# Resources

Source: https://lessmeeting.com/resources/

Our best-practices guide to writing meeting agendas, capturing meeting minutes and following up on action items.

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Best practices for running meetings worth showing up for, organized by stage: pre-meeting, in-meeting, post-meeting. Each stage links to how Less Meeting automates it, plus the blog posts behind the advice.

## Pre-meeting

Less Meeting turns this into reusable, timed agenda templates that carry across every recurring meeting.

- [7 Steps to the Perfect Meeting Agenda](/blog/7-steps-perfect-meeting-agenda/)
- [Who Should Be Attending Your Meeting?](/blog/tell-me-again-why-was-i-invited-to-this-meeting/)
- [How to Follow Up on That Unanswered Meeting Request](/blog/how-to-follow-up-on-that-unanswered-meeting-request/)
- [The Real Cost of Your Recurring Meetings](/blog/making-meetings-more-expensive/)

## In-meeting

Less Meeting keeps you on time and captures minutes your whole team edits together, in real time.

- [The Definitive Guide To Meeting Minutes](/blog/the-definitive-guide-to-meeting-minutes/)
- [Managing The Meeting Hog](/blog/managing-the-meeting-hog/)
- [Meeting Etiquette](/blog/meeting-etiquette/)

## Post-meeting

Less Meeting assigns action items with automated follow-up that carry forward until they're closed.

- [5 Email Templates For Following Up On Action Items](/blog/followup-action-items/)
- [Action Item Templates for Every Type of Meeting](/blog/action-item-templates-by-meeting-type/)
- [How to Actually Carry Action Items Forward](/blog/tracking-action-items-recurring-meetings/)
- [Tools For Tracking Action Items](/blog/best-tools-tracking-action-items/)
- [Action Item Tracking Software](/action-item-tracking-software.md)

## Free tools (no signup)

- [Meeting Agenda Templates](/tools/meeting-agenda-templates.md) — eight agendas with a time limit on every topic, by meeting type
- [Meeting Cost Calculator](/tools/meeting-cost-calculator.md) — what a recurring meeting really costs the team in salary time
- [Meeting Minutes Template](/tools/meeting-minutes-template.md) — a ready-to-use structure for agendas, decisions, and action items

More: [full blog index](/blog/index.md), [help center](/help/index.md).