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📝 Turn meetings into action items automatically
The most expensive part of a meeting isn't the hour — it's the decisions that evaporate afterward. This workflow captures every meeting, pulls out the action items, and assigns them, in about five minutes of your time.
Step 1: Capture the meeting
- Video calls: use built-in recording/transcripts (Zoom, Teams, and Meet all have them) or a notetaker app.
- In-person: a phone voice memo in the middle of the table works fine. Get consent from the room first — a simple "OK if I record so I don't miss action items?" covers it.
- No recording? Type rough notes live. Messy is fine; that's what the next step is for.
Step 2: The extraction prompt
Here is a meeting transcript/notes: [paste]. Produce:
1. SUMMARY — 5 bullets max, decisions first.
2. ACTION ITEMS — a table: task, owner, deadline. If owner or deadline wasn't stated, mark it ❓ so I can chase it.
3. OPEN QUESTIONS — anything discussed but not decided.
4. PARKING LOT — ideas raised but out of scope.
Do not invent tasks that weren't discussed.
Step 3: Close the loop
Turn those action items into a short follow-up message I can send the group. Friendly, brief, tasks grouped by owner, deadlines bolded, and a one-line ask: reply if anything's wrong or missing.
Send it within an hour of the meeting while memory is fresh. This single habit — same-day action items in writing — will make you the most organized person in any company.
The ❓ rule
Notice the prompt flags missing owners and deadlines instead of guessing. A task without an owner and a date isn't a task, it's a wish. Chase every ❓ before you send the recap.
Weekly roll-up: save the recaps in one document. On Friday, paste the week's recaps in and ask: "Which action items from this week have deadlines next week? Build me a Monday checklist."
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