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Practical notes for better meetings

Ideas, playbooks, and methods for turning conversations into clear work.

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workflows

Setting Ground Rules for Team Meeting Recordings: Consent, Visibility, and Retention—Three Are Plenty

Three rules keep meeting recordings from becoming a trust liability: explicit consent announced at the start, visibility limited to attendees, and a 30-day retention default. Packed into a one-page team brief, reviewed quarterly.

CoHear Team · 6 min read

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workflows

Running a Meeting That Doesn't Waste Time: 10 Minutes Before, Just Three Things

Before every meeting, spend ten minutes on three things: lock down a one-sentence outcome, pre-load the materials, and review last week's action items. A three-line agenda keeps a room from scrambling for context and turns every call into the next episode of a serialized story.

CoHear Team · 6 min read

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Don’t Score Interviews on Gut Feeling Alone: Turn Consented Recordings into Auditable Evaluation Notes

Score interviews on evidence, not vibes: with consent, keep a recording, then log verbatim quotes, grounded concerns, and mapping to three core competencies in fifteen minutes.

CoHear Team · 5 min read

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workflows

Time Zones Aren’t an Excuse: A Practical Guide to Voice Notes and Recordings for Remote Teams

Time zones stop being an excuse when every key discussion leaves an artifact: voice notes with three points, a recording plus one-page recap, and spoken-first drafting for written work.

CoHear Team · 5 min read

product

Support Calls Hold Your Product’s Most Honest Feedback: How to Turn Call Recordings into 3 Types of Product Signals

Support calls are your most honest feedback channel. Turn recorded calls into three product signals—product gaps, docs gaps, and escalation patterns—with a 15-minute weekly review.

CoHear Team · 7 min read

sales

The 10 Minutes Before Hanging Up: Turning Sales Recordings into Verbatim Quotes and Real Next Steps

The ten minutes right after you hang up decide the next deal: pull three verbatim quotes, flag the signal you missed, and define one next step with a date and a trigger.

CoHear Team · 6 min read

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workflows

It’s Okay If English Isn’t Your First Language: Record Every Meeting and Let AI Help You Review Your Past Self

If English is not your first language, record your meetings and run a three-step review: find what you missed, hear how you show up, and prep three sentences before the next call.

CoHear Team · 7 min read

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ai-tools

GPT-6 Astra Doesn’t “Listen”: Why Recording Is Still the First Mile of AI Work

GPT-6 Astra is powerful, but its audio modality is Not supported. That makes the first mile of AI work more important, not less: capture, transcribe, structure — then let the model process.

CoHear Team · 7 min read

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product-research

Don’t Let Customer Interviews End at “Nice Chat”: 3 Steps to Turn Recordings Into Product Decisions

Interviews that end at “nice chat” change nothing. Record the call, then run a three-step distillation — transcribe, sort into observation/problem/opportunity, cross-check and archive — so quotes become decisions.

CoHear Team · 6 min read

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ai-tools

Skip the Demo Hype: Take an AI Meeting Assistant to Your Worst Meeting and Test These 5 Failure Points

Demos are polished; your real meetings are not. Run an AI meeting assistant through the meeting you dread most and check five failure points before you pay.

CoHear Team · 7 min read

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workflows

Friday 5:40: My Weekly Report Used to Be Four Empty Words — Here’s What Changed

“Steady progress” says nothing. Park three things into a daily note — what got done, what got stuck, where things live — and let AI draft a weekly report your manager can actually act on.

CoHear Team · 5 min read

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Don’t Send Those AI Meeting Notes Yet: Four Piles, Three Gates, and Every Decision Gets an Owner

AI meeting notes look polished — and that is exactly the risk. Before you forward them, sort the discussion into decisions, actions, and open questions, then make sure every decision has an owner.

CoHear Team · 4 min read