So, who takes the kind of notes Comey did?

[Hekate]

50. College students, even as an undergrad. When I got to my grad program I could do you a transcript...

...of intense presentations, with my marginal commentary, in longhand. It was how I remembered things.

When I was an admin asst and supervised others, I was trained to memorialize things about my supervisees in anticipation of the annual performance review. Memo to file.

At one of my secretarial jobs I did keep a CYA file, because there was someone above me who I did not trust and my immediate boss (the actual department head), was gone for long periods of time. Other than that, no CYA files.

When I was on a County Commission, I automatically took notes of our interviews.

Good high school teachers taught note-taking back in the day, and it was an extremely useful skill for me. Only arthritis (i.e. age) and carpal tunnel syndrome slowed me.

I would be very disappointed to hear of anyone in a position of real responsibility, such as the FBI Director, who did not keep memoranda of all contacts with others of high responsibility and power. Betcha there's files on every Cabinet member he met too. Just keeping things straight in his own mind, among other things.