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Recipe: meeting notes into action items

Give Hermes your rough meeting notes and get back a clear list of who does what by when, the open points nobody owns, and a follow-up email ready to send.
Time needed 3 minutes
You need A Hermes agent connected to an AI model and your notes as a text file (or pasted in the chat)
Result An action table, a list of open points and a draft email, saved in a file

1. Give Hermes the notes

Upload the notes to FILES → workspace (see Hermes reads a contract for you), or simply paste them in the chat.

Our test notes were six lines from a bakery team meeting: Christmas orders, a new oven, late hotel deliveries, Instagram, the flour contract and the next meeting date.

2. Ask for the actions

In CHAT:

Read workspace/meeting-notes.txt. Give me a table of action items (who, what, deadline), list anything without a clear deadline, and write a short follow-up email to the team in English. Save it all in workspace/meeting-actions.md.

  1. Hermes builds the table: who, what and the deadline, exactly as in the notes. When the notes are vague ("from Monday", "in 2 weeks"), it shows the words from the notes and its guess in brackets.
  2. Under Without a clear deadline or owner, it lists what the team still has to decide, for example a task with no owner, or a check with no date.

Hermes turns notes into actions

The follow-up email is in the file meeting-actions.md, signed by the manager. Hermes said what it had added on its own (a line asking the baker to report if the oven gets worse) so you can delete it. It does not send the email: you copy it.

Check that it worked

Compare the table with your notes: every action, name and date should be there. In our test, every point of the notes was covered (the next meeting date went into the email), and the guesses were clearly marked.

Make it yours

  • "Send me the action list on Telegram every Monday until the next meeting" (see Schedule a recurring task).
  • "Write the email in Portuguese."
  • Paste a long email thread instead of notes: "What was decided, and what is still open?"

Common problems

Hermes made up a deadline

It shows guesses in brackets, as in our test. If one is wrong, tell it the right date and ask for the table again.

Next steps