Recipes

Recipes are reusable prompt templates that help you quickly get insights from your meeting notes without typing the same questions repeatedly. Instead of manually crafting detailed instructions each time you want to analyze your notes, you can save your favorite prompts as recipes and run them with a single click.

Accessing recipes

You can bring up the recipes menu by typing forward slash (/) in the floating chat bar. This will display all available recipes, including default ones provided by Granola, recipes you’ve created, and any shared by your team.

Alternatively, you can browse all recipes from the sidebar menu, which opens a dedicated recipes tab.

Browsing and finding recipes

The recipes tab organizes your prompts into several sections to help you find what you need.

The Discover section highlights recommended recipes created by the Granola team and some of our community, that showcase useful ways to analyze your notes. Your personal recipes appear under My recipes, while Workspace recipes shows prompts shared by your team members.

You can search for specific recipes using the search bar - it searches the recipe text itself as well as the title.

Creating a recipe

1. Open the recipes menu by typing / in the chat bar, or navigate to the recipes tab

2. Select “Create a recipe”

3. Give your recipe a name - this is what you'll type into chat as a shortcut

4. Write your prompt with detailed instructions for what you want analyzed and how you want the results formatted

5. Choose where the recipe should be available:

   • Single meetings

   • Multiple meetings

6. Click into Advanced settings if you want to select a specific AI model:

   • Standard models work quickly for most tasks

   • Thinking models take longer but handle complex analysis better

7. Save your recipe

8. Once you've saved your recipe, you can publish it to your Granola workspace, or share it via a link. You can control who can access the link:

   • Private

   • Anyone in your workspace

   • Anyone with link

   Sharing a recipe via a link will allow anyone to try it on their meeting notes, add it to their saved recipes or edit their own version of it. They won't be able to edit your version of the recipe or see any of your meeting notes.

Using recipes effectively

Recipes work best when you provide clear, specific instructions in your prompt. Consider including details about what information to extract, how to structure the output, and what areas to focus on.

Common use cases include:

• Extracting action items or decisions from recent meetings

• Summarizing product feedback across multiple calls

• Identifying features or bugs to test from development discussions

• Creating interview assessments after candidate calls

• Analyzing sales conversations for common objections or questions

Check out our guide on how to write effective recipes for more detail.