Taking notes....

So on the new job I have to meet with MANY different groups and people in the development of a software solution. I've never seemed to have found a good way to take notes during these sessions. Usually the person starts off going in order, but often gets side tracked, or I have something that I need to do but it's somewhere in the page and I have to look for it. This morning I was listening to MacBreak Weekly and Merlin Mann mentioned a way to take notes developed by Cornell University. I found an explanation and sample here.