Do you draw your meetings?

I always have. Doodled in the margin, drawn arrows between the things that belonged together, written a little to the left and a little to the right while someone else was talking. (It never looked pretty. It always worked. And I've been allergic to lined notebooks my entire life.)

I love this part — meeting people, planning things, making things happen, at work and in scouting and on every committee I’ve ever ended up on. The part I put off for as long as humanly possible is the one that comes after: someone has to write down what we agreed on. And when I haven’t had the sense to delegate it, that someone is me.

So I started using AI for it. But not the way you’d think.

A normal AI summary looks more or less the same every time: a grey wall of text, neatly arranged, bullet points, bold in the right places, a few too many emojis — and completely forgotten two days later. Everything’s in there. Nothing stays.

So I got the AI to hand me a map instead. A drawing: arrows, lines, meaning running across the page.

A list is points in a row, each on its own, all weighted the same.

A map isn’t. Things have a place — something in the centre, something small in a bottom left corner, lines between the parts that belong together. Your brain takes it in all at once: what weighs most, what connects, what’s moving.

I remember it because I can see where it sat, not because I read it. And when I come back to something weeks later, I don’t read the minutes. I see the whole meeting in a single glance.

The people I’ve shown them to want them. I’ve shared a few — after meetings, or as summaries of projects I’m in the middle of — and the same question comes back every time: how did you make that?

We set aside some time together. First we figure out what you actually want summarised: a problem you’re stuck inside, or a recording that’s been sitting there that you never turned into anything. Then we build the map with AI, and you watch exactly how it’s done, so you can do it again on your own. You get three different prompts, so you can choose the design that fits you.

The whole session is $ 240.

Want to learn to make your own? Send me a message, or book it straight into my calendar.

I have room for quite a few maps next week — and one, maybe two, on Friday.

— Solfrid