If you're writing e-mails or coding during a requirements review meeting or teleconference walk-through, your attention is misplaced.
The real concern isn't how to track issues but how to effectively and efficiently review the issues log during a project review meeting.
By a lucky coincidence, I'm writing this article after a review meeting with a customer where we implemented a lightweight XML client.
The drive for unanimity, after the 2005 review meeting ended in a bad-tempered stalemate, meant that Iran had a potentially consensus-blocking veto.
Call up review meeting after new product pilot run, discuss all quality issue happened in pilot run, write trial report and correction report.