What to Write Right After a Decision Meeting
Added 2026-11-03
Decision, reasoning, actions and review point — out within ten minutes.
I just finished a decision meeting (notes below). Write a post-meeting note I can send within ten minutes: 1) what was decided in one sentence; 2) the reasoning in two or three points; 3) who does what by when; 4) what signal would reopen the discussion; 5) open questions that still need follow-up. Requirements: no narrative of the discussion, no commentary on who said what, two lines maximum per item.
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How to use
决策记录的价值在「下次有人问为什么时，不用重开一次会」。
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.