Turn meeting notes into a clear recap deck

A leadership video call where the workshop recap deck is on the shared screen: the decision, next steps and the 41% figure read at a glance
The same leadership call with raw workshop notes on the shared screen: twenty lines of small text, and people in the chat ask to zoom in

After the meeting

You took the notes. A bit later, the people who weren’t in the room get the outcome as a deck.

Decisions

Each decision gets its own slide.

The headline states the decision, so someone who missed the meeting reads it without digging through the notes.

A recap slide for the decision: the calendar step becomes skippable, with the user quote behind it, the sales concern, the success measure and the two-week test

Tasks

Each task gets a name and a date.

One table lists the owner and the deadline for each task, so your lead sees who is on it.

A recap slide with a table of who does what: Dan ships the skip button by the 14th, Maya rewrites the step 1 copy by Friday

Open questions

Open questions stay open, in plain sight.

If a question left the meeting without an owner, the deck says so and names the person to ask.

A recap slide with the open question “Who owns the email reminder?”, the line from the notes and the next step: ask Lena

Numbers

The number behind a decision stays with it.

The figure that settled the argument sits next to the decision it explains.

A recap slide with the onboarding funnel as a bar chart and a large number block: 41% leave at “Connect calendar”

Raw notes

Half-sentences and question marks are enough. Paste the notes as they are, or drop a file.

The chat input in Plainline with raw workshop notes pasted in and a notes file attached

Questions

If a note could mean two things, Plainline asks you one short question before it writes the slide.

Plainline asks whether the calendar decision is final, with answer options

Sources

Each block shows the line it came from. Click a block to see the exact words from your notes.

A slide block with the Sources panel open, showing the line of the notes it came from

Worth a deck

Make a deck when the outcome has to leave the room.

Client workshop

The client expects a deck after the session. Send one the same day.

Reporting up

Your lead wasn’t in the room. A few slides tell them what you decided and what you need.

Next meeting

Open with the recap on screen, so the group starts from last week’s decisions.

Weekly status

Notes from the sync turn into this week’s update for stakeholders.

No deck needed

The whole team was in the room and you made one decision? Write two lines in the team chat and skip the deck.

AI notes

An AI summary is for the people who were there. A deck is for the people who weren’t.

A typical AI meeting summary on the left with the lines used on slides highlighted; a six-slide workshop recap deck on the right

Paste the summary in. Plainline picks from it and adds nothing. Each block shows its source line.

FAQ

How do I turn meeting notes into a presentation?

Paste the notes or drop a file, answer a couple of questions, and get a recap deck you can edit.

Does it work with summaries from Zoom, Otter, Fireflies or Granola?

Yes. Paste the summary as text or drop the file. There’s no direct integration.

Can I use a transcript instead of notes?

Yes, as text or a file. Notes usually give a tighter deck, because someone picked what mattered.

Can I upload a photo of the whiteboard?

Yes. Check what Plainline read from it before you send the deck.

Can I make a workshop summary presentation?

Yes. Paste notes from all sessions together and get one deck.

Can I make meeting summary slides for a client?

Yes. Choose “Clients” as the audience and Plainline shifts the tone toward outcomes.

Will it add things nobody said?

It’s built not to. You can highlight blocks that have no source in your notes.

Does Plainline record or join meetings?

No. You bring the notes, and Plainline builds the deck from them.

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