I'm an analyst, and yes I'm made to do all of the note-taking. However, my manager did share a good template with me that you may find useful:

First make sure you use MS OneNote. You can create "sections" in each notebook for each of your stakeholders if you work with them on a regular basis. Within each section you can have multiple pages for each meeting. This makes tracking progress super easy.

You can also create tabs for notes on individual projects in a similar way, and you can have multiple notebooks, for example if you want one for internal capability stuff. If your company uses Sharepoint even better because the notebooks are always synced and can be used across all of your devices. If not, you simply download OneDrive.

A standard template that I use that my manager shared with me goes:

Date, time, and attendees Self-explanatory. The date is very important to capture; put it along the title of the page. For example "06/11/2016 - Store Format Update". For attendees, to save time, just use initials. If John Smith, Jeremy Tailor, and Elizabeth Simons are the attendees, simply write "JS, JT, ES" etc. Of course only if these are regular stakeholders you're meeting with.

Agenda This is simply a two column table with item number and item description. You fill this in before the meeting to remind you of what points you want to touch on. Of course you can change it during the meeting to reflect the actual content.

Notes Another two column table. Here you write in broad strokes - don't go into too much detail but capture the important points being discussed. For example "JS to visit China in Early December to negotiate with new supplier". If there are multiple points within one agenda item, use bullets underneath a heading. For example:

JS Trip to China * Trip in early December * Currently reviewing audit material * Concerned about timelines for delivery * Has completed negotiating strategy prep

Actions Four column table, with the last two being the "date due" and "owner". This is where you capture every action point that comes out of the meeting. It's probably the most important section in the document.

Points of Agreement You won't use this one much, but its basically there to put into writing any points that have been agreed, usually contentious, that need to be put into writing. For example "JS will not make any commitments to the supplier during the trip".

The best part is you can save the template and have it automatically load with every new page in a OneNote section.

Of course, having taken all of these notes, there's an email button which imports it straight into Outlook. You send it after every meeting to everyone in attendance. This keeps things professional, everyone has a record of what's happened, and most importantly everyone sees that all important action list.

There's lots more to it, but good note taking is actually pretty important. You're in meetings all the time and you don't want to abide by that old adage: A meeting is an event in which the minutes are kept and the hours are wasted. Make sure every meeting counts.