(1): Taking notes in PowerPoint is sensible if you want an entire conference room to be able to read the notes, as they are being taken, from their seats, and without any fuss about font sizes and so on.
(2): Additionally, since the final "product" will be a PPT, having the notes already in a PPT file means you get to skip some copy/paste steps.
It's still a bit silly and a bit of a cargo cult in the online-first world, but I get how it happens.
> Not OneNote, not Word, not even freakin' Notepad.
Hey, I'll take PPT brain damage over the even worse brain damage that causes some orgs to do everything in a buggy ass Salesforce version of google docs... give me MBA brain-rot bullet points over MBA brain-rot fancy versions of five paragraph essays any god damn day...
I'm not a fan of powerpoint presentations in any form; I find the medium uninteresting and more of a progress meter for the current meeting than anything else, but even that hasn't been reliable for a long time to know how long a presentation will go, but I don't think using powerpoint in one of the many ways it can be used is anything bad; I'd rather that such hypothetical execs have someone put the notes into powerpoint than write it down on a paper notepad. At the end of the day, all I really care about is that I can read the notes if required and I can quickly access the data without having to bug someone after the initial permissions are set.
(all this being said, I cannot express how frustrating Microsoft Office and Google Office are to me; barring powerpoints where I have no choice but to build it in one of these office suites, I usually just write plain text with markdown formatting and only use office suites to apply the necessary formatting, using the markdown as a reference; I would enjoy word/docs a lot more if there was button to "convert markdown to word formatting", and vice versa)
For a few schedule things that needed more management than just a shared calendar, I wrote a script to pull the schedule out of Outlook and convert it to an HTML schedule sheet which I can just copy/paste right into Teams with perfect formatting (I send it via a bot, but it works for users to just paste into the doc also)
But at another place a dept head started to go blind and could no longer easily read slides. So we were all encouraged to make verbal presentations of key points. It was actually really educational, and a really powerful learning experience.
Still seems terrible to me, but not everybody is the same. Thanks!
As a note taking tool it offers alignment and other things that OneNote doesn't. In exchange, OneNote offers a lot of things I don't give a damn about.
They always have a browser and being able to make requests by default with your credentials is very helpful.
They're both awesome apps(Although PowerPoint is easy to misuse for extreme time wasting watching someone just literally read slides), so they might have a reason.
I use Keep, but generally when someone has a nonsensical seeming process involving commercial GUI software it usually works fine. Kinda clunky but easier than no tech, more reliable than any custom made solution, and sometimes the other off the shelf alternatives have downsides.
Maybe the meeting is being structured by a PowerPoint, and they want to take notes in the same format so that each slide in the notes corresponds to a slide in the meeting presentation or something.
PowerPoint is a fairly decent mainstream app for taking notes. It lets you draw diagrams, which for the right class is indispensable. Visio is great at diagramming, but less good for taking notes. Docs/Word, to draw new diagrams around text that often gains new content as the lecture goes on, is terrible for this. If the professor shows a picture, and then just talks about it, that would be fine, but usually, the professor draws a few shapes, then talks some, then draws in arrows and more text. Having to got in and out of drawing mode, is so much worse.