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Meeting Suite

Agendas, next steps, calendar invites, reminders and the follow-up email, from a few keystrokes.

The same meeting cycles run twice, side by side: one track leans further off plumb at every cycle, the other never moves A line drawing. Two vertical tracks run the same meeting cycles side by side, stacked bottom to top, with an open gutter of text between them. On the left, each cycle is a scatter of small loose sheets, each turned a little, each finely hatched. Each band of sheets leans a little further off vertical than the band below it, and the lowest band never moves. On the right, each cycle is a single plumb rectangle with three short rules inside it. At the bottom of the right track is one short, heavy rectangle, the darkest mark in the frame. From its top edge, thin leaders run straight up to each rectangle above it, each entering at a slightly different point. Nothing runs from one cycle to the next.

Things that aren’t unreasonable, any one of them.

The agenda in one place and the next steps in another.

You’re constantly checking notes and resources.

It’s also following up after. It’s just a lot of action.

They show up to the next meeting more prepared than they ever have.

A little bit of front-end processing, a little bit of back-end reviewing.

All the important work, none of the hassle.

A tracker where all the next steps live.

The same meeting cycles run twice, side by side: one track leans further off plumb at every cycle, the other never moves A line drawing, two narrow tracks side by side. On the left, each cycle is a scatter of small loose sheets, each turned a little, each finely hatched, and each band of sheets leans a little further off vertical than the band below it; the lowest band never moves. On the right, each cycle is a single plumb rectangle with three short rules inside it. At the bottom of the right track is one short, heavy rectangle, the darkest mark in the frame, and thin leaders run straight up from its top edge to each rectangle above it. Nothing runs from one cycle to the next. The words are listed beneath the drawing.

  • Things that aren’t unreasonable, any one of them.

  • The agenda in one place and the next steps in another.

  • You’re constantly checking notes and resources.

  • It’s also following up after. It’s just a lot of action.

  • They show up to the next meeting more prepared than they ever have.

  • A little bit of front-end processing, a little bit of back-end reviewing.

  • All the important work, none of the hassle.

  • A tracker where all the next steps live.

Meeting Suite. The same four weeks run twice. In one, every meeting leaves its pieces where they fell. In the other, every agenda reads off one store.