Make sense of your meeting notes

You come away from a meeting with a page full of half sentences. There’s an idea somebody liked, a task someone offered to do, and a date that might have been agreed. When you open the notes later, the three look equally certain.

Take just three lines and mark each one as confirmed, proposed or unclear. Try it on these fictional notes: “Send the draft Tuesday. Jess might check the wording. Ask about venue access.” The first is a recorded action. The second is tentative. The third is a question to follow up. There’s no confirmed owner for the first action in those notes, so leave that blank.

If you use AI, ask it to keep tentative details visible and point to the text behind each decision. Check important names and dates against your notes yourself. Your first win is one verified next step that you can safely put in your calendar or send to the group.