Minutes are not a transcript: they are the decisions and the action items, in a form somebody can read in two minutes. Here is the structure that works, and how a recording plus a transcript gets you most of the way there.
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Skip the old workflowNobody agrees to take minutes, so the meeting ends with no record and the decisions get re-litigated next week.
Somebody does take minutes, but they are a rambling page of half-sentences and nobody can tell what was actually decided.
I spend the whole meeting typing instead of listening, and I still miss the two sentences that mattered.
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The most common mistake with meeting minutes is treating them as a transcript. A transcript is what was said; minutes are what the meeting decided and who is doing what about it. Nobody re-reads a transcript, but a good set of minutes is the document people search for three weeks later when they need to know whether the deadline was agreed. The structure that survives contact with real meetings is small: date and attendees, the decisions with the reasoning behind them, the action items with a named owner and a date, and anything explicitly deferred. Everything else is optional. Where AI genuinely helps is the part before the writing. Upload the recording and you get a timestamped transcript, which means you are editing rather than typing — you can skim, quote the exact phrasing of a decision, jump to the moment a number was mentioned, and check what someone actually said before you attribute it. It also means the source is preserved: if a minute is disputed, the recording answers it. What AI will not do for you is decide which sentences matter, know that an informal 'let us go with the second option' was in fact a decision, or fix a name it misheard. Count on reading the transcript once and writing the minutes yourself, in a fraction of the time it takes from a cold start. Pricing is 1 credit per minute of audio, 20 credits free at sign-up.
The transcript arrives with sentence breaks and timestamps, so writing minutes becomes reading, cutting and quoting — which is the part that actually needs a human.
With a timestamp on every line you can quote the exact wording of a decision and show where it was made, which is what makes minutes citable instead of arguable.
The transcript is yours, independent of the meeting platform — it survives a deleted cloud recording and a lapsed plan, which matters when a decision is questioned months later.
Capture the meeting (any recording works), then write a short structured document: date and attendees, decisions with the reasoning, action items with a named owner and a date, and anything formally deferred. The fastest route is to transcribe the recording first — 1 credit per minute of audio, 20 credits free at sign-up — and edit the minutes out of the transcript instead of taking notes live.
A transcript is a complete, timestamped record of what was said. Minutes are a short summary of what the meeting decided and who is responsible. Transcripts are for verification and search; minutes are for the people who were not there. In practice you keep the transcript and send the minutes.
It can do the transcription reliably, which removes the typing. The judgement is still yours: deciding which remarks were decisions, naming the owner of each action item, and correcting misheard names and numbers. Treat the transcript as a very good first read, not as finished minutes.
Do not count on speaker labels — attribute the lines yourself while reading. Being able to see each line with a timestamp and the surrounding context usually makes attribution quick, and it is more accurate than a guess from the model.
You can write minutes from memory, but a recording is what lets you quote decisions exactly and check what was actually said. If recording needs consent in your jurisdiction or organisation, ask at the start of the meeting — that is a one-line housekeeping item, not a reason to skip the record.
Any meeting you can get as a file: Zoom and Google Meet local recordings, Teams exports, phone recordings, webinar recordings, or a mic in the room. Meeting audio is the hard case for accuracy, so names and jargon will need a pass — but overlapping speech stays readable in a transcript in a way it never is in a live note-taking race.
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