Automatic action items are handy until one appears that nobody agreed to. Oatmeal treats everything it finds as a suggestion and leaves the decision to you.
Suggestions in the margin
After a meeting, ask Oatmeal to find decisions and action items. Each one appears beside your notes as a proposal, with what it is and the moment it came from, for example “Suggested · action · 07:42”. Check it against the transcript at that moment.
Confirm, and it counts
Confirm a suggestion and it’s stamped as yours. Until then it stays a suggestion. If nothing clear was decided in the meeting, the list stays empty rather than inventing something to show.
Across meetings
You can look for decisions across all your meetings, not just the one in front of you, and search every meeting for the conversation behind them.