When you have a lot of work to do, it's easy to forget to add your update to a daily check-in, or prompt other teammates to do the same. Fellow makes this easy and automated with sections. These sections are a smart solution that automatically reminds the right people to contribute, sets the stage for a productive meeting and takes the follow up off of the meeting organizer.
What are sections?
Sections are designated by the purple lightning bolt icon beside a header. These are special headers in a meeting note for parts of an agenda that need to be filled out by a meeting participant in advance of the meeting. This encourages meeting preparation, makes it easy to know what to prepare, and can remind participants who may have forgotten. All this together can set your team up for a successful meeting.
Types of sections
Fellow has a range of sections enabled in your workspace by default:
Talking points or action items
Roundtable updates
Daily stand-ups
Mood-o-meters
If none of these pre-populated sections work for you, you also have the option to create your own custom one!
How to add, edit, and remove sections
Formatting
When you go to add a section to a note, you'll see different types of sections:
Section Heading 1: A large heading that can be configured with different templates
Section Heading 2: A medium section heading that can be configured with different templates
Adding sections
Once your header is formatted, use the triple dot menu located beside the heading to Configure section. Use the drop-down menu to select which type of section you'd like to apply then select save.
Editing or removing sections
To edit a section, click on the three dots in the upper corner of the section
Click Configure section if you would like to keep the section but change the format.
If you're looking to remove it instead, select Remove section to remove the section functionality from the header. Once removed, this will appear as the header only with no added functionality.
If you would like to move the section entirely. Select or highlight the whole section and press Delete on your keyboard
When to use sections and why?
Sections can be used whenever there is a part of the meeting agenda that needs to have input for the participants in advance of a meeting. Common use cases include daily stand-ups, sales huddles, etc.
Sections can help both meeting organizers and participants. For meeting organizers, having sections in an agenda reduces the need to manually remind participants to contribute to the agenda before the meeting starts. Instead of sending Slack messages, or emails, Fellow's sections feature does the prompting for you.
For meeting participants, sections makes it easy for you to remember what meetings you need to contribute, and what content needs to be contributed. The formatting is taken care of and you won't be in the awkward position of being the only one who forgot to add their update.
Potential use cases
A team meeting, such as a standup or huddle, where each participant is expected to write and share a status update (sync or async)
All-hands where the meeting organizer is sourcing questions from the audience in advance and during the meeting
Team retrospective where the meeting organizer is sourcing input from the team on what went well and what can be improved