Lab · in progress

Labs.

What labs are

Small exercises built on real workplace tasks. Each one ends with a usable artifact, not a quiz score.

Current lab · Lesson 1

Turn your meeting notes into action items

This is the part that actually builds the habit. Pick a real meeting from this week — it does not have to be long. Five messy bullet points is enough.

From Lesson 1 · Providing Better Context · 15–20 min


01

Gather your raw material

Open a recent meeting notes file. Keep it rough — the point is to give the AI something to work with, not to clean it up first.

02

Use the four-part prompt template

Copy the template from Lesson 1 · slide 6. Fill in your role, task/format, an example style, and paste your notes at the end.

03

Run the output through the checklist

Open Lesson 1 · slide 8. Check each item before you do anything with the result.

04

Iterate

If the output is close but not done, send a follow-up: "Move the Friday deadline to the top, add the owner to item 3, and remove the marketing bullet." Iteration is normal — it is not failure.

Done = the action items are ready to send.

You can paste them into Slack, your project tracker, or forward them to whoever is doing the work.

Don't have meeting notes handy?

Download a real (messy) example you can use for the lab. Open it, paste it into the template, and run the prompt.

Download sample notes

More labs coming

Each lesson ships with its own lab. Lesson 2 (iterative refinement) and Lesson 3 (email responses) will land here as those lessons go live.