AI note-takers are everywhere, but I still type my own meeting notes. Here's the value it brings to me, my team, and my project.

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Despite widespread AI note-taking tools, one developer argues for manually typing meeting notes after 14 months and 77,000+ words of notes on a client project. The key benefits: staying present and focused during meetings, providing teammates with concise, team-specific action items (rather than verbose AI-generated summaries), and capturing technical context that AI tools like Gemini lack — such as codebase knowledge, team member context, and nuanced bug root causes. The author marks starred items for teammates to quickly scan, making the notes more actionable than AI transcripts.

Why I Still Take My Own Meeting Notes in the Age of AI

<p>I feel completely aligned with this perspective. For the time being, AI is not able to replace our capacity to gather and analyse the information with the full knowledge of the context and the purpose we have. And even if it is, I also need writing to stay focused and “map” the information in my mind. And this, no external tool can replace it!</p>
