Sometimes during a meeting you might want to assign a task to someone who is not in that meeting. Now you can with Fellow's "Assign to Anyone" feature.
Steps
Create a new action item like usual
Click on the assignee icon at the end of the action item.
Search for the name of the person who you would like to assign the action item to.
If they are not in the meeting, the icon of the assignee will have a surrounding dotted line.
Once assigned, the new assignee will be able to view the action item in their My Action Items section