Typically nobody takes notes about what someone else is talking about. Instead the person who has the information enters it directly at the beginning of the me

Typically nobody takes notes about what someone else is talking about. Instead the person who has the information enters it directly at the beginning of the meeting. Typically the agenda will be divided into topics, and typically one or two people are most strongly associated with each topic, and that person typically has something to say (and record) for that item. Other people might have questions or suggestions that they can add there as well. So people naturally don't step on each other because they're not trying to take notes on what other people are saying, but instead record what they want to get across to other people in the meeting. It works really really well, as the burden of recording what other people say disappears almost completely, and each bit of information is naturally recorded by the person best suited to record that particular bit accurately. It works especially well for weekly staff meetings where you kind of "go around the room" and get status from each person on what they're working on (often, the verbal status is a very brief summary of the longer version that's recorded by that person in the notes), but it works pretty well for more focused meetings as well.