Ask HN: System to capture personal notes on meetings and project progress

2 pointsTakizawamura1 comment

Does anyone have a system or software that they can suggest to track meetings & project progress? These would be for my personal notes.

Currently, I track progress in an Excel sheet with a row covering details of each meeting. Separately I have a weekly log to track the trajectory of and thoughts on each project.

I'm looking for a system that is both simple and efficient.

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I end up taking notes in a text file daily, with un-resolved or in-progress items at the bottom. They get pushed downward linearly until they are finished, at which point they get immortalized in the greppable daily log that gets deposited above my "working area" somewhere toward the tail of the file. Requires a lot of discipline and doesn't have a lot of structure, but having the "working area" next to the journal has served me well. I use vimwiki[1] for most of the editing, in addition to custom scripts written using pandoc[2] for things like billing/reporting.

The biggest help has been having custom constructs such as "```timekeeping" blocks to contain time logs, and also having a "clean-out" ritual where I archive things once in a while.

[1]: https://vimwiki.github.io/

[2]: https://pandoc.org/

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