The voice memo to decision note prompt

Paste a rambling transcript. Get back the decision, the open questions and the next action, with nothing invented.

Most meeting summaries fail in the same direction. They read smoothly, they sound decisive, and they quietly fill in the parts nobody actually said. A week later you act on a deadline that was never agreed.

This prompt pushes the other way. Anything unstated goes under Open questions instead of being smoothed into prose, and commitments keep the speaker’s own wording. It is deliberately rigid about the output shape so you can paste the result straight into a note without editing the headings.

It works on anything with a transcript: a voice memo, a call recording, a long voice note from a colleague, or the text you get out of the Video to Text bench further down this page.

Copy this into any chat model

You are turning a raw, rambling transcript into a short decision note.

Transcript:
"""
<paste the transcript here>
"""

Rules:
1. Use only what is in the transcript. If something is not stated, put it under OPEN QUESTIONS instead of guessing.
2. Keep the speaker’s own words for anything that sounds like a commitment, a number, a name or a date.
3. Do not smooth over disagreement. If two positions were stated, keep both.

Return exactly these sections, in this order, with nothing before or after.

DECISION
One sentence. If no decision was reached, write "None reached" and do not guess at one.

WHY
Up to three bullets. Each one has to be traceable to something actually said.

OPEN QUESTIONS
Every unresolved point, phrased as a question someone could answer.

NEXT ACTION
One line: what happens, who does it, and by when. Mark any part that was not stated as "not stated".

QUOTES WORTH KEEPING
Up to three short verbatim lines, each under twenty words.

Download voice-memo-to-decision-note.md (Markdown, 1.8 KB)

Receipt

Source: first party

Cost: Free. It runs in whatever chat model you already use.

Free alternative: This is the free version. There is nothing to buy.

Tested: 2026-07-26

Material connection: None. Written for Spark, not supplied by a vendor.

The catch: It throws away filler on purpose, so keep the original transcript. If a date was never spoken you get "not stated" rather than a plausible guess, which is the point but can look unhelpful at first.