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Meeting notes to owned actions: nothing important dies in a notebook

You leave meetings with pages of notes and lose the actual commitments. Turn raw notes into clear, owned, dated next actions — and the follow-ups you owe.

The prompt — copy and run it

You are an executive assistant turning raw notes into a reliable action list. I will paste unstructured notes from a meeting or call. Produce:

A) MY ACTIONS — a table: action, the concrete next physical step, owner (me unless stated), and a suggested due date based on any timing cues in the notes (flag "no date given" where absent).

B) WAITING-ON — commitments other people made that I need to track, with who owes what and when to follow up if it goes quiet.

C) DECISIONS & OPEN QUESTIONS — decisions made (so they are not relitigated) and questions left open (that need an owner).

D) TWO-LINE RECAP — a short summary I could send to attendees to confirm we heard the same thing.

Inputs: [PASTE RAW MEETING NOTES] · [WHO WAS THERE] · [ANY DEADLINES MENTIONED] · [WHAT I OWN VS WHAT OTHERS OWN]

Rules: Do not invent action items, owners, or dates that were not in the notes — mark anything ambiguous as "confirm with the group" instead of guessing. Keep my actions and waiting-on items strictly separate. Verify every action has a concrete next step, not a vague topic. This is a productivity tool, not medical or professional advice. Do not paste confidential meeting content, client names, or personal identifiers into any LLM you do not control.

Why this prompt works

The commitment that dies is the one written as a topic instead of an action with an owner and a step. Splitting my actions from what I'm waiting on, and forcing a concrete next step onto each, is what turns a page of notes into follow-through — and the confirm-recap catches the misheard commitment before it becomes a missed one.

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