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What this guide will help you do
- Separate decisions from suggestions and open questions.
- Extract an owner and due date only when the notes contain them.
- Mark missing owners or dates as unconfirmed.
- Keep a link or reference to the original notes.
Ready-to-use prompt
Paste only the meeting notes you are allowed to use. Keep owners and deadlines as “unconfirmed” when the notes do not actually state them.
Organise the meeting notes below for follow-up.
Purpose: help participants confirm decisions and next actions quickly.
Output sections:
1. Brief summary
2. Decisions
3. Action items in a table: action, owner, due date, priority
4. Unresolved questions
Use only the notes. If an owner or due date is missing, write “Unconfirmed” instead of guessing. Merge duplicate actions but do not remove important context.
Meeting notes:
[paste notes]Example: Preparing a new service launch
The launch date is 20 August. The help page must be updated by 15 August by Tanaka. Final testing is due by 18 August, but the owner is not decided. The customer announcement date remains open.
Summary: The team confirmed the launch date and several pre-launch tasks.
Decisions: Launch on 20 August. Update the help page before launch.
Actions: Update help page — Tanaka — 15 August. Complete final testing — Owner unconfirmed — 18 August.
Open item: Decide when to send the customer announcement.
The meeting example shows why a note such as “Friday?” should remain a question until an owner confirms the deadline.
Ways to adapt the prompt
Keep decisions, actions and open questions separate. Add priorities only after the factual extraction has been checked.
Create a follow-up email
Turn the decisions and assigned actions into a short message to participants.
Prepare the next agenda
Use unresolved questions and overdue actions as agenda items.
Add tentative priority
Rank actions only when the notes contain enough impact and deadline information; label the ranking as a proposal.
Checklist before using the result
Before publishing minutes or assigning work, verify which statements were decisions, who accepted each action and whether the deadline was agreed.
- Every action is supported by the notes.
- Owners and dates were not invented.
- Decisions are not mixed with proposals.
- Duplicate wording did not hide separate responsibilities.
- The original notes remain available for context.
What we checked hands-on
Prompt Ready
In Prompt Ready we tested meeting-note requests with separate decision, action and open-question outputs and reviewed the generated request before use.
- Check dates, amounts and product claims against the source material
- Do not paste confidential or personal information into an external AI service unless your rules allow it
- Review the draft for the intended reader before sending or publishing it
Official sources and further reading
Frequently asked questions
Can ChatGPT identify an owner from the conversation?
It can extract an explicitly assigned owner. If responsibility is only implied, ask it to mark the owner as unconfirmed.
Should I paste a full transcript?
You can, but remove unnecessary personal or confidential information and consider summarising very long transcripts in sections first.
How do I handle several meetings on the same topic?
Provide the date and source for each set of notes, then ask ChatGPT to keep current decisions separate from older ones.
View the product
Use Prompt Ready to turn a task and a few constraints into a request you can review before pasting it into your AI service.