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Summarize a doc into decisions & actions

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Summarize the document below for someone who has 60 seconds. I care about decisions and actions, not a recap.

DOCUMENT:
"""
{paste meeting notes / thread / report}
"""

Produce, in this order:
1. The bottom line — 2 sentences a busy person could act on.
2. Decisions made (bullet each, with who owns it if stated).
3. Open questions / unresolved tensions.
4. Action items — each as "[owner] will [action] by [when]", marking any that are unassigned.
5. Anything important that was implied but not said outright.

If the document doesn't actually contain decisions or actions, say so instead of inventing them.

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{paste meeting notes / thread / report}

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when to use it

Most summaries recap; this one extracts what changes because of the document. Section 4's forced '[owner] will [action] by [when]' format surfaces the unassigned action items that quietly fall through the cracks. Section 5 catches the political subtext in meeting notes that a literal summary misses. The 'say so instead of inventing' guard is important — long threads often contain zero real decisions, and you want to know that.