How do you keep your meeting notes organised?

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Hey guys, for key notes and action items coming out of meetings, how do you keep that information organised to 1) make sure nothing falls through the cracks 2) easily find it later.

Do you have different systems depending on the type of meetings? or on the type of information (transient info valid for a week vs key knowledge to remember)?

Steven Hodgson · Accepted Answer

If I am using a physical notepad, I draw an upside-down T to divide the page into three parts. Top-left is actions I need to do, top-right is things that others will do (and I may need to chase up), and the bottom is for other notes. Nice and simple, but I need to go back at the end of the week and consolidate everything that's missing.

Now, I am using Meetric - a tool we built to help ourselves manage this exact problem. We are launching on Product Hunt today! https://www.producthunt.com/posts/meetric

Gleb Braverman · Answer

I am using a physical notepad as much as possible, cause it works much better for me - there's a lot of freedom in how you express your thoughts visually. That also kinda solves the organising problem for me - I can basically do it the way I want✌🏻

Alice Rodgers · Answer

@nataliekarakina @paul_henri_boudet you can use saved (like messages with yourself as notes), viber also have this function

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Cheryl Mack · Answer

This has been a game changer for me in meetings! My honest answer is that now I use Meetric to keep my notes organised. I used to use a combination of google docs, just typing in a new email and sending it to myself, and a physical notebook. Physical notebook isn't really viable anymore because I can't not be looking at the camera for a whole conversation. And email was good but not super trackable for later and clogs up my inbox.

Paul Boudet · Answer

How do you do it for your own meetings @samcurran ?  What methods/tools are you using?

Paul Boudet · Answer

@nik_hazell Aha sounds familiar!

Paul Boudet · Answer

@nataliekarakina Telegram the messaging app? How do you make it work for meeting notes?

Natalie Karakina · Answer

I keep everything on Telegram, then move only important things to Notion

Paul Boudet · Answer

@gleb_braverman Nice one Gleb. There is something irreplaceable with a physical pad indeed. How do you manage important knowledge coming out meetings that you need to store or easily remember later? I imagine it'll be hard to find it later once you've used a few notepads...

Steven Hodgson · Answer

@mary_saas Hugo is impressive, but not great on mobile. Meetingbird, Hypercontext, Docket, wisembly jam, and Fellow are other similar good products. But we wanted the simplicity of having notes and action items together, so we built Meetric.

Sofia Polonska · Answer

My favorite way is good old paper) but afterwards i do short protocol with main tasks and insights and send it to the team)

Chandan Das · Answer

Noted at paper and then save at Drive with proper date

Gleb Braverman · Answer

@paul_henri_boudet great question! I try to go over my notes later the same day and just add all relevant info to Notion (we use it at Gossip). Works great so far!

KimSuyeon · Answer

Utilize notepad to store all your ideas and records. And I record it using my tablet PC!

How do you keep your meeting notes organised?

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