What are the best tools for 1 on 1 meetings?

Question

I'm looking for the best tools for taking 1 on 1 meetings.
Taking notes, prepare summaries/action items ?

Manuela Bárcenas · Accepted Answer

Managers: Fellow.app is the best tool for your one-on-one meetings 🙌

Join thousands of leaders at companies such as Shopify, SurveyMonkey, Webflow, and Gong.io – and start using Fellow to:

📝 Plan meeting agendas collaboratively.
💡 Get suggested questions and timely reminders to engage with your team.
✉️ Send meeting notes via email or Slack.
✅ Delegate action items and keep track of assigned tasks.
💾 Customize your own meeting templates – and save them for  recurring 1:1s.
💬 Use the private notes section to record your thoughts.
🎯 Set goals, exchange ongoing feedback, and engage in your direct report’s growth.
📅 Link meeting notes to calendar events.

You can learn more about Fellow's one-on-one meeting feature here: https://www.fellow.app/one-on-one-software

Give it a try - (it's free!)

Your team will thank you! 😉

Shannon Stubbings · Answer

SoapBox is a one-on-one meeting tool used by over 30,000 managers. It's designed to help managers communicate more effectively with their teams, boost productivity and stay organized. Here's what you can do with SoapBox (free!) 👇

💻 Collaborate on a shared meeting agendas
📝 Take notes, comment and summarize what you discuss
📧 Automatically email meeting notes
🏃‍♀️ Add next steps and action items
🕐 Revisit past one-on-one meetings
📅 Sync meetings with your calendar
🧐 Spark ideas with the SoapBox question suggester
🔗 Integrate with Slack, Microsoft Teams and Google
📌 Personalized home page with all upcoming meetings, action items and more in one central place

Check out more ways SoapBox can supercharge 🚀 your one-on-one meetings here: https://soapboxhq.com/features/one-on-ones

Erin Blaskie · Answer

Even before joining the company, I was using Fellow.app to manage my direct reports and host better meetings with my team. I found it incredibly useful and loved that my team felt like they could add meeting agenda items into the tool throughout the week so that our one-on-one meetings were much more productive and efficient.

I've also started using the personal streams to get myself organized and I LOVE that I can drag/drop action items from meetings straight into a stream. It's kept me incredibly organized and Fellow has really become a critical part of my daily workflow.

The best part about working at Fellow now is being able to work on building a tool that people use and love... and being able to nerd out about productivity day in and day out. Give it a try - you'll love it!

flo merian · Answer

Jam by Wisembly is a great tool to automate meeting preparation, to produce outcomes (notes, tasks, and decisions) and to respect the time schedule.

Amy Lowe · Answer

It's a general purpose tool but we use it for meetings a lot. The real time collaborative docs are great for planning an agenda, taking meeting notes, assigning tasks, and following up.

Laure Albouy · Answer

Slite is a great tool to store one on one meeting notes, create template for your one on ones and add action items.

Wilhelm Bacher · Answer

If you're looking for a tool to facilitate customer facing meetings / Co-browsing, I'd recommend Demodesk:
No downloads, fully interactive and it helps with scheduling.

Full disclosure: I work at Demodesk

Alex Potrivaev · Answer

You can take a look at Teambit (I'm one of the co-founders here). Using lightweight surveys you can prepare the agenda for each week's meeting and with ability to share regular feedback and praise you can be sure that your interactions won't be limited to a one time a week.

Sneha Mittal · Answer

Send automated email/SMS reminders, accept online payments, add booking constraints, add a zoom link automatically, create different default time slots (15-min, 30-min, 75-min and so on) and the best part it is free foever with most important features already available in the free version.

Diego von Sohsten · Answer

Teamworki lets you add agenda items and takeaways to meetings you already have.
And it's free :)

Works with Slack, Microsoft Teams, Google Calendar, and Outlook. Learn more: https://www.teamworki.com/one-on-one-meeting-using-teamworki/

Atif Qureshi · Answer

I think its best for video conferencing. You can record up to 45 minutes conversation in the free package.

Tejas Kinger · Answer

I'd pick Zoom.us for remote 1-1 meetings. Infinitely better than Skype, Hangouts or GoToMeeting.

Lisa Neu · Answer

Demodesk screen sharing allows both presenter and viewer can click and type simultaneously. It lets you even share control with multiple parties at the same time.

Doesn't require any downloads or extensions. It works out of the box with any device and any browser, lag-free - yes, also Internet Explorer! Anyone can join by just clicking a link. And because Demodesk acts like a normal website, even the strictest firewalls won’t block it.

It comes with automated scheduling, so you Calendly is basically integrated already. Also, Demodesk offers real-time sales guidance to giving advice in sales demos.

It's not only a collaborating tool, but also audio & video conferencing tool.

Demodesk can be used for sales demos, customer onboarding, success and support.

Full disclosure: I work at Demodesk"

Nirmala Rao Dhanawada · Answer

I loved appear.in for team collaborations. Takes less than a minute to register and get yourself a permalink to share with others and just like that, you are in a meeting already.

Technology Talk · Answer

Real time Office Messenger Application and One on One Office Meeting App

Hiba Amin · Answer

I didn't realize how a tool like this could be so crucial for sparking meaningful and impactful conversations with my manager. The suggested questions feature SoapBox offers has been such a blessing to have, especially as someone who doesn't always know what to ask in one-on-ones.

Since using SoapBox, I leave meetings feeling more excited about my job and more prepared to just crush it!!

Dionis Loire · Answer

Taskade lets you video conference, write notes, and manage tasks all on the same page. We use it as a remote team to get on calls for our stand ups, scrum meetings, and planning our upcoming milestones / roadmaps.

Lisa Dziuba · Answer

We use Skype for 1 on 1 remote meetings :)

Natalie Luneva · Answer

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Patrick at Ajuvia · Answer

May be a little old fashioned. But has been extremely reliable to me.  It still works when other options failed. And it is simple to use.

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Troop Messenger, the new-age business communication tool comes with easy and simple to use functional application features. Users can access Troop messenger from Windows, Mac OS, Linux, Web, Android and iOS.

Natalie Luneva · Answer

Hi there, I've just published the list of 150+ SaaS tools to accelerate and streamline your business growth! Feel free to check it out and leave your feedback 😉
https://www.producthunt.com/posts/150-tools-to-accelerate-saas-growth
PS. For those founders who are just starting out, you can also save big $$ with this list, because many of the SaaS tools I mention are completely free to use 👌

Parthibakumar Murugesan · Answer

Mirrorfly’ video calling solution, connect users in a whole of about 100 +participants or individual for a lively conversation on the go. video calling SDK for mobile & web serve beyond the possibilities to make secure & peer-to-peer video conference on Android, iOS & Websites

Sonika Mehta · Answer

Been using this for a while now and works quite great, especially with Calendly integration. Having said that, I have heard a lot about Zoom and are probably going to give it a try soon too!

Raj Mahal · Answer

If you are doing video meetings, Appear.in is sweet. Really easy to use as everything is in browser and free.

Iván Fanego · Answer

I love it. It is super easy to use, and reliable.

girish wadhwani · Answer

Re:Schedule is a calendar built for meetings such as 1:1s. Simply tap a meeting in your calendar to open up a workspace for the meetings. 
- Add a structured agenda to your meeting 
- Take notes organized to the agenda structure 
- Assign action items 
- Review past meeting notes history

The output of the meeting such as notes and action items are automatically pushed to participants' Re:Schedule calendars. You can track them directly from your calendar.

And there's a whole lot more. Re:Schedule integrates with Google Calendar.

Rafael Marques · Answer

The quality of image and sound is really good, and also very reliable. But what strikes me all the time, it's how easy is to just start a new meeting.

Rafael Marques · Answer

The quality of image and sound is really good, and also very reliable. But what strikes me all the time, it's how easy is to just start a new meeting.

Manoj Khandelwal · Answer

One of the best tool for 1:1. Reasons why are they best -

1. library of 1000+ suggested questions and pre-built templates to maintain consistency and spark engaging conversations
2. Create and track action items from 1:1
3. Keep Record of all 1:1 
4. Check productivity and performance trend of team
5. Set up reminder for 1:1 actions
6. Keep track of all not-discussed talking points
7. Integration with Slack and teams to notify
8. Integration with Google Calendar and Microsoft to sync calendar
9. Free Sign up

Rafael Marques · Answer

The quality of image and sound is really good, and also very reliable. But what strikes me all the time, it's how easy is to just start a new meeting.