From voice memo to task rows
Lesson 1 of 6 · The Master List
1 · Learn the move · Context + audience
Your executive talks in paragraphs and your list needs rows. AI does that conversion well, but only if you say who is talking, what the meeting was, and who the names belong to, because "get with legal on the Corvia thing" means nothing to a machine that has never met your legal contact. Then add the rule that makes it safe: only what was said. If they didn't say when, the date column reads [NEEDS: date], not "next week." Half a voice memo is thinking out loud, and thinking out loud is not a task.
Here is a voice memo transcript from [who], recorded after [what]. Names you will hear: [list, with roles]. Turn it into task rows: task, owner, due, source quote. Only what was said. No date stated means [NEEDS: date]. Never merge two instructions into one row or split one into two. [transcript]
2 · Your turn. You write the prompt
Marcus left a three-minute voice memo from the car after Tuesday's Corvia meeting. It has about nine instructions in it, three names you know, one you have never heard, and one sentence that trails off into road noise. Write a prompt that turns it into rows without the AI tidying up what he actually said.
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.