You just finished an hour-long Zoom meeting. Three people talked over each other. Someone shared their screen. Two deadlines and five action items were decided — but nobody wrote them down. Sound familiar?
Here is how to extract action items from your meeting transcript in under 30 seconds — with no bot joining your calls, no calendar access, and no audio recording.
Zoom has built-in transcription on all paid plans. Go to Settings → Recording → Cloud Recording → enable Audio transcript. After each meeting, Zoom emails you the transcript text. Google Meet users: turn on captions and use a browser extension to save the full text.
Open the transcript email or Google Doc. Select all text and copy it. A 30-minute meeting typically produces 2,000-5,000 words — modern AI handles this easily.
Go to Meeting Action Items, paste your transcript, and click Extract. In about 10 seconds, you get: 5-point summary, key decisions, action items with owners and deadlines, and a ready-to-send follow-up email draft.
| Tool | Price | Problem |
|---|---|---|
| Otter.ai | $17/mo | Class-action lawsuit (BIPA), free = only 3 imports/month |
| Fireflies.ai | $10/mo | Two BIPA lawsuits, requires calendar access, transcription inaccurate |
| Fathom | $19/mo | Feature-bloated, forces calendar integration |
| Meeting Action Items | $9.99/mo | Zero privacy risk — no bot, no recording, no calendar. 5 free extracts/month. |
Q: Does it work with Teams/Google Meet transcripts?
Yes. Any platform that generates text transcripts works.
Q: What about non-English meetings?
Full support for Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and 20+ languages. Output automatically matches input language.
Q: Is my data safe?
Free users: data deleted after 72 hours. Paid users: 30-day archive. No audio recording ever.