The Short Version · 1 min read
The meeting wrapped, everyone nodded, and a week later nobody agrees on what was actually decided — so you schedule another meeting to sort it out. A prompt turns messy notes into decisions, owners, and dates before the meeting even ends.
It rarely fails because the discussion was bad. People talk through the problem, land on a direction, even agree on who's doing what — and then it evaporates, because nobody wrote it down as a decision. What gets captured, if anything, is a loose paragraph of notes: what was discussed, not what was decided. Two weeks later, three people remember three different versions of who owns what, and the only fix anyone reaches for is putting the same people back in a room. The meeting wasn't the problem. The lack of a record was.
Brain dump your raw meeting notes in here and try:
“Turn these meeting notes into a short list: Decisions made, Action items (with an owner for each), and Due dates. If something is unclear or was left open, flag it separately instead of guessing.”
After your next meeting, run your notes through this before anyone leaves the building — or at least before end of day. If the prompt can't find an owner or a date for something, that's not a formatting problem. That's the thing that's going to need a follow-up meeting.
