Welcome to the mysecretary blog

We built mysecretary because a friend of ours — let's call her Diane — got roped into being the board secretary for her HOA. Every month, the same cycle: scribble notes in a meeting, burn most of a Sunday afternoon formatting them, send to the board, get three sets of conflicting edits back, resubmit.

This blog is for Diane.

What you'll read here

We'll write about board governance the way volunteer secretaries actually encounter it. State-by-state notes (Davis-Stirling in California, Chapter 718 in Florida, Property Code 209 in Texas — the statutes that make a minutes document a legal record, not just an email recap). Robert's Rules applied plainly, without the jargon. The weird edge cases: executive session, roll-call votes, tabled motions, what to do when a quorum dissolves mid-meeting.

Minutes are a record of actions taken, not a transcript. That one sentence saves most secretaries more time than anything else we could teach.

We'll also publish the occasional product note when we ship something worth mentioning. Today, for example: you can now click any field in a generated minutes document to fix a typo or correct a name before you download the PDF.

What you won't read here

No listicles. No "10 ways to revolutionize your board meetings." No AI-hype copy. This blog is as plainly written as our emails.

If there's a specific question you want covered — send it to hello@mysecretary.app. A human reads every message.

— Mark, founder of mysecretary