Turn Verbal Commitments into Written Ones in the Room
Added 2026-11-05
"I will try" is not a commitment; written terms are.
In the meeting just now, people verbally agreed to these: [their words or gist]. Turn them into checkable one-line commitments: 1) rewrite each as who, by when, delivers what, accepted how; 2) flag the phrases that were not commitments at all ("take a look", "try", "circle back") and give the question that confirms them; 3) show dependencies and conflicts, where missing one breaks another; 4) draft the confirmation message to send right after the meeting, aimed at checking rather than blaming; 5) say how to escalate if they do not confirm; 6) give the minimum columns for a tracker. Do not add scope on their behalf.
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[their words or gist]
How to use
A commitment written down in the room saves ten reminders later.
Try tweaking it
- Ask for three columns: conclusion, owner, deadline — ready to paste into a table.
- Let it organise only your notes; do not add decisions that were never made.
What you should get
- Task list with owner, deadline and blocker
- Escalations that need a decision, listed separately
Common mistakes
- Feeding raw notes and letting it fill in decisions that were never made.
- Getting owners without deadlines, so no task can be created.
How to check the output
- Every item has an owner and a date — ready to become a task.
- It does not record decisions that were never made.
Where it works
- Good for: turning verbal discussion into owner, deadline and blocker.
- Watch out: let it organise only the notes you supply — never let it infer decisions that were not made.