Everyone photographs the whiteboard at the end of the meeting. Almost nobody opens the photo again. It sits in the camera roll as a picture of a wall.
ChatGPT reads handwriting. A photo of a whiteboard is a document you can hand it, not just an image it describes back to you.
The prompt
Here's a photo of my whiteboard from today's meeting. Transcribe everything on it, group items by owner, and flag anything without a deadline.Attach the photo, paste this, send.
How to use it
Shoot straight on, not at an angle. Glare on a whiteboard costs you more than resolution does.
Works the same on a notebook page, a sticky-note wall, or a printed agenda someone scribbled on.
The deadline flag is the valuable part. It surfaces the items that quietly have no owner.
What it doesn't do
It will guess at bad handwriting and won't tell you it guessed. Check every name, number, and date against the photo before you send the recap to anyone.