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Daily Standup Template

Time-boxed daily updates for engineering and product teams. Yesterday, today, and blockers in a structured format that an AI meeting note taker can auto-fill.

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Free template. Auto-fill from your meeting with Meetily - runs locally, available for Windows & macOS.

When to use this template

The Daily Standup template is built for the fifteen-minute morning sync that engineering and product teams run every working day. Each contributor answers three questions: what shipped yesterday, what is planned today, and what is blocking progress. The structure is deliberately narrow so the call stays time-boxed and the artifact is scannable in under thirty seconds.

Use it when you want a written record across the week without a dedicated note-taker tying up a person on every call. Skip it for retrospectives, planning, or any meeting that needs free-form discussion - this template optimizes for status, not depth.

How it differs from siblings

Where the standard meeting template captures decisions and discussion highlights, the standup template treats the meeting as a list of owners and tasks. There is no summary section by design - if the standup generates a discussion that needs a summary, it usually means the conversation should have been a separate meeting.

What the AI summary looks like

Meetily fills the Yesterday and Today tables row-by-row, one row per attendee, and only populates the Blockers table when an attendee explicitly raises a blocker. The Notes section is filled only when an announcement or follow-up cannot be expressed as a single row in one of the tables.

Template structure

  • Date

    One-line entry.

  • Attendees

    • Item
    • Item

  • Yesterday

    OwnerCompleted Work
    ......

  • Today

    OwnerPlanned Work
    ......

  • Blockers

    OwnerBlockerImpact
    .........

  • Notes

    Short paragraph captured here.

Frequently asked questions

Engineering, product, and design teams running daily standups in Scrum, Kanban, or Shape Up workflows. It also works for cross-functional standups at startups where a single fifteen-minute call covers blockers across engineering, design, and ops.
Meetily records the standup locally on Windows or macOS, transcribes it with Whisper or Parakeet on-device, and runs an LLM over the transcript to fill in the Yesterday, Today, and Blockers tables. You pick the summary model - local Ollama, your own API key, or our Hosted AI.
Yes. Copy the markdown, paste it into your editor of choice, and edit the table headers. In the Meetily desktop app you can also edit the template directly - it ships as the canonical Daily Standup template in the Pro binary.
Copy the markdown and paste it into Word, Google Docs, Notion, or Linear. All four import the markdown table syntax directly. There is no separate .docx file to download - the markdown is the source of truth.
Yes. The template is free, no signup required to copy the markdown. The Meetily Community Edition that auto-fills it is also free under the MIT license. Pro adds enhanced accuracy models and auto-detect meetings from $10/user/month billed annually.

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