A tool that turns council meeting minutes into a traceable history of one local issue
Asked for by a civic-minded community member on r/SomebodyMakeThis · original source · more from r/SomebodyMakeThis
Following something like a promised sidewalk repair across months of meetings is tedious. Pick passages from the minutes, keep their dates and source links, group them by issue, and show updates, corrections and outcomes in a printable timeline for a library or community binder.
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- You paste passages from council minutes with their dates and links, group them under one local issue, and print a clean timeline of what was promised, changed and done.
- Suggested shape
- Web app that keeps the data on your own device
- In scope
- Create an issue (like "Elm Street sidewalk repair") and add entries: a pasted passage, the meeting date, and a link to the minutes it came from.
- Mark each entry as an update, a correction or an outcome, with an optional one-line summary.
- A timeline for each issue, oldest first, with the date and source link on every entry.
- A print-friendly version of the timeline for a library or community binder, with its sources listed.
- Keep passages word for word and linked to their source, so readers can check them.
- Optional, if there's time
- Search across all issues.
- Export and import a file, so several people can work on the same history.
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