For every person I meet regularly, I create two Google Docs: a shared meeting doc, and a private “person log”. The meeting doc is shared with the person, and contains our agenda and relevant notes. The “person log” is a private document with the following structure: ``` About FIRST NAME * Things I want to be reminded of whenever we meet, e.g. important things happening in their life; their self-development goals; feedback they've given me. Inbox: * A place to drop in items that I might want to talk about at our next meeting. * The "triage" function this enables is probably the most valuable aspect of this system. 2020-10-17 Private notes related to a particular meeting... 2020-10-10 Private notes related to a particular meeting... ``` I keep both docs open during meetings. I keep the “person log” private, but it's not full of things I want to hide from the person I’m meeting—it’d be fine if the person read it. It’s just a place that is focussed on helping me make the most of our meetings (e.g. a “private triage” function helps decide things that may/may not be above bar to discuss). To make the docs easy to find, I title them with a prefix. The prefix means I can usually access docs from the browser address bar with 3-4 keystrokes. Imagine I’m meeting Elton John. My doc names would be: * ej-ph ph-ej: Elton John & Peter Hartree meetings * ej-log: Elton John log