Looking for faster ways to capture Jira issues without breaking focus?

[Vishal Sahu]

What I’m trying to do:
I’m trying to make it easier for our team to capture and update issues in Jira when ideas or blockers come up during standups, reviews, or ad-hoc discussions.

What I’ve tried so far:
We’ve used Jira’s issue templates, quick create, and backlog grooming to stay organized. These work well once you’re in Jira, but we noticed that updates often get delayed when people are deep in discussions or switching contexts.

We also tested an internal setup using a voice-based assistant (Gennie) to capture issues or comments verbally and sync them later, mainly to see if it reduces missed details.

What’s not working or still unclear:
I’m curious how other teams handle real-time issue capture without slowing down meetings or relying on memory afterward.

Do you use specific Jira workflows, automations, integrations, or habits that help with this?
Would love to hear what’s worked well in real-world team setups.

Thanks in advance!

[Tomislav Tobijas]

This is a good question @Vishal Sahu 

As we use Loom a lot, I would maybe suggest giving this a try. Simply add a Loom notetaker to your meeting to make notes about these discussions you have. If you're on the Business + AI plan, it can generate very decent meeting notes, which would then state which items would need to be updated.

Loom itself cannot update the items directly, but if you combine it with Rovo (and Rovo skills), I think that would be quite a combo.

I did work with this a couple of times. The scenario was something like:

• Use Loom to record a meeting
• Loom generates meeting notes
• Use Rovo to go through meeting notes and the whole recording and generate additional content (our case was related to creating content in Confluence, but it should work with Jira too)

This is all quite 'experimental', but I believe it can speed up the whole process enormously ⚡

Cheers,
Tobi

[Calvin]

Honestly I prefer that we do it on the jira story/bug right there and then. Because it becomes "we have this idea it sounds good we'll right it down later" to "ah now we've started writing it down I can see that this has major issues/won't actually solve the issue etc" or even more importantly "yes we have this on a note somewhere but didn't actually assign who will do what we talked about until we have a second meeting because no one followed up on the idea we all agreed on".

For what its worth we usually have Business Analysts that will write it up after so for most people they haven't seen it as a huge issue except of course the Business Analysts.

A random left field but I've been testing Rovo recently and people are thinking about adding notes to it to see if it can update as required itself for us. Something maybe to think in the future? Especially as people are starting to use the note taking functionality in Microsoft Teams to get the info for.