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And then people doesn't understand why companies are so inneficient! Most engineers these days are slaved to work that should be done by specialized secretarial staff.

I'd like to think that at some point in time meeting minutes are going to be completely automated.

Not possible. Meeting minutes are far more than who said what. You need to fully understand the people and issues.

A pharmaceutical formulation lab needs to know which documents have been authorized, so I’m assuming that this is still a thing, with or without a secretarial pool.

We also all had day books with numbered pages for all working notes. Signed and dated daily, and when filled, archived.