interatx

Starting a new job soon where the primary project involves transferring big blobs and a lot of tiny ones across the world as fast as possible. Would love to read some books and catch up on the nuances. Are there any books that HN can recommend me?

I am at that stage of my career where I'm constantly in meetings or holding discussions. I need to get better at taking digital notes but cannot find a good resource that's easy to ramp-up on. I find it hard to concentrate and type at the same time. Here are the situations that are particularly difficult for me :

* Doing a one-on-one with someone

* Summarizing a meeting / discussion that I am leading

* Notes around new things I discovered online or offline (through hallway conversations)

* Anything that was given to me in paper form few mins before the meeting

Some annoyances:

* Not all software is approved for usage

* Anything with online sync (outside of the company) is a no-go

* Paper-based notes aren't searchable (esp if you're looking back few years)

* Currently on a simple `.txt` file setup that I brain-dump once a day for 15 mins