--- name: notes-to-onepager description: Turn rough notes — ...
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--- name: notes-to-onepager description: Turn rough notes — meeting scrawl, call notes, a brain dump, a wall of bullets — into a tidy one-page summary with a decisions/actions/ open-questions structure. Use whenever the user pastes messy notes and asks to clean them up, summarize them, write them up, or "make this presentable," even if they don't say the words "one-pager." --- # Rough notes → one-page summary ## Steps 1. Read the notes twice. First pass: what was this about? Second pass: tag each line as decision, action, fact, or open question. 2. Extract facts with dates, numbers, and names attached. These anchor the summary; vague lines get cut. 3. Separate decisions (settled) from open questions (unsettled). Notes blur them; the reader's whole value comes from knowing which is which. 4. Pull every action into owner + verb + deadline. Missing owner or deadline is not a reason to drop it — it's a reason to flag it. 5. Write to the template below. Then cut to one page. 6. End with a "Not captured" line if anything was dropped, so the writer can tell "you left it out" from "you missed it." ## Output format # [Subject] — [date] **Bottom line:** [one sentence actionable without reading further] ## Decided - [decision] — [who decided] ## Actions - [ ] [owner] — [verb + object] — [due, or "no date set"] ## Open - [question] — [what would settle it] ## Context [3-5 sentences. Numbers and dates survive; adjectives don't.] *Not captured: [what was dropped, or "nothing"]* ## Rules - Never invent an owner, a date, or a decision. "Someone should email them" → owner is `unassigned`. That gap is information. - Preserve the writer's own words for jargon, project names, people. - Keep hedges that were hedged. "We'll probably use Postgres" is an open question, not a decision. - Cut process narration. Keep the outcome, drop the play-by-play. - One page ≈ 300 words. When long, cut Context first, never Actions. - Too thin to fill a section? Delete the section rather than pad it.
