Hugo 2.0 - Better meetings through centralized, actionable notes

Thanks for hunting us @chrismessina. It’s great to be back with the latest from Hugo 🙌 ! We’ve also had some great coverage and support over the past year: “Hugo’s innovation is a platform that integrates more deeply within a user’s calendar, recognizing things like past notes from a meeting with a specific person…” TechCrunch “Hugo is much simpler [than Evernote] because the calendar connection organizes everything... Hugo provides one place to collaboratively prepare, take notes, assign tasks and share, and integrates with more than 20+ work apps.” Entrepreneur

Hey ProductHunters 👋, We know that meetings really sucked in 2020. Our research shows an average of 33% more meetings, each with more attendees being squeezed into them, and getting longer too 🤯. Worse, the value created in each meeting along with the action items, are typically lost as soon as the meeting ends. And, we now know that this new way of working isn’t going to change any time soon 😫. Hugo was already helping thousands of teams with meeting docs that link to your calendar. But, throughout the pandemic, Hugo users (small startups of 5 to large companies like Netflix and Spotify) beat these horrible trends. On average, Hugo customers attend 40% less meetings, complete >50% more action items and improve meeting culture by more than 70%. Now we have rebuilt Hugo to make meetings even better for remote teams. You can get set up in <2 minutes, prepare for meetings asynchronously, take meeting notes together, leverage custom templates and manage action items through Hugo tasks and app integrations ⚡️. Finally, a huge thanks to the PH community! When @hnshah first hunted us in 2019, we connected with some of our most loyal customers. Since then, we’ve iterated on their early feedback and subsequently closed funding from Google's Gradient Ventures, Slack Fund, Founder Collective and Entrée Capital. Hugo remains free for teams of 10. Connect your work calendar to get started. Now go and have fewer, shorter, better meetings 🚀🚀🚀. - Josh, Darren and the Hugo team

Love the product. Would love to see Otter.ai integrations + Airtable.

Hugo was massive over the past year. The ability to connect notes with the calendar (dates & attendees) is a life saver. Congrats (and THANK YOU!) @joshlowy @darren_chait + Team on building such a great product! I love the different widgets that allow you to create follow-up tasks. You can jointly craft an agenda with your stakeholders to maximize everyone's times. The Hugo team continues to hustle and innovate on the product; the new templates help ensure that whatever type of meeting you are running, your meeting is well structured and you are set-up for success.

We embedded Hugo in our org and within a couple meetings it was clear that meetings were going to be 100x more effective. Meetings are not simply about the time spent, but rather about the preparation and outcomes, and Hugo makes the whole process feel fun and efficient. Hugo is like having a full-time professional personal assistant dedicated to supporting my ability to have meetings worth having.

I’ve had the good fortune of working with the Hugo team and can say this about them... They are OBSESSED with getting to know their customers in order to serve them better. Always adding new capabilities and integrations. Always improving the UX. Always listening. When doing customer interviews, different people liked different features but the team emerged as the thing everyone loved. Definitely recommend giving it a try (heck it’s free for up to 10 users).

Hugo has been key for capturing value from what can feel like endless meetings — especially in the era of “that meeting could have been a Slack message.” Its robust tools help keep remote teams accountable and meeting templates are great for adding structure to collaborative time.

Have been using Hugo from past few weeks! Great product! @darren_chait

This has changed my day to day so much, I can spend entire days in meetings and have little time to get anything done. Hugo lets everyone be responsible for the meeting notes and actions. Walking away from a meeting, everyone knows who has to do what and when. No single person is responsible for going away and typing up the notes and circulating. The templates are also ready great, a huge variety to get you started!

We use Hugo a lot, mainly as a way to keep on track with our meeting time. We all add agenda items ahead of any standing meetings so that the time is used effectively (or we know whether to cancel). We write up meeting notes and integrate with Slack to ensure they're shared among the rest of the team. Recommend.