Personally, I try to use the Cornell note taking method [0], just with every meeting being a 'class'.

In practice, I list the name of the 'activity' (a meeting, a work session, some forms filing, etc), the people at the activity, and then note whatever it is that needs notes to be taken. To be clear, I'm not taking minutes in a meeting, just more like action items for myself, and anything really important that came up.

Like I said, it's not 'hard' stuff or very complicated, I may only have like two bullet points for an hour meeting sometimes. The habit is what matters.

[0] http://lsc.cornell.edu/study-skills/cornell-note-taking-syst...