Chapter 3 · Lesson 2

Meeting Notes to Action Items

Extract decisions, owners, and next steps from messy notes.

6 min · Reviewed July 2026

Scenario

You leave a meeting with rough notes and no clean task list.

Ask for structure

AI is good at turning messy text into sections: decisions, action items, owners, deadlines, blockers, and follow-up topics.

Check ownership

Names and deadlines are easy to misread. Review the output before sending it to the team.

multiple choice

What should a meeting-notes prompt ask for explicitly?

Choose the answer that best fits the principle from this lesson.

Takeaway

AI is useful when it turns messy notes into accountable next steps.