Summary
This chapter covers using code to parse unstructured text and extract actionable items—key decisions, open questions, and tasks—from raw notes.

General domain of usage
Meeting note analysis and project management tools

## Task
Paste a rough set of notes you have lying around — meeting notes, notes from a book or article, or your own scribbles from earlier this week.

> Extract the key decisions, open questions, and action items from these notes: [paste your notes]. Keep it short and skimmable.

Master the skills needed to turn scattered thoughts, notes, and meetings into a system you can actually rely on. Discover how to capture ideas without friction, structure raw notes into clear decisions and action items, and retrieve what you need without repeating yourself. Get hands-on experience connecting AI to a Notion page and a calendar, then build a review habit that keeps your second brain alive long after the lab ends.

Learn how to offload thoughts before organizing them, using AI to sort a messy brain dump and surface the ideas worth keeping from anything you read or hear.

Turn raw notes into decisions, open questions, and action items, then build a tagging system connected to a real Notion page so nothing gets buried.

Practice asking follow-up questions that draw on context already shared, then build a review routine backed by a real calendar reminder.