Fellow

Avantages

Fellow is an easy to use and helpful tool that every manager should have! I have to juggle a lot between clients and different tasks and it's so helpful that I have access to all my action items and tasks in one place. I do love as well the private notes section and I use it quite frequently during calls.

The ability to customize the streams (templates) is also a huge advantage as not all meetings have the same structure. Their integrations and automations make it also very easy to connect with other management tools we use in the company.

Using Fellow is a seamless experience. Keep yourself organized without the hustle of managing different Google Docs for different clients. Fellow can make your life so much easier. I truly recommend it!

Inconvénients

They have so many great features so it just takes a minute before you get familiar with them and use to your advantage. But I guess this happens every time we use a new software anyways.

Avantages

Ability to take notes on meetings with direct sharing with other meeting attendees. The ability to reference back to what we talked about at our last meeting is great for a review. There is always a lot going on with life and the ability to organize it is so powerful.
My absolute favourite area in Fellow is the action items. This is how I get things done. I rely on action items in all aspects of my job as well as personal to-dos. The action items panel is amazing. It allows me to prioritize the order of my action list, this is a huge benefit to help me get the more important things completed first.

Inconvénients

Right now I still have not made the best use of the Home Screen page. It is not an area that I have found as the most powerful addition to my workflow in Fellow. I suspect they will continue to improve in this area though as the feature offering is always expanding

Avantages

Their action item functionality saves me countless time and energy and I am always on top of my tasks. Also super helpful to stay on time/task for large group meetings when you set an agenda.

Inconvénients

Honestly I cannot think of a single negative aspect of their software and believe me I'm not one to hold back criticism of something. Their support team gets back me to in less than five minutes every time I have a use case question. Truly a great software.

Avantages

Fellow is a useful program for scheduling meetings, writing agendas, and providing a collaborative place for those in the meeting to track what's been discussed and what action items need to be addressed following the meeting.

Inconvénients

We don't have an easy way to integrate this with our other project management tools so it's easy for things to be written up in Fellow and languish there.

Avantages

Fellow is great for allowing to you manage a meeting's agenda, take notes during the meeting, and most importantly keep track of action items. Fellow is a very feature-rich product with a nice slick design. The new desktop app is fantastic.

Inconvénients

There are so many features in Fellow that at first, it can be daunting. The onboarding currently in place is great but could be improved a bit. That being said once you get used to things using fellow is a breeze.

Avantages

Fellow allows you to immediately deploy this software to your team(s) and essentially on the fly change your process and add value. It is intuitive enough to start using the software in about 5 minutes, but deep enough to justify continued use and their upper tier plans. User adoption was fairly quick, and the support we've received has been outstanding.

Inconvénients

There was a couple things that were "missing" at first, but that would be if I designed the software. Over the past 2-3 months, Fellow has rectified most of them with their product roadmap and updates. If this is what they've done in the past 2-3 months I can't wait to see the new stuff.

Avantages

Very easy to learn and use. Mirrored my former process in Google Docs but in a more integrated and seamless way. I especially appreciate how all meeting attendees receive the meeting notes and action items as soon as the meeting ends, reducing follow-up time and increasing accountability.

Inconvénients

Small con but some of the capabilities are not entirely obvious, could use a bit more clarity from a UX perspective.

Avantages

Easy to use
Integration with Jira
Integration with Google Calendar
Mobile App available
Ease of sharing minutes with external users
Ease of assigning tasks to various stakeholders

Inconvénients

Actually, nothing comes to mind, the cons that it initially had have been resolved in recent updates

Avantages

Fellow helps me keep my notes organized and linked to ongoing meetings.Sharing notes helps the team stay on the same page.

Inconvénients

Sometimes it takes a minute to load.Occasional glitches have my notes not save

Avantages

Since implementing Fellow, we've had much more productive, engaging meetings. Because the purpose of each meeting is more clear, my team comes to each meeting prepared and ready to contribute. No more time spent at the beginning of meetings clarifying what the meeting is for. Everyone starts off on the same page and the ideas flow!

Inconvénients

The "My Action Items" is a bit confusing, as it doesn't automatically pull action items with today's due date into the "today" section. All action items start in the inbox and need to be dragged and sorted, which kind of diminishes the point of having due dates.

Avantages

Fellow is a wonderful meeting tool that allows me to capture notes, assign tasks and action items, and take personal (private) notes alongside my publicly shared notes. I love that it integrates directly with Slack and Google meetings, and the Mac desktop app is handy in reminding me when I have meetings that day.

Inconvénients

I have no cons about Fellow. Since learning about it in 2020 and using it daily, it has never crashed, never disappointed, and the development team clearly keeps up with use cases as I have been impressed with added features and design updates.

Avantages

Fellow's templates let you prepare for meetings creatively by collecting team members' notes and queries and discussing them during the meeting. Fellow works with numerous programs, making participation easy. Its easy-to-use interface makes it essential for team meetings. It also helps us track team member tasks.

Inconvénients

The fellow helped us organize meeting preparation, documenting all material and creating a unique meeting minutes format.

Avantages

The Fellow helps remind and prepare for meetings in a unique way, and helps develop a solid plan to manage the meeting to get the desired results. All this is done simply by Fellow, using ready-made templates that are suitable for all types of businesses. You can also involve the rest of the team members in preparing for the meeting with you and providing you with their ideas for inclusion and discussion in the meeting. Many of the great features of Fellow help me every day. The data is easy to understand and helps my team identify their strengths and capabilities, and Fellow troubleshooting is always available. I like that it integrates with Google Calendar and other Google programs.

Inconvénients

There is absolutely nothing to dislike about Fellow, as the subscription prices are very nominal, and you can also take advantage of the free version, as it integrates with many applications that help you easily import and export data from and to it as well as share it. Fellow developers also provide several tutorials that make it very simple to use.

Avantages

With Fellow, we can manage meetings in every detail, and it's amazing how we can prepare meeting agendas, take minutes of meetings, assign tasks to members instantly, and remind them regularly of agreed-upon deadlines. Fellow puts in our hands many tools that improve the team's ability to accurately understand what is required of them and know the actions required of each member to implement them before the next meeting, and he can also constantly update the status to keep things clearer for everyone. The good news is that Fellow allows managers to closely monitor interactions, giving them the ability to transparently evaluate performance.

Inconvénients

Not a lot of unwanted things, just sometimes I have trouble keeping meeting minutes in the same format when sending them via email, and when syncing with Zoom, it takes up a lot of screen space, which might make me lose focus.

Avantages

You can take notes and assign actions while you are at google meet. Integration with slack saves your time because it reminds you

Inconvénients

When I mark the the action item by mistake it disappears and can not get it back to the list.

Avantages

Fellow is a great addition for a remote working environment. With everyone working from home, it's hard to keep track of who was supposed to do what. The ability to prep your meetings in advance with an agenda and follow up with explicit action items, assigned to specific team members, is a necessary function of my job, but there aren't many tools out there that are designed with this specific purpose in mind. Fellow makes it really easy to keep track of all of your outstanding action items, how long they have been open, and in what meeting they originated. As a manager it's easy to manage your direct reports and see action items that belong specifically to them. For my direct reports it's easy to see what your manager is waiting on from you, and it makes preparing for one on ones and performance reviews easy and clear.

Inconvénients

Fellow has been most beneficial when the entire team is actively using it to prep for meetings and assigning action items. This isn't a flaw in the software, but it certainly loses some of its appeal if you can't get buy in from your team and organization.

Avantages

Fellow keeps me organized and it's really easy to manage both my professional and personal action items (as well as see action items holistically and on a per workstream basis). It was the second software tool I activated when I started my new role (GSuite was the first). Fellow keeps me accountable and on top of everything I need to do, and provides visibility across the organization into meetings, outcomes and outstanding accountabilities.

Inconvénients

Fellow is still building out their integrations - I am able to integrate with some of the systems that I use through Zapier, but hope that they build out integrations to other tools that I use over time (ie. an integration with Affinity would be really useful to log meeting notes in both places)

Avantages

I have learned that taking notes - tracking action items, and coordinating the accountability of a daily calendar are extremely important in my personal organizational needs. Fellow directly, and effortlessly allows me to integrate all of these elements. I have tried other programs where it seems you need to get a doctorate degree just to learn how to use it - defeating the purpose for me. Fellow is intuitive and sophisticated at the same time.

Inconvénients

There a few simple things like having an illustrated version of my calendar so I can see longer term in the future.

Avantages

I was looking for a tool that can help organize my managerial tasks like onboarding new hires, doing one-on-ones, keeping track of meeting actions, and communicating the next steps with other business units. Fellow is like my team's virtual assistant who never forgets anything. My favorite part is simply having clear meeting takeaways that are shared with the rest of the team and are easily accessible for reference at any time. We are a fully remote company (thanks covid) and using Fellow has really allowed us to be more operationally efficient. Also, Fellow is $5 / user currently which is super economical considering the business impact it has on our operational efficiency.

Inconvénients

Fellow used to didn't have a mobile and desktop app. But they do now and I can't think of any cons at the moment.

Avantages

I like that all of our meeting information is housed in one location and fairly easy to find and access. I like the different templates that they have to choose from, makes for a quick-start. The customer support is awesome. Very patient and willing to step in as needed. I VERY much like that I can see all my personal to-dos without seeing anyone else's (if I could put them in the correct order it would be PERFECT)

Inconvénients

I don't like that I would NEED customer support, I would like the product to be a bit more intuitive. I would also LOVE to choose the different bullet options. Circles for to-dos, squares for check-ins etc. I want to be able to check something off as done today, but still needing work by someone else in the future. This is the biggest detractor in my opinion. For example, if I add to the agenda that I need to talk with Sue about something that I want her to do in the next week, I would like to be able to check off that I had the conversation, but also deploy the task from that same space.

Avantages

The ease-of-use and speed at which new employees can get on and incorporate it into their daily flow is seriously great. Their team is an exceptional group, with excellent support and top-knotch content being pumped out weekly.
Since our company went remote in March, we use Fellow for every meeting on my team and I couldn't go back to how we tried (and failed) to make a collaborative agenda before. Plus, the way it feeds all of your action items into a single stream makes an near perfect to-do list (if that's possible). Truly, nothing but praise from me.

Inconvénients

The recently launched desktop app has a couple of glitches, but seems to be constantly improving.

Avantages

Instead of searching Evernote, Google Docs, my Full Focus Planner...etc now I have ONE place for 1-1 notes. In addition to that agendas for meetings have never been easier to make, assign who is talking about what, and even ensuring action items are assigned and have a due date! The interface is easy to navigate and beautiful. I cannot speak highly enough. Now, the hill I am charging is getting our HR director on board to implement it organization-wide.

Inconvénients

I don't know if I have any at this time! I really cannot complain. The updates have been great. Teammates saying "Another platform!?" At the beginning, but then falling in love with it too has been the biggest hurdle.

Avantages

It works as a central repository for all the things I want to talk about with my manager and the things he'd like to address (instead of tracking meeting notes all over different notebooks).

Inconvénients

I think it would be even more beneficial if it was deployed across the organization (so every team meeting agenda and cross-functional meeting agenda is stored in Fellow).

Avantages

The ease of use - how it integrates with Slack + G Cal, how I can use it easily and share a meeting agenda/talking points to have more productive meetings. I also love the ability to request feedback from colleagues and my lead to continue to grow and learn.

Inconvénients

I really can't think of anything - it's a very effective & easy to use tool.

Avantages

I really like how easy it is to manage my day to day tasks. It's also the perfect tool for one on one meetings with my Director. Before each meeting, I add my talking points, action items, and then send them by slack or email so we can cover everything within the perfect amount of time.

Inconvénients

I have nothing but great things to say about fellow. It's been a 10 out of 10 software in my experience!