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I don't think it's the way to go for everyone. Some people have fantastic memories and can really retain a lot of what was said during a meeting. I don't, which

I don't think it's the way to go for everyone. Some people have fantastic memories and can really retain a lot of what was said during a meeting. I don't, which is why note-taking is so important to me. I focus as much as I can on the points being made, and summarize those with bullet points. Usually 1-2 pages max, depending on how long it lasts. I simply don't want to get out of a meeting and think "what the hell did we talk about in there?!", and realize that it was useless. Ofc other considerations come into play and many meetings are actually wastes of time anyway

dSebastien 4y ago
To write my ideas down, I take advantage of small downtimes and moments when there's no useful information being exchanged (which happens quite a lot). For instance, whenever I realize that people are just agreeing with each other, when people repeat the same things, when they are arguing. I try to capture keywords when I know I don't have time to write full sentences, so that I can remain active in the discussion and bring value to it while not forgetting the points I need to expand on in my notes
tluyben2 4y ago
I record meetings (phone and irl), put them through a transcribe service, save the text in Joplin and fix it up/annotate/clean it up it a bit and then throw the recording away.
- dSebastien 4y ago
  Isn't that too "noisy"? I mean I wouldn't want to have a full transcript of all my meetings. 95+% of the discussions aren't valuable after the meeting is over. It would be great if an AI could summarize it all though :p
  - tluyben2 4y ago
    Well, I was there and focusing (not making notes), so relatively close to the meeting, I know the relevant points which I can quickly copy/paste to the top of the meeting doc and leave the rest in the bottom. Works well for me and saved us quite a lot of times when people had things like 'but you said'. No we didn't; here is the meeting transcript. People have very selective memory (or act like they do) towards their own benefit.

dSebastien 4y ago

To write my ideas down, I take advantage of small downtimes and moments when there's no useful information being exchanged (which happens quite a lot). For instance, whenever I realize that people are just agreeing with each other, when people repeat the same things, when they are arguing. I try to capture keywords when I know I don't have time to write full sentences, so that I can remain active in the discussion and bring value to it while not forgetting the points I need to expand on in my notes

tluyben2 4y ago

I record meetings (phone and irl), put them through a transcribe service, save the text in Joplin and fix it up/annotate/clean it up it a bit and then throw the recording away.

dSebastien 4y ago
Isn't that too "noisy"? I mean I wouldn't want to have a full transcript of all my meetings. 95+% of the discussions aren't valuable after the meeting is over. It would be great if an AI could summarize it all though :p
- tluyben2 4y ago
  Well, I was there and focusing (not making notes), so relatively close to the meeting, I know the relevant points which I can quickly copy/paste to the top of the meeting doc and leave the rest in the bottom. Works well for me and saved us quite a lot of times when people had things like 'but you said'. No we didn't; here is the meeting transcript. People have very selective memory (or act like they do) towards their own benefit.