On Thu, 31 Oct 2019 at 14:04, Christian Egli <christian.e...@sbs.ch> wrote: > Hi all > > I'd like to revisit a very old thread[1] where Adam Spiers asks if there > is support in Org mode for > > 1. Allow *fast* production of meeting agendas and minutes, exportable in > a good-looking legible format which non-org readers can digest. > > 2. Allow minutes to be taken as the meeting progresses, minimising the > amount of work required after the meeting. > > 3. Allow actions to be captured and then automatically extracted into a > simple tabulated report which clearly shows actions grouped by owner. > > 4. Track progress of actions *after* the minutes have been issued.
Wow, this makes me feel old! ;-) Sorry for chiming in late - only just noticed this thread. > He goes on to say that org mode handles (1) and (2) just fine, but he > wasn't sure about (3) and (4). > > His mail is from 2008 and a lot has happened in the mean time. I would > suggest that today (1) and (2) can be handled with normal org export or > even pandoc. Inline tasks[2] help a lot to add, well inline tasks. For (3) > and (4) he mentions a dynamic block that could collect all action items. > > I never found that dynamic block he mentions, so I hacked one up (which > was suprisingly easy). I haven't packaged it but the gist of it is > below: [snip] I have no doubt that your modern solution is much better than my ancient hack, but just for the record, the latter can be found here: https://github.com/aspiers/emacs/blob/master/.emacs.d/init.d/as-gtd.el#L79-L117 Thanks a lot for re-raising this and subsequently writing a very nice blog post about it too! Cheers, Adam P.S. I recently discovered an exceptionally good service to aid with capturing information from meetings: https://otter.ai/ Sadly it is proprietary, and the speech recognition is sophisticated enough that I doubt that any FLOSS alternative will appear any time soon :-(
