SparklyTaco
SparklyTaco

Taking minutes of a meeting

How do you guys take minutes of a meeting? Like how do you keep up with the conversation during the meeting ?

I'm having difficulty keeping up with the conversation and tend to miss important points. Currently I use OneNote to take minutes.

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SnoozyBagel
SnoozyBagel
TCS11mo

1st of all this is the most irritating part for me in a meeting . Still mageging to take notes in notepad ++

SparklyTaco
SparklyTaco
EY11mo

IKR. I miss understanding so many important points because I'm more concentrated on taking down the points. I was using notes too but then had to switch to OneNote cos there were too many minutes of meetings for me to keep track of.

SnoozyBagel
SnoozyBagel
TCS11mo

I should try onenote 🤔

GigglyPancake
GigglyPancake
EY11mo

Go old school. Keep a notebook and pen ready and start jotting down points in brief. Focus more on understanding what is discussed then giving attention to writing long/ more or else your attention span will miss the later points discussed while being busy in jotting.

Also, you can use an external sound recorder (audio recording software in your mobile would do the job) to keep track of what was discussed. Just don't let anyone from your engagement know that you record. This will not work though when you go to office and use headphones while on call. Unless you hop to an empty cabin when call starts 😉

SparklyTaco
SparklyTaco
EY11mo

Thanks @GoG :) Cabins are very rarely available in the office I work from. They're normally booked in bulk😑 I've tried the old school way too when I wasn't the scribe just to see how I'd be at it. Lol I sucked is what I found out! Someone else here also suggested recording on mobile but that it'll be time consuming.

But any other tips to take minutes will be hugely appreciated! I'm using OneNote atm which I suppose is also kinda old school

PerkyLlama
PerkyLlama

One thing what has worked for me in the past was, recording the meetings and then going back and listening to those meetings to write MoM - would slightly take some more time but it's one of the things I always was appreciated for, from my seniors, that my notes are always on point.

SparklyTaco
SparklyTaco
EY11mo

We can't record our meetings due to InfoSec violation. But as you say it does sound pretty effective.

PerkyLlama
PerkyLlama

I used to record on my phone :)

PeppyMarshmallow
PeppyMarshmallow

On teams chat in case of 1-on-1s. For meetings with larger group I record the session and take notes on slack chat. If it’s specific to design which I am presenting I take notes on Figma (as comments).

SparklyTaco
SparklyTaco
EY11mo

We can't record our meetings. It'll be InfoSec violation. Besides we don't have admin rights to install any software on our work laptop

DerpyNugget
DerpyNugget

Try using speech notes app from your cell phone..as far as I know it's the most accurate in real time transcribing..please also concentrate on meeting 🙃

SparklyTaco
SparklyTaco
EY11mo

Hmm interesting. Thank you 🙂

GroovyCupcake
GroovyCupcake

Google Calendar has an inbuilt- take notes option It opens a word doc and lets you write up the MoM in it and can easily share through.
It also shows up the attendees for the meeting.

SparklyTaco
SparklyTaco
EY11mo

Thanks 🙂 Yea I've heard of this but we use Outlook and OneNote has the same option in-built.

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