Meetings

A meeting gets prepared, gets held, then gets lost. The agenda sleeps in an email, the decisions in somebody's notes, and six months later nobody knows who settled what.

An agenda prepares the meeting to come: its objectives, its topics with their duration and their speaker, the action items to discuss. A report tells the meeting held: the topics covered, the decisions with the person who made them, attendance, and the verbatim. Both attach to the same calendar event and the same project, with no re-entry.

⚠️ Follow-up works by exception: a meeting is presumed to deserve an agenda and a report, and the list shows step by step where each one stands. That is the opposite of the usual reflex, which shows only what was done and leaves the rest invisible.

Open tasks on the project can invite themselves to the next meeting. Decisions are filed into the knowledge matrices, where people will look for them. The report comes out as a PDF in your image, ready to send.

Audio capture and transcription go through a processor you host, not through a third-party service.

Comparable to Otter.ai + Fellow.app, integrated

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Meeting timerKnow what time the meeting will actually end, while there is still time to do something about it.

An agenda already carries its topics and the minutes allotted to each. Nobody knows where those minutes go: the plan is built to fill the calendar slot, and the report never says the first topic ate half of it.

The panel sits above the notebook on the agenda and stays in view while notes are being typed. It shows the projected end against the planned end, the running delta, what the topic just closed cost, and what is still allotted to the ones not yet covered.

A topic picked up again later sums its visits, one born mid-meeting is timed like the others, and a topic nobody had time for says so. At the end, the real time of each topic stays on the agenda and the report prints it.

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