Welcome to your system for
regular meeting notes
You're in lots of regular meetings, and you take notes and actions to keep track of what's going on week to week.
There's a bunch of general purpose tools these days that you use for this. They work, but they're meh, because they're built for a million different things, and meetings are just one of them.
When you're a professional doing something every day, you want a specialized tool, 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.
Docket gives you a simple editor with only what you need for taking notes in meetings. Bullet points, bold, tab indents. Simple enough to type with one hand and keep your notes tidy, with a few extra things like links and images so you can paste the odd screenshot.
If you're like me, your main use for meeting notes is tracking who said they would do what for next time. Docket notes have integrated actions to do this. Most general notes tools have checkboxes, but no system to track whether they get checked or not. With Docket every checkbox is an action that can be assigned to you, or anyone else in the meeting, then tracked later in one place so they never get forgotten.
Organizing your notes is also easy. Docket is built specfically for regular meetings, so you don't have to invent your own system. Start a doc for each meeting, share with collaborators. Create a new entry with one click. Create templates for those new entries, useful if your notes have the same structure every meeting (or if you'd like them to!).
Docket takes an opinionated approach to note taking in meetings. These days most general purpose note-taking tools center around a collaborative document editor. This is great for creating shared documents in general, but not optimal for meeting notes. It can be made to work with self-enforced rules for layouts and the like, but it's easy to tread on each others' toes with everyone typing at the same time, and it's often unclear who wrote what when you look back on the notes later.
Docket takes a different approach, optimized for meeting notes. Every collaborator gets their own section. Simple, old school, effective. It's immediately clear who wrote what both as notes are being typed, and when you read them back later. It gives you a clear intuitive layout that's just there, as standard, and can't be deviated from. A system that just works for you out the box, with no DIY or discipline required.
You don't need an account to get started, just start typing. Try it out!
Cheers, David
