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Turn meeting notes into action items

Paste rough notes or a transcript and get decisions, owners, deadlines and a follow-up email.

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Best for

  • Anyone who runs or minutes meetings
  • Project leads chasing follow-ups
  • Teams that forget what was agreed

What you need

  • An AI assistant your company allows
  • Your notes or a meeting transcript
  • The list of attendees

Starter prompt

Copy it, fill in the parts in square brackets, and paste it into the AI assistant your organisation allows.

Below are notes from a [meeting type] on [date] with these attendees: [names or roles]. Extract: 1) decisions made, 2) action items as a table with task, owner, deadline, 3) open questions. Only assign an owner or deadline if the notes say so; otherwise write 'Not agreed'. Then draft a short follow-up email to the attendees listing decisions and actions, under 150 words, in plain English. Notes: [paste]

How to use it

  1. 1.Paste the notes

  2. 2.Run the prompt

  3. 3.Fix owners and dates

  4. 4.Send the follow-up

  1. 1

    Paste the notes

    Use your own notes or a transcript. Remove anything confidential that should not leave the meeting.

  2. 2

    Run the prompt

    Run the starter prompt and read the decisions list first.

  3. 3

    Fix owners and dates

    Check every owner and deadline against what was actually said. Fill each 'Not agreed' with the right person or date.

  4. 4

    Send the follow-up

    Edit the email, send it the same day, and paste the action table into your tracker.

Watch out. The assistant may assign an owner or deadline nobody agreed to. Check each one before sending, and keep confidential discussions out of tools your company has not approved.

What you end up with

A clear list of decisions and owned actions, sent to attendees the same day.

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