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PM notes tree + AI status digests

Status meetings produce paragraphs. Stakeholders want five bullets. Between those two shapes sits a week of chat noise, a spreadsheet nobody trusts, and a risk that somehow never made it onto the slide. A project manager’s job is not to feed the whole week into a model — it is to keep a thin, dated tree of risks, decisions, and meeting outcomes, then ask AI only for packaging.

SEO Note is a free Windows tree outliner (~2.45 MB, one local file, no account, no built-in AI). Use it beside Jira/Sheets, not instead of them. The file is your private working truth and prompt kit; shared trackers stay shared. Same spine: local notes as source of truth.

PM split

In SEO Note
  • Project goal & constraints
  • Risks with owners / dates
  • Meeting notes → decisions
  • Open questions
In the AI chat
  • Status digest drafts
  • Risk rewrites for exec tone
  • Agenda suggestions
  • Disposable “what did we miss?”
PM.sn
  Projects
    Mobile checkout — launch May
      Goal / constraints
      Risks
        R3 — payment partner SLA
      Meetings
        2026-04-10 standup notes
        Decisions (rolled up)
      Open questions
      Prompts
        Weekly status digest
  Stakeholders (optional cheat sheet)
  Archive

Roll decisions up after each meeting so you do not hunt through dated children. Risks need an owner name or they are wishes.

Paste + prompt

Prompt — Weekly status digest
Context: [Goal + Risks + Decisions since last digest + Open questions]
Audience: busy stakeholders, 60 seconds.
Task: green/yellow/red one-liner; 5 bullets max; risks only if still open.
Rules: no new dates or % complete unless present in context; mark UNVERIFIED guesses.
Do not paste: salary data, HR notes, full customer PII from CRM exports, credentials, or every Slack dump. Curate. Freelancer-side client trees: freelancer notes tree. Privacy checklist: what not to paste.

Friday 20 minutes

1 Update Risks and Decisions from the week
2 Copy Goal + Risks + new Decisions
3 Run Weekly status digest
4 Edit bullets in your voice
5 Paste only the final into email / chat

Pitfalls

  • Digest becomes the plan — never write % complete only in the chat
  • Meeting notes without a Decisions rollup
  • One project node for the whole portfolio
  • AI inventing “alignment” you did not have

When to use something else

Live multiplayer roadmaps, resource leveling, and company OKR tools stay in those systems. SEO Note is the quiet layer for what you need to remember between tools — and for prompts you reuse. Token-cost awareness when digests get fat: token cost of note workflows.

Next steps

  1. Create one active project with Goal / Risks / Meetings / Decisions
  2. Backfill two real risks with owners
  3. File yesterday’s meeting under Meetings; roll Decisions
  4. Run one digest; send only after you edit
  5. Back up the file

Download SEO Note free and stop rebuilding status from memory every Friday.

Keep going

  • Tree templates and PDF guide — role/method skeletons (card checkout via YooKassa when enabled).
  • If this guide helped, you can say hello or grab ready-made trees on the templates page.

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