The short answer
Separate proposals, disputes and decisions. Add owners and deadlines only when stated.
Try it in three steps
- Prepare notes with suggestions, agreement and unresolved discussion.
- Request categories with source sentences.
- Check that suggestions were not promoted to decisions.
A practice prompt
Before you start
This lesson focuses on decisions versus suggestions; file creation is covered in the WorkBuddy lesson.
Practice material (fictional)
1: Suggest Friday stocktake. 2: Everyone agrees to Thursday this week. 3: Confirm Lee's ownership next time.Replace placeholders in the prompt with this material, or append the material if there are no placeholders. Reading time excludes doing the exercise.
Extract explicit decisions only. Put suggestions in discussion and mark missing action owners or dates unknown: [notes].What to look for (not a recorded test result)
Thursday is a decision, Friday a proposal, and ownership unknown; mentioning Lee does not assign the task.
If it goes wrong
Being mentioned as a possible owner does not establish acceptance.
Check your result
Each decision and action traces to an original sentence.
References and scope
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