Meeting summary for people who missed it
Use this to send a two-minute read to stakeholders who were not in the room: what was decided, what changed and what they need to do, without making them watch a recording.
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Transcript to action items with owners and dates
Use this right after any meeting. Paste the transcript or your rough notes and get a clean action-item list with owners, due dates and source quotes, plus a list of anything left unassigned.
What you'll fill in
- [meeting name and date] What the meeting was and when e.g. “Weekly ops sync, Tue Oct 7”
- [attendees] Names and roles of the people in the meeting e.g. “Maya (ops lead), Jon (warehouse), Priya (customer service)”
- [transcript or notes] Paste the transcript or your rough notes e.g. “(transcript from your meeting recorder)”
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The prompt
You are a meticulous chief of staff. Extract every action item from this meeting. Accuracy matters more than completeness of fields. Never invent an owner or a due date. Meeting: [meeting name and date] Attendees: [attendees] Transcript or notes: """ [transcript or notes] """ Output: 1. Action items table with columns: # | Action (starts with a verb, specific enough to act on without the meeting context) | Owner | Due date | Source (a short quote from the transcript showing where this came from). - Owner: use the name only if someone clearly took it on or was clearly assigned it. Otherwise write "UNASSIGNED". - Due date: only if stated. Convert relative dates ("by Friday") into actual dates based on the meeting date, and show the original phrase in brackets. Otherwise write "No date". 2. Unassigned or vague items: anything that sounded like a commitment but has no clear owner or outcome ("we should look into..."), with a suggested owner based on roles, clearly marked as a suggestion. 3. Open questions raised but not answered. 4. Possible misses: anything an attendee said they would do that is easy to overlook (said in passing, mid-discussion). Keep actions concrete: "Email the carrier to request a revised pickup window" not "Follow up on shipping".
How to use it
- Open a new chat in Claude (the others work too).
- Paste the prompt and replace every [bracket] with your details.
- Review the output, check any facts, and edit to taste.
Why Claude: Claude handles long transcripts well and is careful not to assign owners or dates that were never stated.
Tips
- Only paste meeting content into AI tools your company has approved, and remove confidential client, HR or financial details if you are unsure.
- Transcripts with speaker names give far better owner assignment than unlabelled text.
- Paste the UNASSIGNED list into your team chat right away. Unowned actions are the ones that never happen.
Example output
Action items — Weekly ops sync, Tue Oct 7
| # | Action | Owner | Due date | Source |
| 1 | Email the carrier to request a later pickup window (after 4 p.m.) | Jon | Fri Oct 10 [by Friday] | "I'll ping the carrier by Friday about moving pickup" |
| 2 | Draft a customer email template for delayed holiday orders | Priya | No date | "I can write something up for the delay emails" |
| 3 | Pull last month's return reasons into a spreadsheet | UNASSIGNED | Mon Oct 13 [next Monday] | "Someone needs to get the return reasons together by next Monday" |
| 4 | Order two additional label printers | Maya | Wed Oct 8 [tomorrow] | "I'll put the printer order in tomorrow" |
Unassigned or vague items
- "We should probably look at weekend shifts for December." No owner or outcome. Suggested owner: Maya (ops lead), to bring a proposal to next week's sync.
- Return reasons spreadsheet (#3). Suggested owner: Priya, since customer service has the return data.
Open questions
- Does the new carrier contract include Saturday pickups?
- What is the cut-off date for guaranteed holiday delivery?
Possible misses
- Jon mentioned in passing he'd "double-check the shelf labels in aisle 4". This was said mid-discussion and could easily be lost.
FAQ
Does this prompt work in ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini?
Yes. It is plain-language and written to work in all three. Best fit: Claude. Claude handles long transcripts well and is careful not to assign owners or dates that were never stated.
What do I need to fill in?
Replace each bracket with your own details: [meeting name and date], [attendees], [transcript or notes]. The more specific your input, the more useful the result.
Is this prompt free?
Yes. Copy it above and use it as often as you like. It is one of the free samples from the Meeting notes to action items pack.
Will I get the same result as the example?
No. The example was made for a fictional business to show the shape and quality of the output. Your result depends on your input and the model, so review and edit before you use it.
Do I need a paid AI plan?
Usually not. Free plans handle most prompts. Paid plans help when you paste in long documents or run a long multi-step sequence in one chat.
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