Understanding Detail Levels

Understanding Detail Levels

When you upload a recording, you choose a detail level that controls how much information ends up in the finished minutes. Different boards have different needs — MuniMins lets you choose per meeting.

Brief — One sentence per topic plus motions and votes. This is the tightest output — just the actions taken and the results. Best for boards that want a clean, minimal record or for compliance-only minutes.

Standard — Two to five sentence summaries with key discussion points per topic. Captures the reasoning behind decisions without full attribution of every comment. Best for most boards as a default.

Detailed — Captures who said what and how the conversation developed. Best for boards where the public record needs to reflect the full discussion — select boards, planning boards with complex hearings, or any meeting where individual positions matter.  About 2x the detail of standard.

You pick the level per meeting

Your Planning Board might need Detailed for a contentious hearing but Brief for a routine agenda-only meeting. Your Conservation Commission might always use Standard. You choose every time you upload.

You can change it later

If the first set of minutes comes back and you want more (or less) detail, you can regenerate the minutes at a different detail level without re-uploading the recording. See Regenerating Minutes.  MuniMins saves all transcript and audio so it can be reprocessed at any time.