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Minutes Book 2028
A meeting record book that keeps what was discussed apart from what was decided, with an action table naming who owns each item.
Specification
- Trim
- 148 × 210 mm · 5.827 × 8.268 in
- Pages
- 100
- Leaves
- 50
- Sheets
- 25
- Signatures
- 5 × 20pp
- Spine
- 5.72 mm
- Paper
- white
- Ruling
- lined
- Ruling pitch
- 9.17 mm · 26.00 pt
- Rows per page
- 18
- Year
- 2028
A meeting produces two different kinds of text, and most notes blur them together. What was discussed is a record of the conversation: long, useful for context, and not itself a decision. What was decided is shorter and belongs on its own line, because six months later somebody will ask what the meeting actually resolved, not what was said along the way.
Each meeting opens with who was there and who sent apologies, then moves through discussion, decision and action in three separate blocks. The action block is a small table: what has to happen, who owns it, and by when, so a resolution does not quietly stop being anyone's job once the room empties.
It sets no procedural rule. Standing orders, quorum, and who may second a motion differ by organisation, and a printed book cannot be corrected once a rule changes. It holds what was decided and what happens next.
What is inside
- Minutes
- 60pp
- Who was there, what was discussed, what was decided, and the action table that follows it.
- Month
- 12pp
- One page a month, so a run of meetings sits under the month that held them.
- Notes
- 16pp
- Lined pages for whatever a meeting produced that the three blocks did not fit.
- Year
- 1pp
- The year laid out before the first meeting is recorded.
The film
Page by page
A vertical film from our own bench — this page contacts nobody's server to play it, and downloads nothing until you press play.
Real pages
Made at the Hibrkraft bindery, Bogor · about the maker
Books that sit alongside it
- Accounting NotesWorks alongsideshares note-taking
- Field Notes InsertWorks alongsideshares note-taking
- Minutes Book 2027Another year2028 to 2027
Questions
What does one meeting record hold?
Who attended, who sent apologies, what was discussed, what was decided, and an action table naming who owns each item and by when.
Does it set our standing orders?
No. Standing orders differ by organisation, and this book does not choose yours. It gives you somewhere to write down what they produced.
Is it dated?
Yes, laid out against the 2028 calendar.
Who is it for?
Committees, boards, and any small organisation that has to show what a meeting resolved, not only that it happened.
What is the action table for?
Turning a decision into a task: what has to happen, who owns it, and by when, so nothing decided in the room quietly becomes nobody's job.
A want of ready attention; only part of the request is heard at all.
