Turn a Long Thread into a Decision
Added 2026-10-31
Extract the disagreement, each position and the decidable question.
Below is a long email thread. Do: 1) summarise the actual disagreement in three sentences; 2) list each position — who, what they argue, what they care about most; 3) point out what everyone already agrees on; 4) reduce the discussion to one yes/no question; 5) draft a message to the decision maker with that question and two options.
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How to use
邮件串的终点不是共识，是一个能拍板的问题。
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.