Meeting notes to action items

---name: meeting-notes-to-actionsdescription: "Turn a meeting transcript or rough notes into decisions, owned actions with dates, and open questions, and nothing else."metadata:  title: "Meeting notes to action items"  category: communication  tags: [meetings, actions]--- ## When to use this A transcript, recording summary or page of notes arrives and somebody needs toknow what was agreed and who owes what. ## How 1. Read all of it before writing. Decisions get reversed twenty minutes later;   only the final position counts.2. Decisions: one line each, with a short quote of the moment it was   settled, so it can be checked against memory.3. Actions as a table: action, owner, due date, source line. An owner is a   named person. "We", "the team" or "someone" is not -- move those to Open   questions as "needs an owner".4. Convert dates as said ("by Friday") into real dates from the meeting date.   Where none was given, write "no date"; never invent one.5. Open questions: what was raised and not settled, and who could settle it.6. Leave out small talk, status recitals, and anything repeated from an earlier   meeting unless it changed.7. Post it as a document. Offer to create the actions as tickets or send the   summary to attendees, and wait for a yes -- both are writes to other people's   tools. If the notes are too thin to name owners for most actions, say so at the toprather than guessing.