What Bracket does

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 which of your team are in a meeting now.

The meetings, notes, people and texts drawn on this page are invented.

Write as they speak

Type @ and a few letters to name who has the floor, and keep writing. Each note keeps its time and its speaker, and the strip above shows the meeting’s turns, each in its Party’s colour. Quote with a quotation mark, think aloud with //, cite a paragraph with [. Notes save on your device first, so a dropped connection does not stop you.

Take notes together

Use chat to arrange who follows each meeting and compare observations with your teammates, in the room or online. See when someone is typing, and keep the conversation beside your notes.

Read it back

Read the day’s notes back, tidy them and mark each meeting checked. Ask a reviewer for markup, which comes back to you alone, and share a copy of checked notes with your team, whose team lead receives it first. Download your notes as Markdown, a spreadsheet or PDF reports.

Read every version

Every version of a text is kept. See what changed since the last one: new words, reworded paragraphs and dropped ones are marked, every square bracket still open is a click away, and your notes stand beside the paragraphs they cite. Find a text, a symbol or a paragraph across the talks.

Hear what changed

A meeting you are going to moves, a new version of a text on your topics is out, an invitation waits for your answer: it is under the bell, with what needs you first. What changed in Bracket itself is on its updates page.

Talk to your team

Everyone, each meeting and your team have a conversation, in a window on every page. A team has its members, their access and the copies its members share.

Learn it before the meeting

A six-minute walkthrough and two practice meetings teach the screen before you need it, with a cheat sheet to print; practice notes stay apart from your real ones. The guide explains how a session runs, who speaks for whom and how to read a draft, with a glossary of the words in the room.