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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1st of all this is the most irritating part for me in a meeting . Still mageging to take notes in notepad ++
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 😉
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
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.
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).
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
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.
Thanks 🙂 Yea I've heard of this but we use Outlook and OneNote has the same option in-built.