The key is OmniFocus and its Mail Drop service put simply, that means I can email to-do items to myself. The next step is to make sure I do what I need to do after the meeting. Thanks to TextExpander, they’re formatted consistently and in such a way that they’re easy to search. Using this workflow, I can take notes in Drafts on my iPad (or, in a pinch, on my iPhone) or in nvALT on my Mac, and they’re synchronized among all of my devices. So by typing meetx, I’ll find all my meeting notes almost instantaneously. When nvALT launches, I just start typing it automatically begins searching that folder of notes for the text string I type. I have both it and Notesy configured to store notes in the same default folder in Dropbox. If I want to take meeting notes on my Mac, I use nvALT, a great text editor with a lightning-fast search function. The snippet automatically fills in the current date and time ( %Y-%m-%d at %H:%M). The first part of the first line marks the note as a meeting I use MeetX instead of something like meeting because I know that if I search for MeetX I’ll see only notes with that heading instead of every document containing the text string meeting. I have one such snippet that serves as a template for all my meeting notes: TextExpander understands short keyboard sequences (snippets) that expand to fill in words, lines, or even pages of text. That means any text in it is available on all my Dropbox-connected devices. Notesy is just one of the apps to which Drafts can send text, and I use it for one reason: It syncs via Dropbox. Only after I’ve done so do I need to think about where that information should go the app has dozens of built-in conduits for sending text to other apps and services. I can launch Drafts and start entering information almost immediately. Drafts for iPad and iPhone is my main note-taking app on both my iOS devices because of its flexibility and its ability to work with TextExpander.