There are two kinds of notes from a meeting: the formal minutes and the ones you keep for yourself. The personal ones are more useful because they capture decisions, questions, and follow-ups rather than a transcript. Writing down the shared assumptions that didn’t get said out loud is part of this, and [[Explaining the obvious]] in a note costs nothing while silence about context creates gaps that surface as confusion months later. A daily note works better than one note per meeting: every meeting becomes a heading, standard tags like Summary, Decision, Question, and Todo make search possible. [[Design Decision Log]] captures the bigger calls that need more than a bullet point.
[[Changelog as a consistent communication tool]] picks up where these personal notes end, when a decision needs to move outward rather than stay in your own system. [[Good meeting checklist]] is what keeps the meeting itself worth documenting: a meeting without a clear purpose produces notes that are equally unclear.