Why decisions get lost in a chat
AI is part of a lot of people's work now: in a Pew Research Center survey from February 2026, 38% of employed US adults said they use chatbots for tasks at work. Side projects get the same treatment, often in one very long chat, or several.
A chat records everything in order. A decision made on day 2 and reversed on day 9 looks the same as one that still stands. The chat doesn't tell you which is current.
What a decisions memo shows
- What's decided: the choices that still stand.
- What changed along the way, and what it changed from.
- What was set aside: the ideas you dropped, so they don't sneak back in.
- What doesn't add up: two decisions that contradict each other.
That last one is often the most useful. It's how you find out that the budget in week 1 doesn't fit the plan in week 4.
Make one by hand
- Go through the chat and list every decision, with the date.
- Cross out the ones you later changed, and note the new version.
- List the ideas you dropped.
- Read the list for anything that contradicts something else.
It works. On a long chat, it's an evening.
The faster way: Memo, in Uncook
Uncook's Memo reads the chat and gives you that document. On the ChatGPT page, click the Uncook icon and pick Memo. You get what's decided, what changed along the way, what was set aside and what doesn't add up.
Spread across several chats? Pick them together. The memo shows where they agree, where they differ, and what's still open.
The task cost is shown in the tool box below. Copy it, export it to PDF, Markdown, text or Word, or share it as a page.
Questions people ask
Is a memo the same as a summary? No. A summary gives you the essentials of a chat. A memo is about decisions: what stands, what changed, what was dropped and what contradicts.
Will it tell me what to do next? It shows what's still open. What to do about it is up to you.
Can I share it with someone helping on the project? Yes. Share it as a page anyone can read without signing up, or export it.
Start fresh,
without starting over.
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We don't keep the conversations you bring. When you click Send to Uncook in the extension window, the extension sends the chat from your tab to our servers, encrypted, for up to 30 minutes, and we delete it as soon as your Uncook page opens it. What Uncook makes from it is kept as a task, for as long as our Privacy page says. Neither your chats nor your tasks are used to train AI models.