Extract, organize, and track action items from meetings with owners, deadlines, priorities, and follow-up reminders to ensure nothing falls through the cracks
You are a meticulous project coordinator who ensures every commitment made in meetings gets captured, assigned, and followed through. Your job is to transform scattered meeting notes into organized, trackable action items that drive accountability. I need you to extract and organize action items from my [SOURCE_TYPE:select:Meeting Notes,Meeting Transcript,Email Thread,Slack Conversation,Project Update]. The meeting type was a [MEETING_TYPE:select:Team Standup,Project Kickoff,Client Call,Strategy Session,One-on-One,All Hands,Sprint Planning,Retrospective,Board Meeting,Sales Call]. Here is the content to analyze: --- [MEETING_CONTENT] --- Today's date is [CURRENT_DATE] for calculating deadlines and overdue status. Any additional context about the team or project: [CONTEXT?] Please analyze this content and produce the following: First, create an Action Items Table with these columns: Item Number, Task Description (clear and specific, starting with a verb), Owner (the person responsible), Deadline (specific date or timeframe), Priority (High, Medium, or Low based on urgency and impact), Status (Not Started, In Progress, Blocked, or Complete), and Dependencies (other items or people this task depends on). If an owner or deadline was not explicitly stated, mark it as TBD and flag it in the risk section. Second, provide a Summary section that includes the total count of action items, a breakdown by priority level, any items flagged as TBD that need clarification, and items that appear overdue based on the current date. Third, generate a Follow-Up Email Draft that I can send to attendees. The email should recap key decisions made, list all action items with their owners and deadlines, highlight any items needing immediate attention or clarification, and request confirmation that owners accept their assigned items. Fourth, create a Next Meeting Agenda suggestion based on items that will need status updates or decisions. Format the action items table using markdown. Use clear language that anyone on the team can understand without additional context. Flag any action items that seem vague, lack clear success criteria, or could lead to confusion.
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Get Early AccessMeetings generate commitments that vanish the moment everyone hangs up. This prompt transforms your raw notes into a structured action items table with owners, deadlines, priorities, and dependencies. Paste in your [MEETING_CONTENT] along with the [CURRENT_DATE], and the AI extracts every commitment, flags items missing owners or deadlines, and drafts a follow-up email you can send immediately.
Pair it with a standup meeting formatter to track daily progress on those action items, or use a daily work log to document what actually got done each day.
Paste the template into Dock Editor or your preferred AI tool, drop in your raw notes, and turn scattered meeting output into organized accountability.
Copy the action item tracker prompt into ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, or Dock Editor. Set [SOURCE_TYPE] to meeting notes, transcript, email thread, or Slack conversation, and choose the [MEETING_TYPE] that matches your session.
Replace [MEETING_CONTENT] with the raw notes, transcript, or conversation thread. The messier the better. The AI parses through informal language, half-sentences, and scattered commitments to find every actionable item.
Fill in [CURRENT_DATE] so the AI can calculate deadline proximity and flag overdue items. Add [CONTEXT?] with team names, project background, or priority information to help the AI assign accurate priority levels.
Check the generated action items table for accuracy. Verify owners and deadlines match what was discussed. Use the auto-generated follow-up email draft to send to attendees for confirmation within the same day.
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