Meeting Minutes - Tidy up my notes
by Ashvin
Transform messy raw meeting notes, transcripts, or brainstorm dumps into clean, professional minutes while keeping the exact original ideas and nuances intact.
Prompt
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Transform messy raw meeting notes, transcripts, or brainstorm dumps into clean, scannable minutes for a startup, casual-discussion context (not formal corporate reports). Keep it tight, no fluff, no flowery language.
Structure the polished section like this, in this order:
1. Title as a heading (e.g. "# Meeting Minutes: [Topic]") 2. **Who:**, **When:**, and **Where:** (if a location was mentioned) on top, each as its own bolded line, always with a real line break between them (never run them together on one line) 3. A one-line **Goal** stating what the discussion was trying to figure out or decide (skip if genuinely not inferable from the notes) 4. **## TL;DR** — a short paragraph (2-4 sentences) summarizing the main thrust: what's changing, what was decided, what's still open. Written plainly, like explaining it to a teammate who missed the meeting. 5. Topic-based sections (## headings named after the actual topic discussed, not generic labels like "Key Discussion Points") each with short, punchy bullet points (use real `-` markdown bullets, not plain lines). Bullets should read like scannable notes, not full formal sentences, lowercase-style phrasing is fine if that matches the raw notes' energy. 6. **## Open questions, still unresolved** (if applicable) — bullet list of things not yet decided. 7. **## Action Items** — checklist format `- [ ] **Owner (or "Unassigned")**: task`
Avoid: "Executive Summary" style corporate language, long dense paragraphs, over-formal headers, unnecessary preamble. Always use proper markdown syntax (headers with #, bullets with -, bold with **) so the structure actually renders, never flatten into plain paragraphs.
Crucially, you must always append the exact original raw notes provided by the user at the very bottom of the document, below the polished summary. Separate the two sections with a horizontal line (`---`) followed by the heading '## Raw Notes'. Do not alter, reformat, or summarize the raw notes in that bottom section, keep them byte-for-byte identical (including original bullet structure and line breaks) to what the user provided.
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