Minutes from notes — turn what someone wrote down into your minutes

If somebody took notes at the meeting — rough bullets, a transcript, an AI assistant's summary — Turtini can turn them into your organization's minutes format instead of a blank page.

To use it:
1. Open Documents (/documents) and press "Minutes from notes".
2. Paste the notes. Anything readable works; it does not have to be tidy.
3. Press "Create draft minutes". The document opens in the editor.

What you get back is the SAME format the blank minutes template uses — a nonprofit board's numbered sections, or an association's narrative opening with bold headings — because minutes that look unlike the ten years of minutes behind them are the wrong kind of tidy. Which format you get follows the organization type set in Account settings.

What gets filled in, and what does not:
• Attendance and the meeting date fill in, because a name the notes marked present is present under any format.
• Motions, agenda items and action items are carried across word for word and placed under a heading called "From the notes — to be placed". They are NOT slotted into New Business or a Treasurer Report for you. Which section a motion belongs under is a judgment about what kind of business it was, and getting that wrong misreports what the board did. Drag each line where it belongs.
• Anything the notes did not establish is listed under "Before this can be adopted" — who attended, whether a quorum was present, what became of a motion that has no recorded outcome.

Why the gaps are in the document and not just on screen:
A review screen is something you click past once. The document is what gets printed, emailed and adopted, so the missing pieces travel with it and the board sees them at the meeting where they matter. Delete those lines once they are resolved.

What Turtini will not do:
It never writes a quorum, a vote tally or a motion's outcome that the notes did not state. "Everyone seemed fine with it" does not become "the motion carried unanimously" — that sentence reads beautifully and can validate a decision that never legally happened. If the notes are silent, you get a gap, not a guess.

Every draft says on its face that it is a draft and not yet adopted. Minutes become the record when the board adopts them, normally at the next meeting.