Paul McKinney
@kestemckinney.bsky.social
I help industrial and manufacturing teams deliver practical digital solutions across project management, software, operations data, and execution systems.
Meeting notes: shared workspace, linked knowledge, or project follow-through? My new article compares Notion, Obsidian, and Project Notes Pro. Disclosure: I built Project Notes Pro. www.projectnotespro.com/news/project...
Project Notes Pro vs. Notion vs. Obsidian for Meeting Notes | Project Notes Pro
Notion, Obsidian, and Project Notes Pro can all hold meeting notes, but they are designed around different jobs. Here is how to choose the right one for your workflow.
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I couldn’t find a workspace that gave me the project-management oversight I needed, so I built one. Here’s how Qt, C++, embedded Python, years of daily use, and agentic coding shaped Project Notes Pro: www.projectnotespro.com/news/how-i-b...
How I Built the Desktop App I Needed to Manage Projects | Project Notes Pro
Project Notes Pro began when my workload changed from a few large projects to one large project surrounded by dozens of smaller commitments, risks, and client communications.
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ProjectNotes has a whole new look. The desktop experience has been rebuilt with a modern interface, flexible project organization, inline editing, light and dark themes, and crisp screen-sharing zoom—all while keeping your data, sync, and plugins unchanged. www.projectnotespro.com/news/a-whole...
A Whole New Look for ProjectNotes | Project Notes Pro
ProjectNotes ships a ground-up rebuild of its desktop interface on Qt Quick/QML. It's a modern, animated UI with a drag-and-drop sidebar, inline editing, a real dark mode, and screen-share-friendly zo...
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Most standup notes preserve the recital: “Yesterday I… Today I…” under every name, while decisions and new commitments vanish inside the transcript. A useful record is shorter: changes, blockers, decisions, actions, open follow-ups. I wrote up the format: test.projectnotespro.com/news/why-you...
Why Your Daily Standup Notes Are Useless | Project Notes Pro
Most daily standup notes record what people said, but not what the team needs to do next. Here is how to turn a meeting transcript into a useful project record.
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Action items don't fail because people are lazy. They fail in predictable spots: no owner, no due date, or they're buried in notes nobody reopens. I wrote up the 5 most common ways they slip — and the fixes. www.projectnotespro.com/news/5-ways-...
5 Ways Action Items Fall Through the Cracks (And How to Fix Them) | Project Notes Pro
Action items don't fail because people are lazy — they fail because of predictable gaps in how commitments are captured, owned, and followed up. Here are the five most common ones and how to close the...
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