Hey everyone 👋 I've been a long-time Fellow user, relying on it for meeting notes and agendas across my teams for years. About three months ago, after some recurring frustrations, I decided to lead a pilot migration for my team to **Docket**. I wanted to share a detailed, honest look at the transition—the good, the bad, and the configuration hurdles we overcame.
**Why we decided to make the switch:**
* **Cost vs. Feature Ratio:** Fellow felt increasingly "heavy" for our core use-case. We were paying for a lot of collaboration bells and whistles that, in practice, only a few power users leveraged.
* **The Google Workspace Integration Depth:** Docket's promise of living *inside* Google Calendar and Docs was a major pull. Fellow's sidebar is helpful, but it still felt like a separate context.
* **Simplicity & Focus:** My team's primary need is consistent, accessible meeting notes and clear action items. We found Fellow's continuous feature additions started to clutter the interface.
**The Migration Process & Key Learnings:**
The actual data migration was manual—we exported our Fellow templates and key recurring meeting structures as Markdown and recreated them in Docket. This wasn't fun, but it forced a healthy "spring cleaning." The real work was in re-educating the team. Here's the Ansible-style checklist we followed for rollout:
```yaml
# Our internal 'Docket Adoption Playbook' (simplified)
- name: Configure Docket for Team
hosts: localhost
tasks:
- name: Install Docket Chrome extension
become: yes
uri:
url: "https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/docket/..."
dest: "/tmp/docket.crx"
- name: Create and share core note templates
copy:
content: "{{ item.template }}"
dest: "./docket_templates/{{ item.name }}.md"
loop:
- { name: "project_kickoff", template: "## Objectivesn## Key Decisionsn## Action Itemsn- [ ] " }
- { name: "incident_postmortem", template: "## Impactn## Root Causen## Remediation Steps" }
- name: Schedule onboarding session
community.google.calendar_event:
summary: "Docket Deep Dive - Q&A"
description: "Bring your questions and a recurring meeting."
```
**Three-Month Verdict: Pros & Cons**
**👍 Pros:**
* **Seamless Google Meet Integration:** Starting notes directly from the calendar invite or Meet interface is flawless. The context switch is eliminated.
* **Reduced Friction = Higher Adoption:** The barrier to creating and finding notes is lower. Notes are just *there* in the associated Calendar event.
* **Cleaner, Faster UI:** For our core workflow (create note, assign tasks, share summary), it's noticeably quicker.
**👎 Cons & Pitfalls:**
* **Missing "Wow" Features:** We do miss Fellow's speaking time tracker and the more robust comment threads on agenda items. Docket's collaboration is more barebones.
* **Template System Less Powerful:** Fellow's template library and sharing is more advanced. Our workaround was a shared Google Drive folder with template snippets, which is clunkier.
* **Reporting Gap:** Fellow's analytics on meeting habits were interesting for leads. Docket provides almost none.
**Final Thoughts:** For our team, which lives in Google Workspace and values speed and simplicity over advanced meeting analytics, the switch has been a net positive. The adoption rate is higher because the tool is less intrusive. However, if your team heavily uses Fellow's more sophisticated collaboration features or needs deep meeting culture analytics, Docket might feel like a step back. It's ultimately a trade-off between depth and streamlined efficiency.
I'm happy to answer any specific questions about our setup or the pitfalls we hit along the way!
—John
Keep it simple.