ADHD Tool Tip: Use a Meeting Notebook

So many of my coaching clients work in roles and industries that require them to attend frequent meetings inside and outside of their departments and teams. Several have shared with me that having a dedicated meeting notebook with prompts has enabled them to walk away from meetings sure that they recorded the key information they need to effectively follow through with action items.

As stated throughout this ADHD tools series, products I’m sharing are only recommendations based on the experience of my clients and myself. There is no one tool that works for everyone. That said, there are so many ADHD tools and products to choose from, I recognize that it does help to have the choices narrowed down.

This Lemare Meeting Notebook for Work Organization is my recommendation for keeping up with work meetings, because working memory challenges and overwhelm posed by ADHD can interfere with recalling key points and assigned tasks after the meeting wraps. The spiral binding lets the pages lie flat and the two-page spread provides lots of room for pre-thinking about an upcoming meeting, writing notes during the meeting, and doodling (for those who doodle to concentrate).

I like that this notebook has prompts for

the meeting objective, the key discussion points, the action items with due dates, and the date and time of the next meeting. There’s a separate page for writing down other details. Pages for creating an index are located at the front of the notebook for easy meeting look-up. And, yes, there are apps for this, but don’t underestimate the power of handwriting information to support working memory and promote recall.

If you’d like to experiment with this meeting notebook, click on the highlighted text or on either of the images to purchase it from Amazon. As an Amazon Associate, I earn from qualified purchases.