Field notes for negotiations
Bracket is a notebook for following a negotiation, in the room or online. Write down who has the floor, what they say and which paragraph they mean. Afterwards, read your notes back and share them with your team when you choose.
Plan the day
The day’s meetings sit on one timetable by topic, in the venue’s time wherever you are. Mark the ones you will follow and see who else from your team is going.
Tuesday 10 November
Tuesday 10 November
Just transition
Article 6
The meetings, notes and texts drawn on this page are invented.
Write as they speak
Mark who has the floor and keep writing. Each note keeps its time and the speaker who had the floor, and the strip above your notes shows the meeting’s turns, each in its speaker’s colour. Type a quotation mark to quote and // for a thought of your own. Notes are saved on your device first, so a dropped connection does not stop you.
@speaker[paragraph"quote//reflection#tacticCite the paragraph
Type [ and the paragraph’s number. The paragraph appears under your note, and your note appears beside the paragraph when you open the text.
Paragraphs of the draft conclusions, version 2
Arrows move, Enter cites, Esc closes
A new draft is out
Open it and see what changed since the version before: new words, reworded paragraphs and dropped ones are marked, and every square bracket still open is a click away. Every version is kept.
Since version 17 new, 5 reworded, 3 dropped
Read it back
Read the day’s notes back, tidy them and mark each meeting checked. Download them as Markdown, as a spreadsheet with one row per note, or as PDF reports.
Notebook
My notes at COP31 Antalya.
Notebook
My notes at COP31 Antalya.
Share with your team
Your notes are yours: in Bracket, no team admin or site administrator can read them. When you choose, share a copy of checked notes with a team; its admin receives it first and decides who in the team reads it. Marking notes checked shares nothing.
Share this meeting
Just transition work programme: contact group
Teams
Each team’s admin receives the shared copy first.
Policy teamObserver networkWhat to include
9 checked items ready
Negotiations, starting with the climate talks
Bracket is built for multilateral negotiations, where texts are drafted and disputed line by line. It starts with the UN climate talks, so for now its timetable, texts and lists of Parties and coalitions come from them.
Learn it before the meeting
A short walkthrough and two practice meetings teach the screen before you need it. Practice notes are kept under Practice, apart from your notes from real meetings.
By invitation
Bracket has no open sign-up. Each person is invited, by an admin or by Bracket, and the invitation email sets up the account. To ask about joining, write to contact@bracketnotes.org.