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Extract action items

Works with ChatGPT · Claude · Copilot · Gemini

What you’ll be able to do

You can pull clear action items, owners, and deadlines from any text.

The problem

Summaries are useful, but action items move work forward.

What this skill does

Ask AI to identify actions, owners, and deadlines.

When to use it

  • You need to know who must do what next

Best for: Meetings, emails, notes, projects

Juni, the One AI Skill guide

Juni’s tip

Every useful summary should answer: what happens next?

The prompt

Main prompt
Extract action items from the text below. Create a table with action item, owner, deadline, priority, and missing information. Text: [paste text]
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Weak vs. better

✗ Weak prompt

What should I do from this?

✓ Better prompt

Extract action items from this meeting note. Include owner, deadline, priority, and missing details.

Why this works

A table turns messy information into a task list.

The move

The move: ask AI to extract action items, owners, and deadlines.

Practice task

Try it now

Paste a meeting note or email and generate an action-item table.

Self-check

  • Every action item has an owner and a deadline, or a clear gap flagged.
  • The table format makes the list scannable at a glance.
  • Items the text left vague are marked as missing information.

Common mistakes to avoid

  • Asking what should I do instead of asking for a structured extraction.
  • Accepting action items with no owners or deadlines attached.
  • Not flagging the items where the source text was unclear.

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