You're in a ton of regular meetings, and you want to take notes and actions to keep track of what's going on in them week to week.

There's a bunch of general purpose tools you can use these days to take meeting notes. They work, but they're meh, because they're designed for a million different things, and they don't give you a system.

When you're a professional doing something every day, you want a tool and a system specialised for the job, not something merely good enough.

That was me, in meetings for years. So I decided to build Docket to be my tool. It could be yours too.

It gives you a simple editor with just the formatting you need. Stuff like bullet points, tab indents and bold. Just enough that you can type quickly and with one hand and still keep your notes tidy. It also lets you paste images, useful for the odd screenshot.

If you're like me, one of main things you're doing in meeting notes is tracking who said they would do what for next time. Docket gives you first class actions to do this. Most general tools don't focus on this, they do have things like checkboxes but leave it to you to track whether they get checked or not. With Docket every checkbox is an action. They can be assigned to collaborators, or yourself, and they can all be tracked in one place so they never get forgotten.

Organising your notes is also easy. Because Docket is built for regular meeting notes, it just works out the box. You don't have to invent your own system. You simply start a doc for each meeting, and share with collaborators. Create a new entry for each meeting in a single click. It gets an automatic date and time. Create templates for new entries, if your notes follow the same structure every meeting (and if they don't, well now they easily can!).

Docket takes an opinionated approach to the note taking experience itself. These days most general purpose tools you'll use for notes are based around a collaborative document editor. This is a great experience for creating shared documents etc, but suboptimal for meeting notes. It can be made to work, but without self-enforced discipline around in-document layouts and the like, it's unclear who wrote what, and it's easy to tread on each others' toes when everyone types at the same time.

Docket takes a different approach. In Docket, every collaborator gets their own section. Simple, old school, effective. It's immediately clear who wrote what both in real time, and also when you read the notes back later. Moreover it gives you that in a clear intuitive layout that's just there, as standard, and can't be deviated from. Again, it's a system that just works for you out the box. No DIY required.

You don't even need an account to get started, just start typing.

Try it out and see!

Cheers, David

[email protected]

(me typing with one hand
in a meeting)