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Meeting-to-Actions & Decision Log

Capture minutes, decisions, and action items without losing the room

PMs repeatedly face the tension of facilitating meetings while also capturing minutes and action items. This recipe takes messy notes or a transcript and outputs structured minutes, a decision log with rationale, and a follow-up message ready to send.

House RecipeWork3 min

INGREDIENTS

✉️Email📄Google Docs

PROMPT

Create a skill called "Meeting-to-Actions & Decision Log". Input: meeting agenda + notes/transcript. Output: minutes + action items + decision log + follow-up message. Requirements: - Action items must have owner + due date; if missing, ask or mark TBD explicitly. - Decisions must include rationale and alternatives when available. - Produce a "Follow-up draft" that can be pasted into email or chat. Guardrails: - Do not invent decisions or owners. - Keep minutes readable: short bullets, no rambling transcription.

How It Works

Paste your meeting notes (even rough bullets) or a transcript along with the attendee

list. The recipe normalizes everything into structured minutes, extracts action items

with owners and due dates, logs decisions with rationale and alternatives, and drafts

a follow-up message you can send immediately.

What You Get

  • Structured minutes: topic bullets, decisions made, risks/issues raised
  • Action items list: task, owner, due date, definition of done
  • Decision log entries: decision, rationale, alternatives considered, participants
  • Follow-up message draft: ready to paste into email or chat

Setup Steps

  1. Provide the meeting agenda (or let the recipe generate one)
  2. Paste notes, transcript, or messy bullets
  3. List attendees and decision-makers
  4. Review outputs and send the follow-up

Tips

  • Action items require owner + due date; missing info is marked TBD with a follow-up question
  • Decisions are tagged with rationale so they don't get revisited months later without context
  • Minutes style: formal or lightweight (your choice)
  • Publish to email, doc, or wiki
  • Nothing is invented — if it wasn't in the notes, it doesn't appear in the outputs
Tags:#meetings#notes#action-items#decision-log#followup