[HN Gopher] Meeting notes lose value the moment you finish writi...
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       Meeting notes lose value the moment you finish writing them
        
       Author : mayashaff
       Score  : 17 points
       Date   : 2022-06-16 16:54 UTC (6 hours ago)
        
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       | gamblor956 wrote:
       | Only if you take bad notes...
       | 
       | As with most things, if you think that something that lots of
       | other people are doing is a waste of time, the problem is
       | probably with how you're doing it and not with the activity
       | itself.
       | 
       | (Note that the author recognizes he was taking notes the wrong
       | way for his needs, and adopted a new way of taking meeting
       | notes.)
        
         | remram wrote:
         | The author admitted that but still kept the wrong conclusion
         | for a click-bait title and to sell whatever this Witful product
         | is. This moves it from "wrong" territory into "dishonest" IMHO.
        
           | gamblor956 wrote:
           | Agreed, on the other hand, that's also how Basecamp got its
           | start.
        
       | thenerdhead wrote:
       | I feel like this article lacks the sincerity of the problem. Is
       | this really as big of a problem as the blog mentions to the point
       | of building an app around?
       | 
       | I don't know, but I'll stick with email/messaging apps and
       | mentioning people. Also keeping a copy of High Output Management
       | handy to make sure I'm using meetings appropriately.
       | 
       | Aside: The title is super click baity. There's value in
       | publishing your notes somewhere like email so they are indexed
       | for remembering them later. My brain won't remember what happened
       | in a meeting but will remember we had a meeting.
        
       | sandreas wrote:
       | Mmh, that's not my experience. My personal collection of advice
       | for meetings [1] contains GOALs to be achieved with meetings - so
       | there have to be notes beforehand and afterwards... I'm pretty
       | happy with this practise.
       | 
       | [1] https://pilabor.com/blog/2021/04/tips-and-tricks-for-
       | meeting...
        
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