This is a free minutes of meeting (MOM) generator. Fill in the boxes below and it builds clean, ready-to-send minutes as you type: meeting details, attendees, discussion, decisions and an action item table with owners and due dates. Copy the result into an email or download it as a text file. It runs in your browser, and nothing you type is uploaded or saved.
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How to use this MOM generator
Fill in what you have; empty sections are left out. The minutes update as you type. Copy minutes keeps the headings and the action item table, so it pastes cleanly into an email, a Google Doc or Word. Download .txt saves a plain-text version. Not sure where to start? Press Try an example to see a filled-in set of minutes.
Decisions and action items are the parts people actually read, so write them first. Give each action item an owner and a real due date. "Soon" is not a due date. For the reasoning behind each section, see our guide to the minutes of meeting format, with a filled-in example.
What good minutes of meeting include
- Meeting details: title, date, time and place or platform.
- Attendees and absentees, so anyone who missed it knows they need to read on.
- Agenda: the topics the meeting was called for.
- Discussion: two or three lines per topic, no more.
- Decisions: what was agreed, as a clear statement.
- Action items: task, owner, due date.
- Next meeting, if one was fixed.
Send the minutes within a few hours of the meeting. The guide to taking minutes of meeting has a MOM email format you can copy, and how to write action items that get done covers the part most minutes get wrong.
Tips for minutes people actually read
A clean template does not guarantee anyone reads what comes out of it. A few habits make the difference between minutes that get filed away and ones that actually get used.
- Write decisions as statements, not summaries of the discussion. "We will launch on Friday" is useful. "There was a long discussion about the launch date" is not.
- Give every action item a real due date. "Soon" or "this week" leaves room for it to slip. A specific date makes it checkable later.
- Keep the discussion section short. Two or three lines per topic is usually enough. Anyone who needs more detail can ask the person who ran the meeting.
- Send the minutes within a few hours. The longer you wait, the more likely a decision gets misremembered before it reaches everyone.
- Name who was absent. It tells them, and everyone else, that they need to read the minutes rather than assume someone will fill them in verbally.
Skip the typing: let the minutes write themselves
A form is quicker than a blank page, but you still have to remember everything that was said. Zrec records Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams and in-person meetings from your computer, with no bot joining the call, and writes these same sections for you: summary, decisions, and action items with owners and due dates. Each decision links to the exact moment it was said, and meetings in Hindi or Hinglish get their minutes in English. Create a free account and try it on your next call, or see the plans and pricing.
Already have a recording? See how to get MOM from a Zoom recording and its transcript, a Microsoft Teams meeting or a Google Meet call.
Not sure whether you need full minutes or quick notes? Read MOM versus meeting notes before you decide how much detail to write.