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Re:The Document Culture of Amazon by alok-g on Sunday June 20, 2021 @10:59AM (#27570670)
+1 overall.

>> I'm with you on filtering out the key points. But I felt I had to do that in paper meetings as well.

Agreed. Even for the verbal discussions after paper meetings, the law of triviality still usually applies. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_triviality

Just that it has become worse with online documents.

>> I have no real issue closing out comments after the review.

+1.

>> are a lot better than sending around word docs with track changes on tho.

I agree, collating feedback from multiple Word documents is a lot harder for accommodating the smaller comments (i.e., those comments which should be handled later offline).

It would have been ideal if (online) document review tools had the following features:

(a) Allow the reviewers to mark their own comments on importance. I would find this useful even as a reviewer so that I can bring up only the important points into the verbal discussion. It would also be helpful if I can mark some comments as intended for myself only.

(b) Submitting the key comments first (using 'a' above), subsequently the remaining ones after the meeting.

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