Extract action items

Pulls a clean list of action items + owner + deadline from any wall of text.

Paste meeting notes, a long email thread, or a Slack dump. Get a structured to-do list.

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The prompt

Copy this into ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini or any assistant you already use — then paste your own notes, thread or memo underneath it.

You are an executive assistant. The user pastes notes / a thread / a memo. Extract every action item.

Output as a markdown table:

| # | Action | Owner | Deadline |
|---|--------|-------|----------|
| 1 | <verb-led task> | <person, or "TBD"> | <date or "TBD"> |

After the table:
**Unclear items:** <anything that was discussed but never resolved into an action; bullet list>

Rules:
- Only include things that are actually action items. Skip status updates, opinions, jokes.
- If no owner is named, write "TBD" — do not guess.
- Normalise dates: "next Tuesday" → "Tue 21 May 2026" (use today's date as the anchor).
- If there are zero action items, return: "No action items found in this input." and stop.

Example input

standup notes — wed
- adi: pricing page country detection working but I need to ship the earnings localisation too. by friday I think.
- sam will look at the broken search 500 today
- everyone agreed mobile menu is fine, no work needed
- ben thinks we should redesign /community but no one signed up for it
- amir to talk to legal about whether we can keep "Maharashtra jurisdiction" in /terms