What is an action items template?
We've all been in that meeting. Loads of brilliant ideas, everyone nodding, three people volunteering for things, and then... nothing. A week later nobody can remember who agreed to do what, and the momentum is gone.
An action items table fixes that. It's a simple record of every task that came out of the discussion, with the name of who owns it, when it was raised, and when it's due. No more scrolling back through Slack to work out whether you or Dave said you'd handle the client follow-up.
Contented pulls it all out automatically from the recording. No missed items -if it was raised in the meeting as a task, it's in the log.
How to use an action items table
Record your meeting in the Contented app, pick the action items template, and download a structured task table within minutes.
1. Record your conversation
Capture your meeting in the Contented app. It works for team standups, client calls, planning sessions, or any discussion where tasks get handed out.
2. Select the action items template
Choose action items in your Contented workspace. Contented identifies every task mentioned, who agreed to take it on, and the deadline attached, even when it's vague like "soon" or "by end of next week".
3. Review, export, and share
Download the table as CSV, PDF, or Word within minutes of the meeting wrapping up. Share it with the team so those action items can get moving ASAP.
Who uses an action items table?
Anyone who attends meetings that end with things to be done. A few examples:
- Operations and admin leads coordinating workflow changes across tools, systems, or teams.
- Agency project managers running client calls who need to walk away with a clean list of follow-ups.
- Small teams juggling multiple workstreams, where one meeting might touch product, marketing, and invoicing all in one go.
- Remote teams across time zones where clarity saves days of back-and-forth.
What's in an action items table?
- Every action captured with the owner's name, so there's no confusion about who agreed to what.
- Date noted for each item.
- Due dates pulled from the conversation, including conditional ones like "once Lucy completes the changes" or "after receiving the meeting recording".
- A clean table format that's ready to paste into project tools or share as-is.
FAQs
Yes. The Contented app lets you record any conversation directly from your phone or computer. No bots needed in the meeting. It also works offline, so you can capture meetings in locations without reliable signal and the recording will upload automatically when you're back online.
Yes. You can share conversations directly with individual team members or groups within your workspace. Recipients can view the conversation and generate their own documents and insights from it. You can also share with full permission, so others can edit and manage the recording. What you create can be downloaded to share as a document or CSV.
No. Contented only works with what’s within the recording. It applies structured templates to your transcript rather than generating text from scratch, so there's no room for fabrication. Every output traces back to a speaker or timestamp, and you review and finalise everything before it leaves your team.