Each year our church needs a journal of the significant things we did and bought. I use Claude.ai to review our board and members' meeting minutes and pull out the notable expenditures and initiatives from that year. It's useful for anyone who keeps minutes and wants a yearly record without reading every page again.

1. Gather the year's board meeting minutes and members' meeting minutes.
2. Have Claude.ai review the minutes and highlight any significant expenditures or initiatives from that year.
3. Keep the highlighted summary as a reference. When we later need to remember when an item was purchased or when we did something significant, we can find it quickly without rereading the minutes.
4. Use the summary to build the annual journal.

This lets us quickly find events years later, and it saves hours of time in creating the journal each year.