Basic Principles
- Have a clear objective for your meeting notes.
- Keep your notes concise without losing important information.
- Use tools like Toggl for time tracking, if needed. Don't spend time making notes ;)
- Atomise meetings to create lists of information, questions, and action items. Utilise hashtags to represent them, such as
#Question, #ToDo, #Idea, #Decision, #PeopleName, #ProjectName, and #MajorFeature.
- Convert recurring meetings into notes and link them. For example:
Project A Private or Broken Links
The page you're looking for is either not available or private!
, 1-1 with Person A Private or Broken Links
The page you're looking for is either not available or private!
- Use [Obsidian Periodic Notes ](https://github.com/liamcain/obsidian-periodic-notes or Logseq's Daily page for dumping daily notes, instead of one-note-per-meeting
By doing an efficient you can find any notes : For instance: #Idea Project A Private or Broken Links
will provide you with any Ideas related to Project A that you want to ask PersonC.
The page you're looking for is either not available or private!
, #Question #PersonC
File Example :
File : 10-Feb-2023.md
- 11:00, Meeting on Project A Private or Broken Links
The page you're looking for is either not available or private!
- #Info We are not building that feature in this sprint #PersonA
- #ToDo Update the figma, remove the feature
- #Question Are we updating the documentation?, to #PersonB
- #TIL, the date we shared with client is Q3, not Q2
- 13:00, 1:1 with Person A Private or Broken Links
The page you're looking for is either not available or private!
- #TODO Prepare next year hiring count and budget
- #Question Ask #PersonC, if we are hiring remote or to WFO
- #Idea, add a survey along with Project A Private or Broken Links
The page you're looking for is either not available or private!
My current method
- I use journal to make live meeting notes.
- Notes are then moved to my Obsidian daily logs.
- Notes are either
Decisions
orQuestions
. - Journal takes care of the To-Dos. (Same live meeting notes)
- For projects I use Changelog as a consistent communication toolChangelog as a consistent communication tool
Changelogs are a great way of effective communication. It provides a clear idea on what is done, and why it's done. Also, it communicates to the user about the value the new feature adds / problem ...
This is the cleaned-up version of my brainstorming session with Parvathi Mohan, Product at Kaleyra, discussing the use of Obsidian and Logseq for work and meeting documentation.