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Shepherd — Meeting notes, agendas & tasks - in Google Calendar & Meet
Shepherd is a Chrome extension that plugs directly into the Google Calendar and Google Meet for teams to take collaborative notes, set custom agendas and assign action items, as well as connect with other productivity apps. Everything in one place!
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@maria_brm thank you for the support - Yes, we integrate with Slack which is great for distributing your meeting notes to your team as well as receiving notifications from tasks and mentions assigned to you in Shepherd :)
@thomas_filmer Awesome! Thanks for the answer Thomas! ^_^ Indeed, it is so helpful and it can boost a lot efficiency inside of a team, I will be glad to introduce it to my crew and start using it! ^_^ I am always happy to support great projects and rise awareness about great and creative teams! ^_^
@maria_brm Thank you so much, its always great to receive awesome feedback like this! :) :)
Learnt about Shepherd a few weeks ago and installed it as well. The onboarding was great. but did no have the chance to try it out. This is a great reminder. Love the idea and your logo :)
@rucha_joshi8 We're really glad the onboarding was smooth for you :) We'd love to hear your feedback once you've tried it out 🙏
?makers you should try to incorporate this books strategies with your idea. The book is called 'Measure What Matters' and is run on a premise of 'OKR's' - objectives and key results (how most corporates and companies run like Google, Workday) would be super neat to automate that!!
@nicole_ogloza we would love to do that. We are adding more and more support for templates and this is definitely one we want to have.
Where else do you imagine Shepherd could incorporate OKRs and other ways to help with objectives and measures?
@ana_vizcarrondo_goyanes I would show real world examples of how Google uses OKR's and show how they can achieve big harry audacious goals, and show how to scale backwards from that. Some entrepreneurs (lucky them) never had corporate experience, and showing them how to apply this in their companies and scale to a corp, would be soooooo neat to see! Helps building a life long and lasting culture!
Hello Product Hunt community 👋
I’m Jamie, the Co-founder and CEO of Shepherd.
We’re super excited to introduce a product that we’ve been working on for the past 12 months. Introducing the Shepherd Chrome extension - a free plug-in for your Google Calendar and Google Meet, to help you run more productive meetings instantly!
Key benefits:
⚡️ Quick & Convenient - take meeting notes instantly from your calendar and video
🚀 Collaborative - take shared and private notes with your team in real-time
✅ Organised - create custom agendas, assign tasks, @mentions and /Commands
💥 Connected - share your notes to other apps (Slack, Trello, Notion
and more).
👀 How it works:
1. Open your Google calendar and the Shepherd sidebar
2. Click on an event in your calendar and prepare for it before it begins
3. Join your Google Meet and open the Shepherd sidebar
4. Take collaborative and private notes and assign tasks to you and your team from your GMeet
5. Connect your favourite apps and sync your notes and action items to these within seconds
6. And Bob’s your uncle 👨
What we have in-store:
📺 Dashboard list of all meeting
💻 Zoom plug-in
🛕 100’s of templates in the agenda library
🏆 Micro-learning nudges
📲 100s of integrations (HubSpot, Asana, Jira, Salesforce and many others)
🏅 Assign meeting roles
🤝 Polling and voting
🌚 Dark mode
📝 Meeting transcription and recording (with timestamps)
💭 Calendar insights and analytics
And so much more!
Shepherd is available for Google users (Chrome, Calendar & Meet). Sign up today to get started for free!
😻 Please do share any feedback and comments, and of course feel free to share Shepherd with your friends and teams to supercharge their productivity during meetings!
Happy meetings,
Jamie
@ymir thank you - feel free to let us know how it goes once you have taken it for a spin!
...how did you guys get Adam Scott from 'Parks and Recreation' to guest in your video at the 1:24 mark? 😜
@matthew_ritchie We had to pull a few strings, but managed to convince him to be a Shepherd Ambassador 😜
?makers Wow, I’ll definitely try it out. For now I see it’s a free tool, any plans on monetizing it? 👍
Thanks @galaxyx7 🙌 Would love to hear what you think. Currently the tool is completely free, and we'll be releasing paid plans with additional features/functionality this year.
Congrats on your launch and video, very well explained! @jamie_gotz
We've been using plain G notes for our meeting minutes, but this seems a lot more powerful. I'm willing to give it a try.
Any way I can check the integrations list? We're using Shortcut for PM, that would be helpful.
@stefani_kovachevska Thank you for the kind words! I think Shepherd will be really useful for project management. We're hoping to have a Shortcut integration live very soon - as soon as we do, you'll be the first to know 😉
Congrats on the launch! This looks awesome, and is a much needed product for many I'm sure. Definitely installing this ASAP!
Hi @indranil_dasgupta, thank you for installing - yes the product caters for many different industries! Let us know what you think of Shepherd once you have taken it for a spin.
Fascinating thing! At the start I thought it can be sth overwhelming, because I've already been using a lot of apps and this is plus one more. But the collaboration and sync with notion made me look at it at another perspective, and I liked it! :) Will definitely try it with my team when we will come back to work after war (I hope soon) 😢
Hi @alinama Productivity can often be super overwhelming, which is why we're optmizing for 'less is more'. We also hope the dust settles very soon in Europe and that life resumes to normal 🙏 Thank you for your support!
@alinama We definitely appreciate any feedback you may have after the dust settles!
Brilliant work. I love products that are of real use and need! Congrats with the launch and good luck.
sounds really useful - keeping track of all meetings is not easy! great idea folks!
@chriscarex Keeping track of meetings is super challenging - we'd love for you to give Shepherd a try and see if it helps :)
Amazing product! Loved using it - makes meetings wayy more productive! Thanks for creating this ?makers
I'm a huge advocate for this product!! Well done on the launch. Will you guys be looking at a dashboard list view meetings? This would be super useful 🙏
@gigi_brett thank you! The list of all past meeting notes is being worked on as we speak! We are planning to release it in the coming weeks. We are also working on a view of upcoming meetings to help you prepare for them :)
Hey Jamie
Looks good. Getting people to write and circulate minutes is a worthy goal.
I founded a startup targeting this same use case in 2011. "Pailz - every meeting action done". We made the mistake of trying to build both the minutes writing interface (MinuteNow) and the task management tool (Pailz). Once trello and asana hit the scene shortly after we started, we could see we were clearly outgunned.
I wrote a bunch of SEO friendly content called "The Meeting Minutes" - https://web.archive.org/web/2012... - I'd be happy for you to repurpose any of the content, if you find useful for your own marketing efforts.
Cheers
Toby Beresford
@tobyberesford Hey Toby - thanks so much for your support! It's really interesting to hear your journey in trying to solve for unproductive meetings - I'm sure there are several things we could learn from this. Thank you for the offer to repurpose some of the content, we'd love to look into this 🙏 All the best!
I've been using Shepherd as an early tester for some time already and it's dramatically improved my meeting workflow. I love how simple this makes taking high quality notes in meetings, especially when sharing with teammates or logging key information when assessing dealflow.
Seems so obvious. Why has no one built?! Looks like great execution. Looking forward to use. Can we expect a zoom integration at some point?
Thank you @jamesroypoulter - Yes, the Zoom integration is in the pipeline and should be available soon, keep an eye out for the update ;) Let us know what you think once you have taken Shepherd for a spin!
I have been using Shepherd at Airthings for the last few weeks. Brilliant tool to ensure every meeting has an agenda and minutes are captured and shared. Shorter and more productive meetings 🚀 .
Please! Can you have some default templates available, currently one has to make them oneself, but surely there is a simple agenda and minutes template you could make quickly available? 🙏
@martin_mcgloin thank you so much! Glad to hear Shepherd is being of help at Airthings.
Great feedback, we are currently working to soon release some simple templates.
Let us know of any other improvements you would like to see
@martin_mcgloin Thank you. Interestingly, we've had a few requests for pre-set templates, so we'll ne working hard to get this in the product for you to try. If there are any templates in particular, please feel free to let us know what these are so we can prioritise them :)
The UI looks smooth and clean - do you have different subscription options? Congrats, this looks epic. Very exciting!
Hi @hugodelafargue, I am glad you enjoy the UI - we have an amazing designer on the team. We are a free product currently, hoping to help everyone improve their meeting productivity.
@hugodelafargue There will be paid plans launching soon which will allow further collaboration across your team and cool new features 🔥
One of the best Explainer Videos I’ve ever watched - downloaded the tool just because of it! 🚀 Congrats on the launch!
@ally_macrobert Hey Ally 👋 So glad you enjoyed our explainer video! And to answer your questions, YES, Asana is likely next on our integrations roadmap, so watch this space!
Me and my team have been using Shepherd for the last few months. We are loving it! Clean design, fast, and easy to use.
@oystein_hansen1 We're so glad you and your team are enjoying Shepherd for your meetings! We try to bring as much value as possible, in the simplest way 😊
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