Actions with owners, out of the noise
Lesson 2 of 6 · Minutes & Actions
1 · Learn the move · Enhance the Output
An action without an owner is a wish, and an action without a source line is unverifiable six weeks later when somebody says they never agreed to it. Four columns, always: owner, action, due date, and the transcript line that created it. That last column is the one people skip and the one that saves you. No owner stated means the row reads [NEEDS: owner], never "the team." No date said out loud means [NEEDS: due date]. You chase the blanks. The AI doesn't fill them.
Pull the action items out of this transcript into one table: Owner | Action | Due | Source line. Source line is the verbatim quote that created the row, with the speaker. No owner stated renders [NEEDS: owner], never "the team." No date stated renders [NEEDS: due date], never "soon." Discussion that produced no action doesn't get a row. Sort by due date, undated rows last. [paste transcript]
2 · Your turn. You write the prompt
Angela's leadership meeting ran 74 minutes and produced somewhere between four and nine actions depending on who you ask. The tracker needs rows tonight and one of the owners will push back on his. Write a prompt that builds the table so the pushback lands on the transcript instead of on you.
Remember: the AI sees only your prompt, not this page. If the situation isn't in your prompt, it doesn't exist.
Optional. These shape the output when you run your prompt below, not your score.