Auto-generate meeting minutes with GPT and share from Google Drive to Slack
### Who’s it for
Teams who want to **automatically generate structured meeting minutes** from uploaded transcripts and instantly share them in Slack. Perfect for startups, project teams, or any company that collects meeting transcripts in Google Drive.
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### How it works / What it does
This workflow automatically turns raw meeting transcripts into well-structured minutes in Markdown and posts them to Slack:
1. **Google Drive Trigger** – Watches a specific folder. Any new transcript file added will start the workflow.
2. **Download File** – Grabs the transcript.
3. **Prep Transcript** – Converts the file into plain text and passes the transcript downstream.
4. **Message a Model** – Sends the transcript to OpenAI GPT for summarization using a structured system prompt (action items, decisions, N/A placeholders).
5. **Make Minutes** – Formats GPT’s response into a Markdown file.
6. **Slack: Send a message** – Posts a Slack message announcing the auto-generated minutes.
7. **Slack: Upload a file** – Uploads the full Markdown minutes file into the chosen Slack channel.
End result: your Slack channel always has clear, standardized minutes right after a meeting.
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### How to set up
1. **Google Drive**
- Create a folder where you’ll drop transcript files.
- Configure the folder ID in the Google Drive Trigger node.
2. **OpenAI**
- Add your OpenAI API credentials in the *Message a Model* node.
- Select a supported GPT model (e.g., `gpt-4o-mini` or `gpt-4`).
3. **Slack**
- Connect your Slack account and set the target channel ID in the Slack nodes.
4. **Run the workflow** and drop a transcript file into Drive. Minutes will appear in Slack automatically.
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### Requirements
- Google Drive account (for transcript upload)
- OpenAI API key (for text summarization)
- Slack workspace (for message posting and file upload)
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### How to customize the workflow
- **Change summary structure**: Adjust the system prompt inside *Message a Model* (e.g., shorter summaries, language other than English).
- **Different output format**: Modify *Make Minutes* to output plain text, PDF, or HTML instead of Markdown.
- **New destinations**: Add more nodes to send minutes to email, Notion, or Confluence in parallel.
- **Multiple triggers**: Replace Google Drive trigger with Webhook if you want to integrate with Zoom or MS Teams transcript exports.
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### Good to know
- OpenAI API calls are billed separately. See [OpenAI pricing](https://openai.com/pricing).
- Files must be text-based (.txt or .md). For PDFs or docs, add a conversion step before summarization.
- Slack requires the bot user to be a member of the target channel, otherwise you’ll see a `not_in_channel` error.
