This post is the first of a series from the team at Witful, so stay tuned! Witful was built to make workdays easier. And we’ve found that it’s particularly useful for managers and leaders who meet continuously with their teams in groups and individually. As current and former managers, and universally as those who have …
Thoughts from the Team: Why are 1:1s so important? Read More »
When I first became a manager, I spent all my time feeling like I didn’t know what I was doing, wasn’t qualified to make high-level decisions, and basically shouldn’t “order around” the people who only a month or two ago had been peers. When seeking reassurance from my own superiors and mentors, the general feedback …
My days can be fragmented. Here are some of my strategies for staying organized and productive while moving from one meeting to the next.
I’ve always been a fairly diligent note taker in meetings. Taking notes helps me track the conversation and any resulting action items, retain information, and act as a journal for my day—a way to easily look back at past meetings and discussions in order to jog my memory or pull out a specific piece of …
We’re not building a generic notes app. We’re also not building an app for everyone. We are building a product that reduces the cognitive load for people with lots of meetings. Something that enables people with lots of context switching to ensure they don’t miss follow-ups. Something that makes relevant information immediately accessible. We care …
How we built an app to fix our own meeting fatigue Read More »
Your short term memory is bad. So is mine. This is why we take notes, but our note taking systems have a critical flaw. Let me try to explain the problem and offer a solution. My work entails a lot of meetings with people, and I care about remembering what we talk about. So I …
Since day one, we’ve aimed for Witful to be fast, clean, and simple. These continue to be our guiding principles — allowing us to deliver a lightweight tool that keeps your busy day flowing smoothly. As an engineer at Witful who’s helped evolve the product from its days as a prototype, I continuously wrangle with …
I’ve worked as a software engineer, manager, consultant, and business owner. All of these jobs have involved meetings. What those meetings look like has varied greatly. As an engineer, meetings typically entailed technical conversations with peers, one-on-ones with managers, and planning meetings or demos with stakeholders. As a manager, these looked more like quarterly goal-setting …
