Dive Reviews

I love how Dive helps me and my partners plan meetings and have everything I need for the meeting easily accessible. I appreciate the ability to add action items as I go, assign people responsible for tasks and follow up on them. The action items page is incredibly useful as it centralizes all my tasks from different meetings, so I can prioritize and delegate them with ease. Additionally, it is seamlessly integrated with Gsuite, making it even more convenient.

One thing I would like to see improved in Dive is the mobile version. It isn’t wholly optimised yet. Hopefully it will be soon.

Problem:

Whether we like it or not, meetings are the closest thing to an operating room, a playing field for growth. Yet most of us hate them. We complain about, try

to avoid and long for the end of meetings, even when we are running the darn things! How pathetic is it that we have come to accept that the activity most central to running organizations is inherently painful and unproductive?”

Dive helped me solve that problem. Dive helo my leadership teams execute the work, get things done and keep everything on track and held together.

Dive is a handy tool that will make your work easier. The team behind it is super helpful, so don’t hesitate to try it out - you won’t be disappointed!

I have tried a number of meeting tools but Dive is by far the most useful. It not only allows me to create agendas easily, it stores all the notes in a central location. I can also easily share the notes with my team and get comments on my ideas. As a bonus, I can also use it to organize my tasks and projects.

Name is not intuitive. Does sound like a Actionable/Meeting management tool.

For me,

It simplifies Actionable management for us after every meeting.

Also it helps me summarise the MOM pretty neatly in a timeline flow.

Dive’s chrome extension is one of the best integrations for google meets. It is effortless to use as you don’t even need to click a button for it to start working. Given that it plugs into our existing workflow it was easy to adopt and make collaboration fun rather than a task. I especially love how a few folks on my team who didn’t speak up much now have a place to input their opinions making our meetings a lot more inclusive!

I don’t like to manually click the button send to email, however, I’ve been told that they’ll be having automation for the same soon!

My team and I used a running Google doc for note taking and action items. This led to meetings that were ineffective given the friction and context switching that kept happening. With Dive we can talk and collaborate simultaneously. I love how they even have a meeting history tab to ensure everyone has context of previous discussions.

love how responsive Dive’s customer support is! They are always quick to respond to my tickets and they have even hopped on a live call with me to troubleshoot with their developers. Given their focus on customer experience - they tend to ship fixes and features really fast!

I personally don’t like the fact that they don’t have a transcription feature built-in yet. I, however am assured that this is something they’ll be shipping with more intelligence in the coming weeks :)

I used to spend a ton of time finding relevant notes and action items earlier, given how they were scattered across platforms. The fact that they have a search feature that works across my agenda, private notes and action items while also integrating with notion has made every team member use Dive across all our meetings!!

I appreciate the templates, they saved me so much time creating them on my own

it is not that I dislike but it is a requested feature if you can add a special tap for public workshops/meetings with unlimited members that would be helpful

for my business coaching students and me online it is a very much time-saving

Fantastic tool to organise your meetings and be super productive during meetings.

Some of the integrations are not implemented yet, but after speaking to the team I completely trust the roadmap.

Organised meetings, cultural building

Two things - It saves a LOT of time and people from Dive are incredibly helpful.

Before Dive, I used to scramble in meetings. Every day I spend about 5-6 hours in meetings. And most of my meetings used to go over time. Sometimes people will not stop talking about a particular topic and nothing used to get done in a meeting.

Dive helps me assign time to every agenda item and that is a killer feature. I can allocate time to an agenda item say 5 minutes to updates. When I reach the 5 min mark, it'll automatically play a small sound which is a non-intrusive and subtle cue to go to the next agenda item. This has helped us finish our calls on time.

Also, I’ve created custom templates for my team meetings and client update meetings. I just pull up the template and people have the exact idea of how the meeting should go on. This has made my life so easy!

Lastly, I love speaking with the team. I have a shared slack channel with them where I ask basic questions and the team is super responsive. They have also helped me prepare agendas for my meetings and have give me some great tips for my meetings. You'll be surprised by sometimes you'll see the CEO of Dive responding to you on the support and helping us very patiently. Who does that?

Dive is an integral part of my day-to-day life now.

There's nothing to dislike honestly. I would love it if they can add an integration with Monday.

Before Dive our meetings always ran overtime. People felt fatigued because of meetings and even though we were doing hours and hours of meetings things weren't moving.

After implementing Dive I feel that the communication between me and my team has improved significantly. Our meetings are quite fun now. People are engaged and participating, they update the agenda in advance as well. All our meetings have action items now and it gives me a sense of accomplishment by being on top of stuff.

I have been using Dive on a daily basis for the past few months. All my meetings happen on dive and all my teammates love it. One thing that stands out when I think about dive is how it makes all of your meetings more productive compared to other tools.

For example, we set a timer for each of our agenda points in our meetings. Even though it seems like a simple feature, it drives great efficiency. The dive team has spent a lot of time thinking about the customer problems in running meetings and have built a product which delights the customers. I just wish someone had built this product way earlier!

It's really hard to think of something that I don't like about Dive. But, if I really had to pick one, I would say it would be good to have a feature which sends out automatic notifcations to the attendees, when their names are called out in meetings!

Dive has increased the productivity of my team. We have fewer meetings now which overrun beyond the scheduled time thereby allowing people to stay organized and focus on their individual tasks.

I love how I can claw back the time I spend in meetings for myself and my team to work on high-value tasks.

Prepping for meetings is now a lot easier - with the collaborative agenda, everyone can type their updates before our sync enabling them to be under 15 mins daily. My team and I love how Dive allows us to take notes and action items inside zoom - without pulling up other tools while ensuring transparency and collaboration. With the JIRA and eraser integrations specifically, our handoffs feel as smooth as they used to be in person, making Dive an essential assistant across my meetings.

When I started using Dive - I was not too fond of the fact there was no nudge when the assigned time for an agenda was ending. However, I had a check-in scheduled with their CS team, and within a week, they shipped out a nice ding sound nudging our team 30 seconds before the time elapsed. Other than this - I look forward to more integrations such as one with todoist!

I used to spend over 15 hours weekly on just meetings before Dive. Now with Dive, it’s reduced to a mere 10 hours. Moreover, now, I don’t need to spend more time than I want to collect myself at the end of the day. Another way Dive benefits me is by making setting an agenda a habit for my team and me. In fact, a lot of times, our team resolves meetings through it. From having a post-it note hell to being super organized - Dive is an easy recommendation to all PMs.

A key part of my job is to make sure that my people are happy & feel valued. Dive makes this way easier.

I initially explored Dive as a few of our folks were voicing their concern with the # of meetings they had, so I was hoping to use Dive to cut down on meeting time.

After we rolled out Dive, eNPS scores went way up. The feedback I’m getting is that this is in part because of the time-savings, but even more-so because of the changed perception of meetings within our org. Folks feel all of their meetings are purposeful & have a clear outcome, and that their time is deeply respected.

It’s not the fastest tool I’ve ever used. Also, sometimes I’ll run into a bug (the support team is always super quick to help me out, though). But, for the most part, it’s not noticeable, my team hasn’t complained, and it’s 100% worth it, given the improvement on our meeting culture.

For my company - Zoom fatigue…

We’ve tried everything - choosing days off of meetings, making agenda setting mandatory, setting meeting time limits. This - more than any other initiative - has helped to improve our employees’ sentiment towards meetings.

Also, having note-taking built-in and automatically organized & searchable makes my life way easier. Now, it’s super easy to pull up my notes from previous meetings, so I have the proper context going into every call.