A wellorganized meeting will start with a carefully considered agenda and end with a set of meeting minutes that define clear action items. Action items: List any tasks that have been assigned or agreed upon, along with the details of the assignees and deadlines.An action item is a specific task with a clear objective, deadline, and assignee. It's usually to help progress a project forward or meet a business objective. I use the meeting agenda as a fill in the blank, take attendance, then use bullet points to keep shorthand notes of who said what. Simply, they're notes of who attended the meeting, what they discussed, and which action items came out as a result. "Action items that are actually tasks assigned during a meeting" would need to come out of motions. The minutes will show the motion having passed. Meeting minutes should be a summary of what happened at the meeting. Seven meeting minutes template examples for nearly every (highlevel) meeting format you can think of.