The Best Alternative to Hugo for Meeting Agendas

Hugo is a meeting notes platform that organizes your calendar, notes, and tasks in one application. Hugo’s mission is to foster a culture that improves meeting performance. Hugo has helped more than 30,000 teams and professionals enjoy more productive meetings. However, as of November 30, 2022, Hugo will no longer be available as a standalone product. 

Where does this leave current Hugo users, you may be wondering?

Since Hugo is remaining live until November 30th, 2022, users have until then to switch to a new meeting and management tool or risk a significant loss in productivity. So, to make your search for your new perfect meeting and management tool easier, let us show why Fellow is the best alternative to Hugo.

• Hugo’s key features
• The best Hugo alternative
• Fellow key features
• What makes Fellow the better alternative?

Hugo’s key features

• Meeting templates

Hugo offers 80+ free meeting agenda templates for Microsoft Word, Google Docs, or to use in Hugo. Hugo also provides templates in 13 different categories, for example, agile meeting templates, one-on-one meeting templates, and executive meeting templates. 

• Note-taking

Hugo allows users to take collaborative meeting notes during the meeting. Users can also review notes from previous meetings in either a side-by-side view or import them into their meeting agenda. 

• Collaborative meeting agendas

Hugo enabled users to show up prepared for each meeting with a collaborative meeting agenda. Plus, attendees can contribute to the agenda even without a Hugo account. 

• Calendar sync

Hugo enables users to sync with their Google Calendar in order to organize and access meetings and contribute to meeting notes. 

Hugo integrations:

• Asana
• BlueJeans
• ClickUp
• Confluence
• Chrome
• HubSpot
• Loom
• Slack
• Trello 

The best Hugo alternative: enter Fellow

Fellow is a meeting management software that allows users to create and collaborate on meeting agendas, meeting notes, and action items, making meetings more productive and delightful. Fellow also encourages users to organize their ideas through Streams. From personal to-do lists to team OKRs, Streams allow users to track action items and ideas to promote productivity. Plus, with Fellow’s 360 feedback feature, users can give and receive regular feedback in real-time.

Meetings worth showing up to

A well-run meeting can foster communication and collaboration by including an agenda the whole team can contribute to. Try using a tool like Fellow!

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Fellow vs. Hugo

Comparing Hugo to Fellow, there are a few differences in key features. The following are features that Fellow offers but that Hugo doesn’t:

• One-on-ones
• 360 feedback
• OKR tracking
• Mobile app
• Desktop app
• Guest users

Fellow’s pricing

Starts at $7 per user per month

Learn more about Fellow’s plans

Hugos pricing 

• Free – Basic plan for up to 10 users.
• Pro plan – $6/user/month for up to 25 users.
• Business – This plan requires requesting a demo for pricing. 

Fellow key features:

• Calendar integration

Meeting agendas in Fellow are connected to your calendar, ensuring you never show up to another meeting unprepared with no talking points or purpose to the meeting! The calendar integration also serves as a reminder to add to the meeting agenda to make the best use of everyone’s time. Fellow’s calendar integration is compatible with Google Calendar, Office 365 Calendar, and Outlook.  

• 1-on-1s (check-ins)

Using Fellow’s 1:1 meeting agenda template, direct reports can host collaborative one-on-one meetings that result in productive conversations. Fellow also encourages users with questions to add to existing meeting agendas for extra guidance. For recurring 1:1s, Fellow enables users to use recurring templates that carry-over uncompleted action items to ensure no actions get forgotten about.

• Action items (meeting tasks)

Prompt accountability by assigning action items to teammates with due dates directly on a collaborative meeting agenda with Fellow. Users can also keep up with their own action items in their “My Action Items” tab to never miss an action item again by keeping on top of all the tasks from different meeting agendas in one place.  

• Private and public streams (planners)

Users can keep track of personal to-do’s, OKRs, action items, and private notes in one place to plan their week and record career milestones with private streams. Users can also use public streams, which enable users to track company OKRs for alignment and collaborate on projects and checklists. 

• Meeting templates

Fellow enables users to show up prepared and save time in meetings by using one of Fellow’s hundreds of pre-build meeting agenda templates. With 24 categories to choose from – such as weekly team meetings, 1:1 meetings, and agile meetings – it’s never been so easy. 

• Goal tracking 

Users can track OKRs in Fellow’s “Objectives” tab. Start achieving your goals by recording, defining, and tracking OKRs and their progress! OKRs can also be linked to meeting agendas to make reviewing progress as a team more accessible and to encourage accountability. 

Fellow integrations

• Google Meet: meeting agendas in Goole Meet
• Zoom: meeting notes in Zoom
• MS Teams: manage your meeting agendas right within Microsoft Teams
• Slack: share meeting agendas and notes via Slack
• Asana: send action items generated during your meetings over to Asana.
• Jira: turn action items created in Fellow into Jira issues.
• Zapier: connect Fellow + Zapier to automate your meeting workflows across 3,000+ apps.

What makes Fellow the better alternative?

Rated the #1 meeting management software and loved by the world’s best teams, Fellow is sure to be the better alternative to Hugo. With more core features, better apps and integrations, and more additional capabilities (dark mode, for example), Fellow is sure to level up your meeting and work habits.

Improve your workflow with Fellow 

Make the switch from Hugo to Fellow to improve your workflow and have delightful meetings. Reap the benefits of all Fellow has to offer, including the features that Hugo did not, and start seeing your productivity and efficiency improve between you and your teammates!