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Since this is content marketing for meetnotes.co (which looks like a pretty cool service) I feel like it's reasonable to give some constructive criticism to the

by wwalser 10y ago

Since this is content marketing for meetnotes.co (which looks like a pretty cool service) I feel like it's reasonable to give some constructive criticism to the team behind the product. Remove "Beta" from your marketing site. Please. People, especially early adopters, know that software is made by people. If something goes wrong or doesn't work, people are willing to forgive other people. The beta label can only hurt you at this point. Great work getting to the front page of Hacker News :)

ams6110 10y ago
Looks nicely done, what little I can see without divulging my entire Google calendar to the service. But I'm honestly having trouble seeing what this does that isn't just as easily handled by Google Docs, Word, or any other editor.
- anshum4n 10y ago
  I am not sure if you got to try adding an action item. You can just type "@ams6110 Need to do something" and meetnotes records it as an action item which would then be tracked and followed up, the key being follow-up and status tracking. The idea there is that while taking notes I don't want to look at the screen and click a button to add an action item, set its assignee and due date etc. I would rather participate more in the meeting and just keep typing (touch typist should get me), with the tool being smart enough to parse it as an action item. Its not as smart as it should be, but thats where we want to be. Another small but neat feature is interactive widgets. I am not sure if you saw the how you can run an instant rating with all the participating. Its just one widget right now, but we are planning to add many more like poll, survey, mini-workflows, scrum templates etc. Let me know if that did / didn't make sense. Happy to hear feedback! PS: Before this, I myself was a heavy user for Google Docs for taking notes.
anshum4n 10y ago
@wwalser You got us! I am surprised as well that we got to HN front page and the amazing discussion that ensued. While that blog took couple weeks to put together, I believe its testimony more to how everyone hates meetings and how they are run, rather than our ingenuity in writing the blog. We believe meetings are world wide epidemic. There are lot many tools trying to make them just a tad bit better. The real ingenuity on our part would be if meetnotes.co ends up solving the pain in a major way! I believe we are on the cusp of change and it can just about be done with some AI, a bit of NLP and some great UX thrown in! Would love to get feedback and hear opinion.

by wwalser 10y ago

ams6110 10y ago

Looks nicely done, what little I can see without divulging my entire Google calendar to the service. But I'm honestly having trouble seeing what this does that isn't just as easily handled by Google Docs, Word, or any other editor.

anshum4n 10y ago
I am not sure if you got to try adding an action item. You can just type "@ams6110 Need to do something" and meetnotes records it as an action item which would then be tracked and followed up, the key being follow-up and status tracking. The idea there is that while taking notes I don't want to look at the screen and click a button to add an action item, set its assignee and due date etc. I would rather participate more in the meeting and just keep typing (touch typist should get me), with the tool being smart enough to parse it as an action item. Its not as smart as it should be, but thats where we want to be. Another small but neat feature is interactive widgets. I am not sure if you saw the how you can run an instant rating with all the participating. Its just one widget right now, but we are planning to add many more like poll, survey, mini-workflows, scrum templates etc. Let me know if that did / didn't make sense. Happy to hear feedback! PS: Before this, I myself was a heavy user for Google Docs for taking notes.

anshum4n 10y ago

@wwalser You got us! I am surprised as well that we got to HN front page and the amazing discussion that ensued. While that blog took couple weeks to put together, I believe its testimony more to how everyone hates meetings and how they are run, rather than our ingenuity in writing the blog. We believe meetings are world wide epidemic. There are lot many tools trying to make them just a tad bit better. The real ingenuity on our part would be if meetnotes.co ends up solving the pain in a major way! I believe we are on the cusp of change and it can just about be done with some AI, a bit of NLP and some great UX thrown in! Would love to get feedback and hear opinion.