"That means you don’t want me to retain anything since I won’t be recording any next actions, etc .."

I think one of the great tasks of the 21st century, will involve our collective learning of the appropriate uses of cybertechnology, and placing this into the greater context of tool useage - alongside our old tools.

Paper & pencil seem to work great for next actions. My MacBook is more powerful than the computers at mission control during the (faux?) moon landing - and provides the possibility and temptation to record too much. Hopefully there is a meeting secretary to get it all down - this is not my task at a meeting.

Once the meeting is out, I can transfer my (hopefully very concise!) "next actions" to whatever tool I might wish to use to track these.

I face this same question when taking notes on a patient interview (I'm a doc). I can type it all (I type fast), & later can sort, search, and actually read this - but there is just something about the nature of the box, a black hole kind of effect, that gets between me & the patient. So caught between this and wanting still to "record it all", I take notes on paper while maintaining eye contact and attention; and videotape the interview to satisfy my need to not miss a stitch.