Knowledge Base Article
How to Create and Track Meeting Minutes
Meeting Minutes record what happened in a meeting and what was decided. The record itself holds the meeting's details, and the write-up and any follow-up items live on their own pages beside it.
Go to Workflow & Productivity > Meeting Minutes. Projects also have their own Meeting Minutes page inside the project workspace, for meetings about that project.
Creating Meeting Minutes
- Click Add New. Argenta creates the record and opens the Meeting Minutes Workspace.
- Fill in Meeting Minute Details. Two fields are required: Meeting Date and Title of Meeting Minutes.
- Add a Category, a Short Description, an Associated Client/Customer if the meeting was about one, and your Chapter, Division, or Department.
- Save.
For a meeting you hold regularly, use the orange Copy & Add New icon on the list instead of starting from scratch.
Where the Actual Minutes Go
The details page is just the header. The write-up goes on one of two pages, and which you use depends on how your organization works:
- Meeting Minutes (Text) - type or paste the minutes straight into Argenta, which keeps them searchable
- Meeting Minutes (File(s)) - attach a document instead, for minutes drafted and signed off elsewhere
Action Items
Use Meeting Checklists for the follow-ups that came out of the meeting, ticking each one off as it gets done. That keeps the commitments attached to the meeting that produced them rather than scattered across people's own lists.
Linking a Meeting to Other Records
The Connections page ties the minutes to the other records the meeting concerned, so the meeting shows up when someone is looking at that record instead of only when they go hunting through the minutes list.
The Meeting Minutes Workspace
- Meeting Minutes Details - date, title, category, description
- Connections - links to related records
- Meeting Minutes (Text) and Meeting Minutes (File(s)) - the minutes themselves
- Meeting Checklists - action items
- Meeting Minutes Notes - internal notes
- Record Permissions - who can view or edit
Finding Minutes Later
Search the list by ID or title, and export to CSV. Titling minutes consistently, for example "Board Meeting 2026-07" rather than just "Meeting", is what makes them findable a year on.