Milestone 2.5
C. Meeting Notes
1-People take notes during meetings for a variety of reasons and mostly by hand.27% of respondents said they review notes after meetings to help them in their work. 24% said they write down questions and comments so they can ask them during meetings. 22% write down notes to stay engaged; and 20% write down notes to summarize points of others and provide context for a question or comment that they have. About two-thirds of respondents take notes by hand during meetings and a third take notes electronically.
2-People want to review others’ notes after meetings they attend and meetings they miss. 67% of respondents have wanted to review others’ notes after a meeting they attended and 88% have wanted to review others’ notes after a meeting they did not attend.
3-In terms of notesharing, people feel that notes are personal but some are curious to know what others write. In a free response question on notesharing, 6 out of 9 respondents indicated that notes are individual or private in describing why don’t think notes should be shared. Another issue at play is curiosity around wanting to know what others are writing. This will need to be considered responsibly.
4-The biggest challenge to understanding notes that another person has shared with you is context. This quote is indicative of comments that people made on a free response question about challenges to understanding notes: It is difficult “because priorities, context and notetaking styles vary” across notetakers.
Another challenge is handwriting.
*Design Ideas-Meeting Notesharing
Create software that lets people share their notes centrally. Users would have the option to make portions of their notes private as desired.
*Design Ideas-Context for Notes
Create software that allows people to easily add context to notes. This context can take the form of tags of keywords or links to related projects and ideas.
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