| The real problem here is that you have things you want to capture from ephemeral conversations, and you have structured information you want to build up over time. Technology can't solve this for you, but using the wrong one will make things worse. You need to a) pick a medium for the longer lived stuff b) come up with some rules for how it will be used and, probably more important, maintained, and c) put the time in, ongoing. Lot's of people spend time on (a), don't spend time on (b) and try and avoid thinking about (c). This means for example if a later conversation shifts the table a bit, some one needs to go over earlier material and adjust or annotate it. I think a lot of approaches can work, but they have to be flexible - you need to be able to structure things, and also add different media (links, embedded images/scribbles, whatever). By nature any system that allows this will let you make a terrible mess of things. Consider for example Wiki's. I'm sure most of us have seen useful wiki based documents, and completely useless messes where you can't find anything. The difference isn't the technology. Trying to be practical, I would start with either a file system structure on a shared platform (google docs, dropbox, whatever) with some simple structure and rules. Or a wiki or wiki like system with good attachment support and hopefully search. |