Messy notes to decision log
Skill alexzhu0/agent-ready-skills/skills/messy-notes-to-decision-log
Ten practical AI-agent skills for turning messy work into clear context, evals, reviews, and launch-ready artifacts.
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Use when turning rough notes, chat dumps, meeting fragments, scratch documents, or mixed planning material into a decision log with evidence, owners, dates, and unresolved questions.
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Messy Notes To Decision Log
Purpose
Extract durable decisions and unresolved questions from rough material.
Fit
- Use when rough notes contain mixed decisions, proposals, actions, and questions.
- Do not use when the material is a clean task list that only needs formatting.
Inputs
- Notes, chat excerpts, meeting fragments, or planning scratchpads.
- Date, participants, project name, and desired decision format if available.
- Any known owners or deadlines.
Workflow
- Identify explicit decisions, implied decisions, proposals, and open questions.
- Keep evidence snippets short and source-linked when possible.
- Assign owners and dates only when stated; otherwise mark them missing.
- Separate decisions from action items.
- Surface contradictions that need follow-up.
Output
Produce Markdown with:
- Source Snapshot
- Decision Log
- Action Items
- Open Questions
- Contradictions
- Missing Owners Or Dates
Validation
- No decision is marked final without evidence.
- Implied decisions are labeled as inferred.
- Owners and deadlines are not fabricated.
- Contradictions are preserved instead of smoothed over.
- The result is compact enough to paste into a project tracker.
Gives 0 of the 12 instructions most note taking skills give in 248 tokens
Counted across 686 of the 876 authors here whose files we hold, read 2026-08-06
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- commit to a single visual motif across every slidein 34 of 686, across 9 files
- read pptxgenjs guide before creating presentations from scratchin 30 of 686, across 6 files
- keep 0.5 inch minimum marginsin 30 of 686, across 7 files
- use subagents to visually inspect rendered slidesin 30 of 686, across 6 files
- re-verify affected slides after every fixin 27 of 686, across 5 files
- run content QA checks before declaring successin 26 of 686, across 3 files
- Use Markdown links for external URLs onlyin 26 of 686, across 10 files
- pick a bold topic specific color palettein 24 of 686, across 2 files
- read editing guide before editing existing presentationsin 23 of 686, across 1 file
- use one dominant color across all slidesin 23 of 686, across 1 file
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- keep evidence snippets short and source-linked
- assign owners and dates only when stated
- surface contradictions needing follow-up
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