What's your best way of taking minutes from meetings (formal or informal)?

groovygrl

I am taking a new position and want to be really organized from the get go...I tend to be someone who types out notes (I take notes on an ipad) from all meetings, large & small, to keep for my records & share with others to keep on task. I have always been an outline person, and under each major item I will have an action line of some sort stating who, what, by when and then I bold that line so it is easy to find the actions agreed upon.

I know some ppl do tables with various columns & the actions in the last column, which I like for reviewing the actions to be taken but I find it easier to outline discussions/ideas/content in an outline form than table....

Oh organized ones, how do you approach things like this & what format do you prefer? Thanks!

DallasLonghorn97

I second One Note. Think of it exactly like a spril notebook with tabs. You can create "tabs" and pages within those tabs. I love it and even use for personal notes.

groovygrl

THanks...I use evernote & was talking to my IT person about Onenote & she was telling me she preferred endnote but I have been meaning to check out one note.

Does it format your notes automatically somehow? My question was more about how do you format- table, outline, use special headings, some kind of unique template or organization method, etc?

ETA I just went to microsoft templates & they have some interesting templates...hmmm