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⛏️ 💫 Mining Gold from Messy Meetings with AI
When Your Brain Goes Everywhere (Except the Meeting)
Janet Fitzpatrick-Wilks
January 19, 2025 • Estimated Reading Time: 5 minutes
Remember last week when we talked about organizing our brilliant but scattered thoughts? Well, this week we're tackling another classic nuero-spicy challenge: getting the most from meetings when your mind has other plans.
Picture this: You're in an important meeting. The presenter is sharing crucial information, and you're determined to stay focused. But suddenly, you realize they just said something about quarterly projections, and you're... planning a vacation to Finland In your head? Complete with snowshoeing and sledding?
(Don't worry - we've all been there. That trip sounds amazing, by the way.)
Traditional meeting strategies tell us to:
Take better notes
Stay more focused
Just pay attention
Stop getting distracted
For those of us with neurodivergent minds, these "solutions" aren't solutions at all - they're just more ways to feel guilty about how our brains naturally work.
🌟 Enter AI: Your Meeting Memory Partner 🌟
Think of AI as a kind of an “alter-ego-brain” that:
Never zones out
Catches every detail
Sifts out the good stuff
Understands context
Connects the dots
Is fluent in both neurotypical and neuro-spicy
And best of all? It doesn't judge when your brain takes a scenic route through Lapland during budget discussions.
Why AI Works for Minds Like Ours
Our brains don't process meetings in neat, linear ways. We might:
Hyperfocus on one fascinating detail
Make unexpected connections
Process information in waves
Need time to synthesize
Miss things in real-time but catch up brilliantly later
AI adapts to these patterns instead of fighting them. It becomes the bridge between our natural thinking style and the traditional meeting structure.
Your AI Meeting Toolkit
Supporting Tools:
Voice recording apps
Smart note-taking devices
Meeting summarizers
Task extraction tools
To find the AI apps that fit your needs, there are several extremely good tool directories listed below.
Find Your Flow
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✨ Pro Tip: Don't force yourself to process everything in real-time. Let AI be your memory buffer - you can explore and organize the content when your brain is ready! ✨
Resources
There are several great AI Tool directories accessible for free. Here are a few good ones. Don’t feel overwhelmed by the sheer volume of tools; these directories make it easy to drill down.
There’s An AI For That (TAAFT): The #1 website with 27,728 AI tools listed; easy to filter and sort.
Futuretools: Categorized lists, concise tool descriptions, and a strong online community.
There’s an AI: A curated collection of top AI tools designed to boost productivity, automate tasks, and streamline your workflow.
Product Hunt: Real-time community feedback and reviews, and early access to new AI projects.
 Meet Jackson Barn Cat, our office manager, AI whisperer, and all-round curious cat. Each week he’ll nose bop a new challenge. | The Meeting Miner:
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Weekly Poll
Do You Get the Most from Meetings |
In last week’s poll about organizing idea capture it seems that sorting them out in our heads is still the most popular approach.
Next Week
We'll explore "Time Blindness and AI Time Travel" - how AI can help us navigate the mysterious realm where "just five minutes" becomes two hours, and deadlines seem to exist in a parallel universe.
The Last Word
Your "distracted" meeting mind isn't broken - it's processing information in its own unique way. The challenge isn't your attention span; it's that traditional meeting structures weren't designed for minds that process at quantum speeds and in multiple dimensions simultaneously.
JFW
About Me: After decades of sitting in international boardrooms—trying to force my ADHD brain to process information "normally"—I finally discovered that my divergent thinking style wasn't a bug, it was a feature. Now, with AI as my partner, I'm showing others how to turn their unique neuro-spicy minds into professional productivity.
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