Free meeting notes template
Decisions and action items first, everything else after. In Word, or Markdown for Notion, Obsidian and friends.
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Free to use and change for your own work. No email or sign-up needed.
What’s inside
- Meeting details: name, date and time, attendees and note taker.
- Agenda, numbered.
- Decisions, near the top, where people will look.
- Action items in a table with owner and due date.
- Notes and open questions.
- Next meeting date and topics to pick up.
It covers everything good meeting minutes need, without the formality.
How to use it
- Fill in the details and agenda before the meeting. Share the agenda.
- During the meeting, capture decisions and action items as they happen.
- Right after, tidy the notes and send them to everyone.
- Start the next meeting by checking the action items.
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Skip the typing
Fetch records your calls on your Windows PC with no bot, transcribes them on your computer, and writes notes with a summary, decisions and action items, using your own Claude or ChatGPT account. Your rough notes get worked in too. See Enhance your notes and How to take meeting notes without typing.
Questions people ask
What's the Markdown version for?
Markdown works in Notion, Obsidian, GitHub, many wikis and plain text editors. Paste it in and the headings, lists and table come along.
What's the most important part of meeting notes?
Decisions and action items, each with an owner and a due date. If those are clear, the meeting did its job.
Should I take notes during the meeting or after?
Jot rough notes during, and tidy up right after while it's fresh. Or record the meeting and let an app write the first draft.
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