Mindup Reviews

Don't know if there were apps like Mindup before, but there sure needed to be, given how critical it is to ensure stuff that's discussed in meetings persisted after the meeting. I am a Professor and have to take multiple classes a day, all of them online in the situation, and was in need of a tool that'd help me associate important points for, and discussed in, a lecture with the lecture and the students I was lecturing. Mindup solved that for me. I use action items to ensure some important concepts and questions do not get missed out. I have created custom templates for my BTech students, MTech students and PhD students respectively, each having agenda items specific to the category of students, and this helps me ensure that I maintain a flow across my interactions with the students. My institution uses Google Workspace, and thus, I can connect my GCal class calendar and it fetches all my class details into Mindup.

As I understand, this is a new product, in the making, and thus, some of its features are in the process of being implemented/improved. I prefer a dark mode, given that it's better for my eyes. I also often need to download agendas and share it across, something I am unable to do on Mindup. Finally, I often forget creating agendas and would prefer if there were options to give me notifications if I forget to do it before a meeting

Mindup has become my post class analysis and pre-class practice tool. I was recommended this tool by my son, and would further recommend this to anyone who has to manage multiple meetings to ensure that you don't get lost.

Mindup has moved a lot of stuff from elsewhere - my head, my calendar, my mail, my computer(MS Word/PDF files) into a single app, and that has brought a lot of consistency for a non-tech-savvy person like me

The best things I like about mindup are

1) It helps you to have all your meetings, notes, and action items in one place which are organized on your timeline

2) I really like the user experience of mindup which helps me to smoothly navigate and find the information I want from my meetings

3) Mindup stats show how much time I have spent in meetings in comparison to the previous week. This helps me to understand where I spent my time and how can make the best use of it,

4) The pre-built templates that mind up provides helps me save a lot of time and structure my thoughts according to the type of meeting easily

Overall Mindup is a really good product that helps me to organize my thoughts and stay productive. But it could improve the onboarding experience of inviting team members into mindup and increase collaboration of notes and have more meaningful conversations. They can also bring features like email preview that will help me to understand what are the notes or agenda that is shared with the participants of the meeting.

The problems I am solving with mindup are

1) All my information was scattered across multiple places so it was very difficult for me to search for them and had wasted a lot of my time in this process.

2) All my meeting notes and my todos were not associated with the corresponding meetings so I had to remember or think of what I had discussed in the meetings

3) Sharing of information was very difficult as everyone in my team had their own note-taking app.

Mindup has helped me to solve all the problems I have been facing with its awesome features like integrations, private notes, and agenda templates.

The templates are far the best feature. As a startup founder, you often do a lot of things for the first time, and Mindup has some great templates / frameworks which helps you ensure you've covered all the right things. This was particularly helpful when I hired my first few individuals and could set the agenda for team meetings or knowing what should be discussed in a sprint meeting with my developers. Coming from a non-tech background, I had no idea of how development works, and this just makes it so easy.

It's a separate app, and it some times becomes inconvenient to remember to open it and take notes. This then becomes one of many apps you need for meetings like Otter.ai, Sunsama, Pipedrive CRM etc. It would be good to have it more integrated with an email app or even a CRM like Pipedrive - or if you could pop notes in an email and email it to the platform, or maybe even a Notion integration?

As far as I am aware, there is nothing else like this, so its a great tool for any startup founder or individual where your day just gets eaten up by lots of meetings.

It helps you have more productive meetings by planning exactly what needs to be discussed. It is the worst feeling when you've had an hour long meeting with someone and still havnt captured all the required details. Mindup just makes it clear for both parties what needs to be discussed. Its also an indication to the other party that you respect their time and have thought about the purpose of this meeting.

You can easily set up agendas for meetings, share with colleagues, and keep track of what to do next.

There's not much to dislike. What Mindup does, they do well. I am looking forward for future updates to the integrations. It would be great for Mindup to sync with Calendly or Notion so that links are more readily available and flows more easily into my workflow.

It is a wonderful new app and does what it is supposed to do well. It is still limited as it is a growing team, but once new integrations come out, it will be a must-have.

It's great to have meetings identified and planned ahead of time in a more easily adjusted way than the old-fashioned word document. It's also nice that all the agendas are in the same place and can be referenced when needed.

I really like the prepopulated templates that they offer for each meeting. They have changed the way I engage with my direct reports. We co-create topics and action items ahead of our meetings because of Mindup. I don't know where we'd be without it!

You have to add the template to each meeting (it's not seamless for recurring meetings). You can add it ease but it would be nice for it to apply to all meetings in a series.

The ability to co-create on topics and agendas ahead of meetings. Additionally, the ability to create the right structure/framework for new managers. It keeps meeting on topic for me.

I like the idea of integrating all the apps and progarms we use to have a cohesive meeting.

There are not video tutorials on how to use. Shows that zoom can be integrated but does not even show up when you login. Has Slack but how does it integrate.

The to do option and follow up just looks like a checklist. How does it follow up to make sure task is done?

Use other programs that integrate into it.

Integration is the problem. And not knowing how it actually works through a demo. How do we invite other people?

Benefits is that you can include your entire team.

That it helps me create deliverables to complete after the meetings

I was disliking all the emails and then I changed my settings

Making sure meetings are run efficiently.

My entire custom success team uses Mindup to productively prepare for customer meetings. Not only can we share agendas in advance with participants, but both parties can comment directly ahead of time. This isn't just a time-saver, but a way to focus the time on the right items. Then, after the meeting, we can send an email recap of all of the notes with a click of the button. On top of that, tracking your previous meetings notes and setting up templates is a cinch.

Currently, they are limited on the 3rd party integrations. There are a number of ways we could roll this out for other departments once the integrations are made. Thankfully it looks like they are actively tracking which ones matter the most to customers. Fingers crossed!

Having a universal meeting tool for our team is necessary if we want to grow and scale our team. If we rely on post-it notes, note-pads, and napkins across a large team, we won't have a common source for collecting pivotal customer information. Most importantly, this is a proactive approach that our customers appreciate. It allows for transparency and an easy way for closed-loop communication.

My fav is the seamless, 2-way integration with GCal. Many other apps I've used often falter at some stage - such as reverse-integration, real time updating of the calendar or so on. Custom agenda templates help my team create checklists for our regular standups, retrospectives, PI planning meetings, ensuring nothing gets missed. Action items ensure that important items are prominent until they're checked off. Assets such as PPTs for meetings stay available and we don't have to search for them. Mindup has put in a lot of analysis into bringing a lot of the 'most relevant' features, rather than 'all' the features.

It's still pretty infant, and that means small issues arise - action items often get added doubly since it takes time for an item to reflect. It lacks integration access with other apps such as Notion and Google Meet, which are critical for my own use case.

Mindup helps me keep track of recurring meeting agendas and action items so that they're not missed. In a myriad labyrinth of meetings, it's very easy to forget some points, not just because you haven't written them down, but also when you have written them down someplace, but can't find it at the right time. Mindup ensures that these items are prominently visible via the app, and that means, the one screen holds all we need - the agenda, the action items, and the assets.

Using this has reduced our team standups' time by at least 10 mins since there's less back and forth. Agenda items persist after the meeting for all participants, which means that participants can go back and check things that were discussed any time in the future.

1. Action items ensure that the critical points in any meeting are addressed, and ticking them off increases the feeling of achievement.

2. Custom agenda templates allow me to create templates for specific meetings like backlog refinement meets, PIs, personal reviews, one-on-ones, to ensure consistency when collating these later on.

3. Clean interface with only the most essential features ensures that I don't get confused when I get onto the platform, but instead, have a very clear idea of what I am here for, and end up doing it.

1. Action items adding is slow, and often times, multiple copies of the item end up getting added.

2. Integrations are limited to GCal/Outlook only - missing Google Meet/Zoom integrations.

3. Unable to download meeting agendas to share with those not on the meets.

I keep track of agendas, todos and action items for my meetings with Mindup. Being a full time Software Engineer with several side hustles, I see about 15-20 meetings a week, and it can be tough to keep abreast of the agendas for all of them.

Mindup integrates with my Google Calendar to fetch meeting details, so that I can join directly from Mindup. I plan the Meetings' agenda, send it across to the other members in the meet, create action items and todos during the meeting, which persist forever, so that I can come back and refer to them even weeks later