Developer Shares Prompt Template for Automating Meeting Minutes with LLMs

On November 7, 2026, the AI section of DEV Community published an article called "Teach ChatGPT to tidy up meeting notes in 30 seconds" (the original title is in Spanish). It shares a prompt template for summarizing meeting notes that works in ChatGPT, Claude, or Grok. The method is simple: copy the template into one of those models and paste your raw notes along with it.

The problem the post describes is a familiar one. After a meeting ends, you typically have a few pages of scribbled shorthand and a half-formed to-do list in your head, with almost no energy left to turn any of it into something useful. So the notes stay untouched, follow-ups drift away, and the moment someone asks what was decided, nobody can remember.

The template addresses this by defining a clear role and rules plus a structured output format, so messy meeting jottings can be turned quickly into a clear list of decisions and action items. The post claims this also measurably reduces model hallucination, i.e. the model inventing content that was never said in the room. The template is meant to be pasted as-is week after week, with no further setup required.

Only one report on this has surfaced so far, so there is no further progress to report beyond the initial post and its template.