Meetings & notes21 categories
Spot decisions that were never actually made
When a meeting felt productive but you cannot say what was settled.
Read the meeting record below and separate real decisions from things that only sounded like decisions. For each apparent decision, classify it as: - **Decided**: a clear choice, with someone accountable for it. - **Preference expressed**: someone stated a view and nobody disagreed. Silence is not agreement. - **Deferred**: discussed, then postponed without saying so explicitly. - **Assumed**: the conversation moved on as though a choice had been made, but nobody made it. For everything not in the first category, state what still needs to happen, who needs to decide, and by when. Then name the single most consequential thing that everyone will believe was agreed but was not. Meeting record:
Making it yours
- Paste your own material where the prompt asks for it. Everything above that line is instruction, not content.
- Delete any rule that does not apply to you. A shorter prompt that fits beats a thorough one that does not.
- If the answer comes back vague, add a line saying what you do not want. Constraints work better than encouragement.
Decisions and actions. Pulling what was settled and who owes what out of a set of notes, and catching what was not.
Related prompts
Turn messy notes into decisions and actionsThe default pass on any notes you took while half-listening.Turn this meeting into a decision recordAfter a meeting where something important was settled and will be questioned later.Capture the open questionsAt the end of a discussion, to make sure nothing unresolved gets lost.Actions onlyThe fastest useful pass on any set of meeting notes.Decisions onlyWhen you need to know what was settled, not what was discussed.What was not decided?After a meeting that felt productive but settled less than it seemed.
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