In Richard Branson's book he makes a big deal about keeping detailed notes of meetings, and how useful he's found the practice to be over his career its really

In Richard Branson's book he makes a big deal about keeping detailed notes of meetings, and how useful he's found the practice to be over his career its really probably a very underrated habit, especially as a new, low on the totem pole person it probably makes you a very useful gatekeeper of the information flow the process of doing it probably reinforces the information flow into your brain for useful future brainstorming (it forces you to pay attention) also it gives you the basis for which you can influence future decisions "On (so and so date), according to my notes we said we wanted to do X, so now we should do Y" ----------- a suggestion, run how people's ideas are presented in your notes to them directly, before you distributed them to the wider audience "I'm trying to get the meeting notes together, this is how I have what you said about Y, do you mind looking at to make sure it accurately captures what you were saying?" "That's not what I said" or, more likely, "That's not what I meant" is a good way to create dysfunction where none needs to exist