WORK You have been copied on or need to catch up on a long email thread and need to extract the substance without reading every message. 94 words
Summarise the Key Decisions and Actions From a Long Email Thread
Thirty-seven messages about the thing. Some of them are relevant. The decisions, if any were made, are in there somewhere. This extracts what actually matters from an email thread: what the thread was about, what decisions were made or appear to have been made, who was assigned to do what, what is still unresolved, and what needs to happen next. Paste the thread and get a half-page summary you can actually use.
I have a long email thread that contains decisions, action items, and context buried across multiple messages. Summarise the thread for me: what the thread was about and why it matters, the key decisions that were made or appear to have been made, the action items and who they were assigned to, any unresolved questions or disagreements, and what needs to happen next based on the thread. Keep the summary to half a page. Work only from the email content provided. [paste the email thread here, most recent message first or in chronological order]
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