Notes to Action Items

Meetings end, notes sit there, and nobody knows who is doing what. This skill takes whatever you have — pasted notes, a transcript, a rough brain-dump — and turns it into a clean list of action items with owners and dates, plus a separate log of decisions that were made. Use it right after any meeting, standup, or call before the follow-through dies.

Convert unstructured meeting notes or transcripts into two artifacts: an action-item list where every item has an owner and a date (or an explicit TBD), and a decisions log that separates what was decided from what is still open. The goal is a single follow-up document you can send to the group with confidence.

• Right after a meeting, standup, 1:1, or call when you have notes or a transcript to work from.
• When a decision thread on Slack or email has sprawled and needs to be converted into who-owns-what.
• Before sending a meeting recap, to make sure nothing fell through the cracks.
• When a project handoff needs a definitive record of open commitments.

When NOT to use: