A Different Approach to Note Taking
In most of the meetings I attend at work, I scribble down notes linearly and walk out of the meeting with a to-do list of actionable items. One of the difficult things to do post-meeting for me, though, is to reconstruct the flow of the meeting and the origins of particular ideas.
Enter Mind Mapping.
The basic gist is to write the purpose of the meeting as a bubble in the center of a page. Agenda items branch off of the central bubble and are connected by lines. Sub-topics branch off of those. This fits in well with the associative memory patterns our minds are comfortable with. Any “off-topic” subject that is brought up is recorded as an unattached “floating” bubble.
Give it a shot and let us know if it works out for you.
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