10 summarising and structuring prompts

Meeting notes, long documents, papers and multi-source material — prompts for compressing without losing the conditions. Written for ChatGPT, Claude, NotebookLM. Square brackets mark what you fill in; everything else can be pasted as it stands.

Here is a meeting transcript: [paste it].

Produce three lists:
- Decisions made, with who made them
- Actions, with owner and date — only where both were actually stated
- Open questions, with who raised them

Where an owner or date was not stated, write [not assigned]. Do not infer agreement from the absence of objection.

Write a summary of the material below in exactly this shape:

- One sentence: what this is about
- Three bullets: what it establishes
- One sentence: what should happen next

No preamble, no "this document discusses". If the material does not support a "what next", say so instead of inventing one.

<material>
[paste the material]
</material>

From the material below, list every term a newcomer would not know.

For each: the term, a one-line definition using only what the material says, and where it first appears.

Flag any term used with two different meanings in different places — that is usually the most useful thing in the list.

<material>
[paste the material]
</material>

Summarise the document below to about [length].

Every conclusion must keep the conditions attached to it. If the original says a result holds "for teams under fifty people", the summary says that too.

Afterwards, list anything you dropped that a reader might consider load-bearing.

<document>
[paste the document]
</document>

[Person and role] has to decide [decision] by [when]. They have five minutes.

Summarise the material below for that decision only. Lead with what it implies for the choice, then the evidence, then what remains unknown.

Leave out everything that is interesting but does not bear on the decision.

<material>
[paste the material]
</material>

From the text below, extract a table with these columns: [column names].

One row per [unit]. Where a value is not stated, put [not stated] — never infer it.

After the table, note any row where you had to interpret the text to fill a cell.

<text>
[paste the text]
</text>

Here is a long discussion thread: [paste it].

Produce: the question under discussion, the distinct positions taken, who holds each, what evidence was offered, and what was never addressed.

Do not report it chronologically and do not count votes. If no position was actually resolved, say so.

Here is everything that happened today: [paste updates, messages or logs].

Write a digest of at most 150 words for someone who was away. Include only what changes what they would do.

End with a line listing what you left out, so they can ask. Do not pad to fill the space.

Here are several documents about the same thing: [paste them].

Produce one account that notes, inline, where sources agree and where they conflict. Attribute every claim to its source.

Do not resolve conflicts by picking one silently. Where they disagree, say so and say which is better positioned to be right.

Summarise the paper below, including the parts that weaken it.

Cover: the question, what was done, the sample and its limits, the result, and the conditions under which it holds.

Separately, state what the paper does not show that a careless reader might think it does.

<paper>
[paste the paper or its key sections]
</paper>