I know a young (youngish; everyone is ‘young’ to me these days) who works in IT, of all fields, and takes all her notes in shorthand while listening to and participating in program development sessions. She writes out most of the discussion—from all parties—in shorthand so that at the end of the meeting she can clearly enumerate and elucidate what were the salient points and which way the program / database will be modified, enhanced, debugged or whatever we’ve been discussing, and by having all of her notes that way, she can—and often does—have backup when things don’t work exactly as planned, because she can point to the page in her book and read the conversation back to us months later, if need be, to prove that this was exactly what we wanted.
I wish that I had learned shorthand.