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Summarize weekly meeting notes into decisions and themes
Turn a messy section of raw OneNote meeting notes into a short summary of what was decided and why.
Business Outcome
Anyone catching up on a missed meeting gets the decisions and reasoning in under a minute instead of reading raw notes.
Workflow Overview
Pick whichever of these AI tools you have — they're alternatives, not a sequence.
OneNote
ChatGPT
Claude
CopilotCopilot works differently from the others: with a paid Microsoft 365 Copilot license it's built right into the app above, no copy-pasting needed. Without a license, use it the same way as ChatGPT or Claude — in its own chat window.
Step 1: Select the section to summarizeOneNote
Open the OneNote page with this week's raw meeting notes and select the section covering the meeting you want summarized.
Step 2: Ask Copilot to extract decisions and themesCopilotChatGPTClaude
Paste the selected section in full, including the messy parts, rather than cleaning it up yourself first — ask explicitly for what was decided versus what was merely discussed, since that's the one distinction worth getting right in an otherwise quick task.
Prompt idea:
Summarize this section into what was decided, why, and any recurring themes across the notes. Keep it to a short paragraph plus a bulleted list of decisions.
Step 3: Check the summary against the raw notesOneNote
Read the summary next to the original notes. Confirm each listed decision was actually made in the meeting and not just discussed as an option.
Step 4: Drop the summary at the top of the pageOneNote
Paste the confirmed summary above the raw notes so anyone skimming the page gets the outcome first, with the detail still available below.
Check the work
- Confirm every decision in the summary traces back to an explicit statement in the notes.
- Watch for the AI treating a proposed idea as a finalized decision — flag and fix it if it did.
- Check that the "why" behind each decision matches the actual reasoning discussed, not a plausible-sounding guess.
Source: Solving Microsoft 365, "Copilot in OneNote" guide (2026)
Expected Outcome
A short summary block added to the notebook page listing what was decided and the reasoning behind it.
✓
AI is the right call here
Telling a decision apart from an option that was just discussed takes reading comprehension, not a formula — that's the one real judgment call in an otherwise quick, low-stakes task.
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