How does the formatter decide what is a decision?

By cue: ten explicit labels such as Decision: and Resolution:, then twelve decision phrases including we decided, we agreed and signed off. The cue that matched is printed next to the item, so any placement can be checked and overruled by reading the note itself.

Why are some of my action items left unclassified?

Because they were written without a cue from the published list. Priya takes the migration is an action to a reader but not to a cue scan. Those sentences stay in the unclassified section rather than being guessed at, and the page shows the full cue list so you can see what would have matched.

Are the owner and due date extracted reliably?

No, and they are labelled as suggestions with a question mark. Two narrow patterns are used — owner: followed by a name, and a capitalised name directly before will — plus by/due/before for a date phrase. Confirm both before circulating the summary.

Where are my meeting notes stored?

In this browser's local storage, so a refresh does not lose them. Nothing is uploaded and no server is involved; clearing this browser's site data removes the notes. The page states this beside the editor.

Can it handle notes pasted from a transcript?

It can, with two caveats. Transcripts split into many short sentences, which suits the cue scan, but speaker labels and filler will land in the unclassified section, and a quoted speaker can make a suggestion look like a decision. Treat the output as a first sort to edit.

Meeting Summary Formatter

Your notes

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Paste or type the raw notes

Your notes stay in this browser and are never uploaded. There is no account and no server: clearing this browser’s storage removes them.

Scan result

Paste meeting notes above — decisions, actions and questions are sorted as you type.

What is checked, and what is assumed

11 explicit labels (Action:, Decision:, TBD:) are checked first, then 19 action cues, 12 decision cues and 6 question cues, and finally a trailing question mark. Owner and due date are two small patterns — owner: X and X will …, or by Friday — and are marked with a question mark because they are suggestions to confirm.

A cue list is not comprehension. An action written without a cue ("Priya takes the migration") stays unclassified, and a sentence that merely mentions a decision word can be sorted wrongly. Every item shows the cue that placed it, so correcting a section is a matter of reading the cue — and the unclassified list is always shown, so nothing is silently discarded.

The meeting summary formatter sorts raw meeting notes into decisions, actions and open questions using a published cue list, prints the cue that placed each sentence, and keeps the unclassified lines visible instead of discarding them.

What is Meeting Summary Formatter?

Meeting notes are usually a stream: what was mentioned, what was agreed, what someone promised to do. This meeting summary formatter sorts that stream into three sections — decisions, actions and open questions — using a cue list you can read, and it prints the cue beside every item so a wrong placement is obvious at a glance. Sentences that carry no cue are kept together in an unclassified section rather than being dropped, because the notes are the record, not the formatter's output.

The order of judgement is fixed and documented. Ten explicit labels are checked first (Action:, Action item:, Next step:, To do:, Decision:, Decided:, Resolution:, Question:, Open question:, TBD:), then 19 action cues, 12 decision cues and 6 question cues, and finally a sentence that simply ends in a question mark. A sentence lands in exactly one section: an action written as Action: we agreed to postpone... is an action, because the label wins. Owner and due date are extracted by two small patterns — owner: Priya, or a name directly before will — and both are tagged with a question mark in the interface, because they are suggestions to confirm rather than facts.

The report is built for pasting into a follow-up message. Decisions, actions and open questions are laid out as three labelled sections with numbered items; each action carries its suggested owner and due date when the patterns fired; and the cue for each item is printed underneath in small type. The counts appear at the top — how many sentences were read, how many decisions, actions and questions were found — and the unclassified list comes last, so nothing in the notes is invisible.

What the cue list cannot do matters as much as what it can. Actions written without a cue (Priya takes the migration) stay unclassified; a sentence that mentions the word decision without deciding anything is not sorted as a decision, but a sentence with an ambiguous cue can still be misplaced. Phrases such as needs to appear in ordinary descriptive sentences as well as in assignments. The tool has no idea who was speaking, what was quoted from someone else, or which of two competing statements was the final one. It is a sorting aid over sentences you wrote, not a minute-taker and not a comprehension system.

Notes that are merely reformatted do not help anyone follow up, which is the test this tool is aimed at. Action items are lifted out with the cue beside them, so the follow-up message can be assembled from the sorted list without re-reading the whole transcript. Decisions read the same way: one recorded with a cue sits at the top of the summary, while anything ambiguous stays in the unclassified list for review. Nothing is deleted and nothing is summarised away, and the three counts give an immediate sense of whether the meeting actually decided anything.

Your notes stay in this browser. They are saved to local storage so a refresh does not lose them — the page says so, and clearing browser data removes them — and nothing is uploaded, sent or logged. There is no account and no server, and the copy and download buttons are the only way the summary leaves the page.

How to use Meeting Summary Formatter

Paste the raw notes; the three sections fill in as you type.
Use one idea per sentence where you can — the sort works on sentences, not paragraphs.
Read each item's cue tag and move anything the cue list placed wrongly.
Check the unclassified section for actions that were written without a cue.
Copy or download the summary and confirm each owner and due date, which are suggestions only.

When to use Meeting Summary Formatter vs related tools

Use this formatter when the material is notes and the output is a follow-up list. When the material is a finished document and the output is a brief, the Executive Summary Builder extracts a bottom line and findings instead.

When the notes need to become a balanced paragraph rather than a sorted list, the Text Summarizer is the extractive option, and if the following session needs a timed writing block, the Writing Sprint Timer covers the other half of the workflow.

Privacy & Security

This tool runs entirely in your browser — no data ever leaves your device. There is no server round-trip, no upload, no logging, and no account required. Your input is processed locally using client-side JavaScript and is never stored, transmitted, or accessible to anyone else. When you close the tab, everything disappears.