There an interesting thread on Emacs-Orgmode about the state of the art for using Org-mode to take minutes of meetings. That’s a need that many of us have so you may find it worthwhile taking a look at the thread. It’s currently very short (3 posts) so you can read it all in a couple of minutes.
What struck me about the thread was the mention of inline tasks. I’d never heard of them before so I did some exploring. The idea is that you can add a TODO item without starting a separate heading. That’s ideal when you’re taking notes in a meeting and you need to insert a TODO in the middle of the discussion. For example, suppose the discussion turns to bike sheds. You add a heading for Bike Sheds but in the middle of the discussion it’s decided that the committee needs to research colors. You don’t want to add a new heading because you’re still discussing bike sheds but you do want to capture the “research colors” task.
Inline tasks provide an easy way of doing that. Sadly, I couldn’t find them documented anywhere except in the code. The commentary at the start of org-inlinetask.el tells you everything you need to know so look there if you’re interested in using inline tasks. You can easily read the commentary using finder-commentary as I discussed here. Following Phil’s suggestion, I have it mapped to Ctrl+h Ctrl+c.