Task guide · beginner · 10 minutes

Turn rough notes into a clear update

Shape scattered notes into a concise update without losing factual control or your own voice.

Situation: You have meeting notes, half-finished bullets and a deadline, but the reader was not in the room.
Finished outcome: A short update organised around decisions, progress, blockers and next steps.

The complete workflow

Understand the hand-off before opening a product.

The reading order remains useful without the visual layout: person, AI, review, result.

01 · person
You provide
Rough notes, audience and purpose.
02 · ai
AI helps
An organised draft with uncertainty marked.
03 · review
You check
Facts, priorities, sensitive detail and tone.
04 · result
Finished result
A human-approved update ready to send.

AI helps with

A useful first pass

Groups repeated themes
Organises a first draft
Marks missing information instead of filling it in

You bring

Context and responsibility

Facts, names and dates
What matters to this audience
Tone and permission to share

Worked example

See where the draft changes.

The correction is the core teaching moment, not an optional warning after the result.

01 · Input

What the person provides

Client liked option B. Launch maybe 22nd. Sam waiting on price. Login bug still there. Need photos from Jess.

02 · AI draft

The useful first pass

Decision: proceed with option B. Progress: client direction confirmed. Blockers: supplier price and unresolved login bug. Next: Sam to confirm price; Jess to supply photos; launch date remains [CHECK].

03 · Human correction

Facts and judgement

The project lead confirms the 24th, uses the client’s actual wording and removes the internal login issue from the external version.

04 · Final result

Human-approved outcome

Decision: The client selected option B. Progress: Direction is confirmed and launch is scheduled for the 24th. Blocker: Supplier pricing is outstanding. Next: Sam confirms pricing and Jess provides photos.

Try it

Use your own material.

Remove anything you cannot share, replace the bracketed details and keep the checking step.

Do not upload information you are not permitted to share.
Do not use an unchecked draft as an exact formal record.

Turn the notes below into an update for [audience]. Organise it under decisions, progress, blockers and next steps. Keep it under [length]. Do not invent missing facts. Mark anything uncertain as [CHECK]. Preserve my tone as [tone description]. Notes: [paste notes]

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