minutes but make it understandable. If you wait too long you forget what the comments you wrote down mean. Only takes 5 or 10 mins to write it up.

[SimonMac]

I am old skool, A5 note pad and pencil.

Each new project gets a new notebook which I record everything in.

[SupremeSpod]

Really? How do you use a mind map for a meeting. Concepts maybe? But notes?

Meetings follow a theme and have a purpose.

Track those with actions and make the various connections as the meeting progresses.

Works for me.

[Pondlife]

This is exactly where my iPad earns it's keep. I use an app called Daily Notes that I can put the minutes into directly and then email out before people have left their seats. Or you can send it to yourself and tidy it up a bit before sending it out 10 minutes later.

If I had a load of meetings and preferred to write I'd use and Echo/Smart pen. They will record the meeting as well as convert to text.

Livescribe :: Never Miss A Word

CJ, do you type on the iPad or use a stylus type pen thingy?

[MarillionFan]

Mind maps.

Also, because most of our meetings are geographically spread, we use GoToMeeting and I record the meeting.

Really? How do you use a mind map for a meeting. Concepts maybe? But notes?

[SupremeSpod]

Just interested in what process people use for capturing & taking meeting notes.

On main meetings I put together(or someone) will do minutes with an action list. I then track my actions seperately.

But for the main, do you just have a notepad you take, do it on the laptop during the meeting or write up afterwards??

I remember most, but I still tend to write up afterwards, but now have 3 weeks of notes to read back through!!!

Mind maps.

Also, because most of our meetings are geographically spread, we use GoToMeeting and I record the meeting.

[Doggy Styles]

Either, depending on the meeting and the subject.

[cojak]

This is exactly where my iPad earns it's keep. I use an app called Daily Notes that I can put the minutes into directly and then email out before people have left their seats. Or you can send it to yourself and tidy it up a bit before sending it out 10 minutes later.

If I had a load of meetings and preferred to write I'd use and Echo/Smart pen. They will record the meeting as well as convert to text.

Livescribe :: Never Miss A Word

[MarillionFan]

Just interested in what process people use for capturing & taking meeting notes.

On main meetings I put together(or someone) will do minutes with an action list. I then track my actions seperately.

But for the main, do you just have a notepad you take, do it on the laptop during the meeting or write up afterwards??

I remember most, but I still tend to write up afterwards, but now have 3 weeks of notes to read back through!!!