As someone who once volunteered to keep meeting minutes I led, as well as meetings for which I keep time: the minutes are where a group articulates what it understands about itself. But of course: what's unsaid (sometimes unwritten) and meant for interpretation is where the actual meaning lies.
Tressie McMillan CottomI like this notetaking example. it is a good case of how gender works. Notetaking has never been about producing a transcript. It is a bureaucratic skill in the 20th c. organixarion because it is SENSEMAKING. Those women socialized to take notes? They have been doing men’s metacognition for them