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You say meeting minutes made useful but the header on the website is "Succinct Team Messaging." I actually didn't see anything that looked like meeting minutes presented anywhere.

Was hoping this would take minutes from Word as 95% of secretaries will use, somehow extract action items, and then help communicate/track them.

Everything shown here I would just use email to manange. It's not outdated, it works and it's an LCD. I run a small nonprofit organization and was hoping this might be helpful because action item followup is a pain point. But I wouldn't use this.

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Agreed. The demo is a top-down management wet dream. A meeting where people get instructed in details to do specific tasks? No deadline, no ambiguity? Those guys never attended a meeting.

UX wise, I'm not ok with the "red/orange/green" codes and "fail/done" tags. Even for a small startup, communication is not that blunt, for a reason. Red in the demo seems to stand for postponed, canceled, rejected or badly executed. Yet "red" means bad in most cultural contexts. The color code implies too much and would really harm any group using such a basic code.

Hi pi-err, you make really good points.

Also, if every team member could assign tasks, send requests and questions using this syntax, would that change your perception of this being a top-down management tool? Because our intention is to build a tool that allows a more horizontal communication among team members - but that's more difficult to visualize in a single video.

We are also aware of the cultural-contextual association of colours. This is one thing we are actually struggling with. While colors are a very easy and effective way to communicate status of tasks, especially to give a quick overview of many tasks - they have severe limitations, just like you say, red evoking associations with something as being "bad".

Deadlines are on our roadmap. What do you mean by "no ambiguity"?

Hey ams6110, we are midst iterating on the key messages we should use on the landing page - hence the difference.

The video is supposed to show a use case of writing meeting minutes. Of course, making text legible within a video has some limits. But still, reading your (and others') comments make me learn that the video has became way too abstract and simplified.

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