Yes. Meeting notes and meeting minutes are essentially the same thing, although when people talk about meeting minutes they usually are referring to a more formal version of meeting notes.
Meeting minutes generally formatted carefully and contain a complete record of everything important that happened at the meeting.
Meeting notes, on the other hand, can be as detailed and complete (or not complete) as the note-taker wishes, depending on what you want to use them for.
Some note-takers record an almost verbatim account of what happened in a meeting. This is usually unnecessary.
Instead, focus on capturing only the following information in your meeting notes:
Yes! This blog post on team meetings has some very good examples of how to take meeting notes along with some of the sample templates that are available here for free download as Word docs (.docx), Google Docs, and for use in Hugo.
All of the example meeting notes templates on this page are free. Copy, download, and enjoy having better meetings and more-organized meeting notes.