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Turn Meeting Recordings into Actionable Summaries

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Goal:
This workflow converts recorded meetings into structured summaries with action items and key decisions. It serves as a universal meeting processor for general business meetings and distributes summaries to both Coda and Slack.
The workflow ensures consistent meeting documentation and team notification for any type of business meeting.
Prerequisites:
N8N Instance: Running N8N automation platform (cloud or self-hosted)
VideoDB API Key: Obtain from VideoDB Console
VideoDB N8N Node: Install the custom node in your N8N instance
Meeting Recording: Access to meeting recording (any platform with recording capability)
Coda Workspace: For meeting documentation storage
Slack Workspace: For team notifications
Main Workflow Steps:
Step 1: Meeting Recording
Process recorded meeting files or live meeting recordings
Initiate VideoDB processing for the meeting content
Wait for recording completion before analysis
Step 2: Video Processing
Index spoken words and generate comprehensive transcript
Create timestamped transcript for reference
Prepare content for AI summarization
Step 3: AI Summarization
Extract meeting title and purpose
Identify key discussion points and decisions made
Extract action items with ownership assignments and due dates
Structure information into consistent format
Step 4: Documentation and Distribution
Create new entry in Coda project database with structured fields:
Date and meeting metadata
Executive summary
Action points with assignments
Decision log
Send formatted meeting summary to Slack with action item notifications

Conclusion:
This workflow creates a complete meeting documentation system that stores structured summaries in Coda while keeping teams informed through Slack notifications.
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