So, who takes the kind of notes Comey did?

[Iggo]

46. I have to.

One of my jobs is "No matter whose fault it is, how do we fix the situation that got fucked up?", but one of my boss's jobs is "Who fucked it up? AKA: Who's going to pay for it?"

Therefore I have to keep a trail of what happened and who did what.

Most of my exchanges at work are email to email. My SENT file (and the back-ups) is my record of what was supposed to happen, what actually happened, and what we're doing about it. Sometimes (often enough) someone breaks the chain and picks up the phone and calls me. On those occasions, I take notes so that I can send them an email about what we just talked about on the phone, and now there's a record of it in my SENT file (and the back-ups).

I do pretty much the same thing for meetings. Notes during and after the meeting. Then send an email.

Almost everybody I've ever met who claimed they had a great memory actually had a shitty memory. They were just too lazy to take notes.