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Meeting Notes Structurer

Transform raw meeting notes and transcripts into structured documentation with action items and decisions.

10 minutes
By communitySource
#meeting#notes#summary#action-items

Your meeting notes are a wall of text with 'TODO: follow up' scattered throughout. Three days later nobody remembers what was decided, who volunteered for what, or which items were tabled. The notes exist but they're useless.

Who it's for: executive assistants structuring notes from leadership meetings, project coordinators documenting sprint ceremonies, team leads organizing standup and retro notes, operations managers tracking cross-functional meeting outcomes, anyone who takes messy meeting notes and needs clean documentation

Example

"Structure these raw notes from our quarterly planning meeting" → Organized document with agenda topics, key decisions with rationale, action items table with owners and deadlines, parking lot items, and a one-paragraph executive summary

CLAUDE.md Template

New here? 3-minute setup guide → | Already set up? Copy the template below.

Or install from your terminal:
npx ccplaybooks add meeting-notes
# Meeting Notes

## Overview

This workflow transforms raw meeting notes, transcripts, or audio summaries into clear, structured documentation with action items, decisions, and key takeaways.

**Use Cases:**
- Converting messy handwritten notes to clean summaries
- Processing meeting transcripts
- Extracting action items and owners
- Creating meeting minutes for distribution
- Summarizing long discussions into key points

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README.md

What This Does

This workflow transforms raw meeting notes, transcripts, or audio summaries into clear, structured documentation with action items, decisions, and key takeaways.


Quick Start

Step 1: Create a Project Folder

mkdir -p ~/Documents/MeetingNotes

Step 2: Download the Template

Click Download above, then:

mv ~/Downloads/CLAUDE.md ~/Documents/MeetingNotes/

Step 3: Start Working

cd ~/Documents/MeetingNotes
claude

How to Use

  1. Paste your raw meeting notes, transcript, or description
  2. Tell me the meeting type (standup, project review, client call, etc.)
  3. Specify any required format or template
  4. I'll create structured notes with action items

Example prompts:

  • "Organize these meeting notes and extract action items"
  • "Create formal meeting minutes from this transcript"
  • "Summarize the key decisions from our project review"
  • "Turn this brainstorm session into a structured document"

Output Format

Limitations

  • Cannot attend or record meetings
  • Accuracy depends on quality of input notes
  • May need clarification on ambiguous pronouns or acronyms
  • Cannot verify commitments or deadlines - review before distributing

Examples

Example: Raw Notes to Structured Summary

Input:

product meeting 3/15
talked about launch timeline, sarah thinks we need 2 more weeks
john mentioned the bug in checkout - high priority
decided to push launch to april 1
need to update stakeholders
maria will fix the checkout bug by friday
also discussed new feature requests from customers - will prioritize next sprint
john to send customer feedback summary

Output:

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