Most people capture meeting notes fine. Finding them three weeks later is the problem. This is fixable, whatever tool you use.
How to Organize Your Meeting Notes
Use Your Meeting Assistant's Built-In Features
Before building any system on top, most people underuse what their note-taking app already gives them. Conversational search. Summaries that pull out decisions and action items. Templates for recurring meetings. Anarlog, Otter, Granola, Fireflies - all of them have this to some degree.
Start there. Search is good enough now that a lot of organizational overhead simply isn't necessary anymore. Most things you'd want to find are one query away.
If You're Using Anarlog, You're Already at an Advantage
With most meeting note-takers, you're renting space in their database. Switch tools and getting your notes out cleanly is harder than it should be.
Anarlog, on the other hand, keeps meeting notes in local SQLite on your own device. That local-first design matters when you want the meeting record close to your work.
When you need a portable copy, export Markdown from the local meeting record. That makes it straightforward to archive or move selected notes without treating Markdown files as the canonical store.
In practice, export selected meeting notes as Markdown when you want to link them to projects and people in Obsidian or Logseq, search them in VS Code, or hand them to another local workflow.
The local SQLite record remains canonical in Anarlog. Export is a deliberate handoff, not a second live database to maintain.
If You're Taking Notes Manually
The organizational options are the same, with one extra step first: get your notes into a consistent place and a consistent format. A folder of plain text or markdown files, named by date and meeting, works fine.
The format matters less than the habit. Get your notes somewhere consistent, and the rest becomes much easier.