Updated: 4 November 2026

Summarise anything in 3 bullets

This prompt summarises text in exactly three bullets: the main point, the strongest evidence or example and what you should do or remember. It then adds one line on what is missing or questionable in the text.

text-summarize-3-bullets — chatgpt — 47 words

Summarise the text below in exactly 3 bullet points:
1. The main point
2. The strongest evidence or example
3. What I should do or remember

Then add one line starting "What's missing or questionable:" noting anything the author didn't prove.

Text:
[PASTE ARTICLE, REPORT, OR TRANSCRIPT]

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Works great on meeting transcripts, long emails, and research papers.

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What you will get

Exactly three bullets (the main point, the strongest evidence, what to do or remember) plus one line saying what the author did not prove.

Common mistake

The bullets repeat the article’s headline instead of its argument.

Fix: Paste the full text, not just the opening, and add “the main point must be the claim, not the topic”. A claim can be right or wrong, a topic cannot.

Also watch for

The “what’s missing” line is only politeness. Reply “be specific: which claim has no evidence, and what evidence would settle it?”. A vague doubt is no use.
A long transcript is cut off at the end. If the tool stops early, split the text in two, ask for three bullets for each half, then combine them. Long inputs tend to lose the end first.

Try a variation: meeting notes

For a meeting transcript, change the three bullets to “decisions made, who owns what by when, open questions”. Same shape, more useful for a team.

Still not right? Reply with this

Make each bullet one sentence, make the third bullet a concrete action, and name the specific claim in the last line that lacks evidence.