Simple Way to Take Meeting Notes at Work. Take Smarter Notes!

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When you walk out of meetings at work, do you feel that you want to take smarter notes. Maybe you want a simple way to take meeting notes. And because you don't have that, you ask your colleagues for their meeting notes to know what was discussed or what you have to do.

The thing with meeting notes is that we're never taught how to actually take them. As a result, most of us end up writing everything together in one big block on a A4 page. Meeting notes like that don't help you understand what was discussed, what questions were asked, or what action items you're responsible for.

So in this video, I explain a simple way for you to take meeting notes at work. It's based on a quadrant and clearly separates everything that was discussed. I start by explaining the process, then I share an example so you can see how it's used.

Watch this video then let me know in the comments if this method works for you. I'd love to hear that!

Timestamps:
00:00 Simple meeting notes for work
00:37 Handwritten or digital meeting notes
02:28 How to take meeting notes for work
03:10 General notes
03:46 Questions and contributions
04:57 Decisions made
05:33 Action items
06:02 Example of smart meeting notes

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There are so many videos on how to take business meeting notes, but your method is simple, and your video is very instructive. I appreciate your sharing.

Proximian
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This is probably your monetizing opportunity to come up with a notebook with this template on. This is a great one. I’ve been looking for a good note. Love this one.

padmabharani
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This video is absolutely instructive! Thanks Kara!

antoniotarantini
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Love this, great video. Can you do a part 2 video of best practices on "How to organize meeting notes, organize projects, tasks, follow ups, just overall workflow”, thanks!

davidconners
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I've been struggling to take notes always but this method has given me an organised approach.

Thanks

dilliwa
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Thank you Kara Ronin, A best way to notized meetings proceedings.

fazalhayat
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I was pondering ways to enhance my note-taking and stumbled upon this video. I appreciate you sharing this valuable insight.

BeCuriousPodcast
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Really appreciate this method much appreciated thank Kara

karimghezal
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Great video! Thanks for the helpful tips!

maribelorozco-sandoval
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Thank you so much for the valuable video!This is one of my problems, take notes. As you said some people talk fast. When that happens I obtain some information but not all.

elenaguerra
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I've tried several ways over the years to try and improve my note taking in meetings and must have watched many videos recently to try and finally get it sorted. Most seem to recommend the quadrant method as in your video and I have started to adopt this and it's working. I'm fine tuning a few things and I may take your advice on the lower left quarter being the "decisions made" as this makes more sense than some of the other guides which seem to split the bottom two into "actions for me" and "actions for others". I'm assuming that you would also record "actions for others" in the lower right if you were the host of the meeting. You don't mention it in the video but is this the correct assumption? Great tips by the way, thanks for sharing.

MartynDews
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First thanks for giving this video about ->How to take meeting notes?
This may work for small meetings and we may record it in detail during the discussion is ongoing.
However, taking detailed notes during ongoing meetings is not feasible in real situations.

Please upload the video if there is any standard way of taking short notes during meeting and later by using short notes to elaborate the meeting minutes.

SN-zrrf
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I think the template you've proposed makes sense and includes nearly everything i use. One thing that i do additionally is have a list of invitees to the meeting. I also have a list of attendees as you have. I put both next to eachother. This helps me to understand who was invited, but didn't make the meeting. I may or may not need to connect with who didnt attend after the meeting to share my notes or convey any action items assigned to them during the meeting.

I often take my notes by writing them out. I frequently add them into OneNote after the fact. This makes them searchable.

CalicoCooperFan
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Great! I will not wonder anymore what to take note during the meeting. I'm person in a meeting who doesn't take note anything hahaha, and whenever there's a new question to me, I'll just ask someone who knows better the answer to that question.

starterdev
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Another disadvantage of handwritten notes is you may not be able to read them if you have bad handwriting. I have this problem.

pelsismichaelbridge
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I find that this template only works with a pair of pages open. The quadrants tie you down. I usually flow out of one quadrant and 'invade' another.

I'd suggest one uses a two pages or use horizontal divisions and flip the page for any overflow detail. The system also seems to not accommodate tracking of another parties' tasks (Actions...not 'action items') and any follow-ups.

dagwould
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Do you know of a spiral notebook that has this template pre-printed?

louisb
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2:13 ...and the tapping of the keyboard can be off pointing for the meeting members!

walboyfredo