Context is the background you hand the AI so it can answer for your situation, not a generic one. This guide explains why context matters so much, what kinds are worth giving, audience, purpose, examples, and limits, and how it helps keep the AI honest.
Meeting Notes Summariser
Turn messy meeting notes into a clean summary with clear decisions and a list of action items, so nothing important slips through the cracks.
Make it yours
Fill in the boxes and the prompt updates as you type. Then copy it and paste it into your AI tool of choice.
The subject or purpose in a few words
Paste your notes exactly as you jotted them. Typos and shorthand are fine.
Your prompt
Below are my rough notes from a meeting about the autumn product launch / weekly team catch-up. Please turn them into a clear summary. I'd like three parts: a short overview of what was discussed, a list of decisions made, and a list of action items. For each action item, note who owns it and any deadline if I mentioned one. If an owner or deadline is missing, flag it as "to confirm" so I can follow up. Here are my notes: sarah - update website by fri, budget ok, need designer...
Tips
Ask for the action items as a checklist you can tick off, and the AI will format them so they are easy to paste into your task app. If two people share a task, tell the AI to list each owner separately, which stops jobs quietly falling between people later on.
What a good result looks like
A short overview of the discussion, a clear list of decisions, and a checklist of action items with owners and deadlines, plus "to confirm" flags wherever a detail was missing.