Stephen Turner
Akash Kumar
Jordan Lee
Taylor Scott
Catch up on a missed meeting in 15 minutes
You don't need to watch the whole recording to catch up on a meeting you missed. Read the decisions, find anything assigned to you, check the moments that matter in the transcript, then confirm with one person who was there.
The job: know what changed and what you owe
Catching up has two goals. Learn what was decided that affects your work, and find out whether anything was assigned to you. Everything else is optional.
Rewatching an hour-long call rarely serves either goal. A short routine over the notes and transcript does, and it ends with a check so you don't act on a misreading.
A 15-minute catch-up routine
| Minutes | Step | What you should have at the end |
|---|---|---|
| 0–3 | Read the summary and the decisions | The two or three outcomes that change your plans |
| 3–6 | Scan action items for your name or your team | A list of what you owe, with dates |
| 6–11 | Read the transcript around each decision that affects you | The reasons, objections and caveats behind it |
| 11–13 | Ask two or three specific questions | Answers to the gaps the notes left |
| 13–15 | Confirm with one person who attended | A yes, or a correction, before you act |
Ask narrow questions
Broad questions get you a second summary. Narrow ones get you what the summary left out.
- "Was anything assigned to me or the design team?"
- "What did Priya say about the launch date, and did anyone disagree?"
- "Was the budget question decided, or moved to next week?"
- "What was I mentioned in connection with?"
Confirm before you act
Notes and transcripts can miss tone, side conversations and anything said before the recording started. Before you act on a decision, send one short message to someone who was there.
For example: "I caught up on Tuesday's planning call. I have the API review as mine, due the 30th, and the launch moved to March. Is that right?" One reply settles it.
If you're sharing notes with someone who missed it
Help the person catching up by sending notes, not just a recording link. Add one line on top saying what matters to them.
- Name the decision that affects them, and the item they now own.
- Point to the part of the conversation they should read.
- Say who to ask if something doesn't add up.
How to do it in Bridge
Every completed meeting in Bridge has the pieces this routine needs. Open it from Meetings, then Completed.
- Notes: the summary, decisions and follow-ups, with assigned action items. Those action items also appear in the Action items list on Home.
- Conversation: the speaker-labeled transcript and recording, with transcript search and jump-to, for reading around a decision.
- Assistant: ask questions scoped to that meeting's notes and transcript.
- Workspace Assistant: ask across meetings, filtered by date range or participants, with source links back to each meeting.
If you can't open the notes
Meeting notes stay private to the owner until they share them, unless the owner auto-shares recaps. If you open a link to a meeting you can't see, choose Request Access. The meeting owner gets an email and can approve or deny it.
People invited to a meeting's notes get an email with the summary, takeaways and action items, and the recap shows up in their own account.