It's no secret that meetings take up valuable time and energy, but they are a necessary part of doing business. However, with the right tools, you can make your meetings more efficient and productive. In this article, you'll learn how to use ChatGPT to summarize meeting notes, help you identify key decisions, and create the next meeting agenda. Plus, learn a new tool that can simplify and automate your meeting notes.

What is ChatGPT?

ChatGPT is a natural language processing (NLP) platform that enables real-time conversations between users and AI-powered digital assistants. ChatGPT understands user requests, remembers the context of past conversations, and provides personalized answers to each user’s questions.

Most people use ChatGPT to write social media posts, create outlines for blog posts, and even write simple code. I even used it to write a fun poem as part of my daughter's birthday invitation card! There are so many ways to use it to simplify and automate daily tasks even outside of work.

If you're a project manager or freelancer working on multiple projects, you most likely have dozens of meeting each week. According to a Dialpad survey in 2022, remote professionals spend 2-4 hours daily in virtual meetings. This doesn't even include the time you spend preparing the agenda and creating presentations before the meeting. 

You also have to spend more time creating action items after the meeting. And if you missed a meeting, you'll still spend time watching the recording or reading the transcript.

So, how can ChatGPT help you save time?

‍Create a Meeting Summary

The first and easiest way ChatGPT can help is to summarize the transcript of your meeting. You most likely know everything you've said. But when there are multiple attendees, it can be hard to track who said what. You can read the full transcript, but that takes a lot of time! 

Did you know that an hour-long meeting can have 8000 to 15,000 words on the transcript? It will take you approximately 20 minutes to read 8000 words!

But not if you're using AI tools like ChatGPT.

Here's how you can summarize your meetings using ChatGPT:

1. Download the transcript of your video meeting.
2. Copy and paste the transcript on chatGPT.
3. Use the command "Summarize the meeting notes."
4. Click "Enter" to start the chat.
5. Wait for the response.

Here's a summary of my most recent meeting from ChatGPT:

Using ChatGPT to summarize the transcript of my meetings has been a game changer! It saves me time and reminds me to stay focused on the most important pieces of information.

Help Make Decisions

One of the most common goals of meetings is to make decisions. As a remote team, you usually need to get all the ideas, deliberate the pros and cons, and make the best decisions with the data you have.

During long meetings, however, it can be hard to keep track of which ideas you need to decide on. So, after summarizing the most important points, make sure to identify the decisions that have been made.

You can do the same flow with summarizing the meeting but with a slightly different command.

1. Paste the transcript on ChatGPT.
2. Use "identify key decisions in the transcript" and hit "Enter."

Here's what ChatGPT spit out using the same transcript:

It's amazing that ChatGPT was able to identify which topic was unclear! You can play around with the commands, so you can get the best answer based on your needs.

Once you have the decisions, you can turn them into action items! Without action items and clear deadlines, your meetings would have been a meaningless exercise.

Identify Action Items and Agenda for the Next Meeting

So, how can you ask ChatGPT to identify the action items? You guessed it. It's the same process!

1. Paste the transcript on ChatGPT.
2. Use "What are the key action items in the meeting?"

Again, you'll want to play around with the words and questions here. For example:

1. Did [Name of the Attendee] mention what she will send after the call?
2. Identify the summary of all Notion mentions in the transcript.

Think of ChatGPT as your personal assistant. But an AI is 100% honest! It will tell you if it doesn't know the answer.

Here's ChatGPT's answer when I asked for the potential agenda for the next meeting:

A Better ChatGPT Alternative to Simplify Meeting Summaries

Okay, so you now have unlocked a new AI skill and saved hours each week to keep up with meeting notes.

But as you can see, there is still some manual work involved. You'll have to paste the transcript, ask the right questions, and choose the best answers.

What if all that workflow happens automatically?

Then, you'll love Tactiq. Tactiq is a real-time transcription tool for Google Meet, Zoom, MS Teams, and Webex. It also:

• Creates a full transcript with the speaker names.
• Automatically highlights important sentences.
• Easily collaborate after the meeting by tagging teammates in the transcript.

Tactiq is perfect for remote marketing and recruitment teams who spend a lot of time in meetings and coordinating with multiple stakeholders.

But that's not even the best part. Tactiq has ChatGPT built-in so that you can automatically get...

• Summaries
• Action Items
• Next Meeting Agenda

...alongside the transcript. It's taking meeting notes to a whole new level! You can join the private beta waitlist to be one of the first to use this feature.

But you can start using Tactiq now to simplify all of your meeting notes.

How to Start Using Tactiq

Using Tactiq is super simple. Here’s how:

1. Install Tactiq on Chrome for free.
2. Connect your video meeting tool under Integrations.
3. Turn on all permissions for generating captions and transcriptions in the meeting on Zoom.
4. Join your meetings as usual. The Tactiq window will appear in the lower right corner, where you'll see the real-time transcript.
5. You can highlight any sentence manually or let auto highlights take over.

You'll see all of the highlights in the transcript after the call. Tactiq is free for up to 10 meetings per month. 

The Future of AI in Meetings

ChatGPT is an amazing tool for quickly identifying key decisions and action items in a meeting. With its intuitive AI capabilities, it can help you save valuable time and energy when it comes to summarizing meetings, leaving you with more productive time to focus on other tasks.

And if you want to take your meeting notes to the next level, try out Tactiq's ChatGPT-powered meeting platform. It automatically generates summaries, highlights important sentences in the transcript, and tags teammates for easy collaboration after the call. Tactiq makes it easier for teams to stay organized without spending hours on manual work!