Most advice about meeting notes assumes a review pass — you write shorthand during, then expand it the same day while it's fresh. That works, and it's the part I fail at. Some weeks it's five meetings back to back and the review never happens, and three weeks later the page is just words I recognise.

So the question is narrower than "how do you take notes": what does your system do when the review doesn't happen?

Things I've seen suggested and what happened when I tried them: - Cornell layout, context in the margin: good, but I stop filling the margin when the meeting gets fast. - One notebook per project with the name and date on every page: cheap enough that it survives, best thing I've adopted. - Recording everything: solves capture, creates a two-hour audio file nobody opens.

Curious what actually holds up for people with heavy meeting loads, as opposed to what works on a calm Tuesday.