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 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!)