Comments on: Taking minutes of a meeting on a laptop computer

By: ouractionlist

ouractionlist — Tue, 28 Feb 2012 09:43:34 +0000

we advise to fill in the action list together and fill in during the meeting. Say iPad is ideal and at the end of the meeting you can open the action list on your pc and go through it.
And if one person takes notes avoids everyone playing around

By: Meeting Software

Meeting Software — Mon, 13 Feb 2012 11:12:26 +0000

I always late to come my meetings but your post is too good.

By: Rick

Rick — Wed, 06 Jul 2011 20:25:31 +0000

As an IT professional, I actually disagree with the idea of laptops at meetings for any reason. A paper and pen won’t crash and are far less intrusive to the flow of a meeting than a person hunched behind the screen of a notebook tapping at the keys and trying to pay attention at the same time.

By: Harry Waisbren

Harry Waisbren — Sat, 24 Apr 2010 05:34:50 +0000

I can very easily imagine that, in this day and age, 70% of minute takers do take their minutes directly onto a laptop, “and would never go back to handwriting.” A meeting’s historical record can be so important, and a laptop helps in so many different ways, that purism just can not suffice as a rationale.

However, I find it particularly telling that the trick to taking minutes is “to prepare in advance.” This manifests itself in so many different ways, yet larger than examples like using the agenda to set up your format (much less bringing a laptop in the first place), the key I see is to take the craft of minute-taking seriously enough to achieve the full extent of its value.

Check out my review of the book “Taking Minutes of Meetings” for a discussion of why, and how, this craft can be so valuable:
http://www.qworky.com/blog/2010/04/qworky-review-taking-minutes-of-meetings/