I’ve started carrying around a small, thin notebook in my back pocket. It’s been very nice as a memory aid. Very useful to capture simple things like shopping list items or phone numbers or general reference information that I know I will need to use in the future.
I am always intensely skeptical of people who don’t bring notebooks to meetings. Sometimes I’m the only one present with a notebook. What, you think you’re going to just remember the twenty details and action items that were agreed on?
I am always intensely skeptical of people who don’t bring notebooks to meetings. Sometimes I’m the only one present with a notebook. What, you think you’re going to just remember the twenty details and action items that were agreed on?
I generally don’t bring a notebook to meetings when I expect a decent quality note-taker. I find that taking notes while listening often distracts from my ability to generate novel thoughts, especially if I’m spending more than half the time just taking notes. (And as I don’t write particularly fast, this tends to happen unless I stick only to writing down a very small fraction of interesting conversations!)
I’m jealous you’re going to such high-quality meetings! I’d expect tho, that if I was attending meetings that generated actual details and action items, that someone would be (explicitly) responsible to email everyone in the meeting afterwords with all of the details and action items.
I’ve started carrying around a small, thin notebook in my back pocket. It’s been very nice as a memory aid. Very useful to capture simple things like shopping list items or phone numbers or general reference information that I know I will need to use in the future.
I am always intensely skeptical of people who don’t bring notebooks to meetings. Sometimes I’m the only one present with a notebook. What, you think you’re going to just remember the twenty details and action items that were agreed on?
I generally don’t bring a notebook to meetings when I expect a decent quality note-taker. I find that taking notes while listening often distracts from my ability to generate novel thoughts, especially if I’m spending more than half the time just taking notes. (And as I don’t write particularly fast, this tends to happen unless I stick only to writing down a very small fraction of interesting conversations!)
I’m jealous you’re going to such high-quality meetings! I’d expect tho, that if I was attending meetings that generated actual details and action items, that someone would be (explicitly) responsible to email everyone in the meeting afterwords with all of the details and action items.