Granola adds reusable prompt shortcuts called Recipes

After a grueling two-hour meeting, the real work often begins: copying transcripts, opening ChatGPT or Claude, and pasting the same set of prompts to extract tasks or draft follow-up emails.

Meeting notetaker Granola just introduced a new feature called Recipes, bringing repeatable prompt shortcuts directly into its platform so users no longer have to bounce between tabs.

Slash commands for meeting context

Recipes functions similarly to prompt libraries seen in tools like Poe or browser skills in Dia and Opera Neon.

Inside Granola chat, users can invoke a recipe simply by typing "/" followed by its name.

Each recipe acts as a reusable prompt that can run against either a single meeting transcript or pull context across multiple past meetings. This means you can track ongoing discussions or changes in project scope over time without manually feeding previous transcripts.

Users can write custom recipes from scratch, consult Granola's prompt guide, or browse a pre-built library organized across before, during, and after meeting stages. Recipes can also be shared directly with teammates.

Keeping work inside the transcript

Granola co-founder Chris Pedregal told TechCrunch that the move was inspired directly by user workarounds.

Many users were regularly copying transcripts out of Granola into external chatbots like ChatGPT or Claude to run personalized queries. Recipes is designed to keep those workflows in-house, giving prompts direct access to Granola's structured context.

While rivals like Fireflies, Fathom, and Circleback also offer prompt-based insights and templates, Pedregal noted that most competitors only operate after a meeting concludes.

Currently, recipes are confined to meeting data inside the app. However, Granola plans to integrate external services down the road to feed broader workplace context into the prompts.

Why it matters

Prompt shortcuts themselves are hardly new, but baking them directly into an existing repository of proprietary meeting context is a very smart move.

AI meeting recorders have spent years competing on transcription accuracy and static post-meeting summaries. The problem is that static summaries rarely fit everyone's exact workflow, forcing power users to export their transcripts elsewhere. By letting users query single or cross-meeting notes with simple slash commands, Granola is effectively turning a passive notepad into an active knowledge base.

Covering before, during, and after meeting workflows also gives it an edge over competitors who treat meeting intelligence as an afterthought once the call ends.

The limitation, of course, is that a meeting rarely contains the whole picture. Until Granola follows through on connecting outside services like docs or messaging apps, the context available to recipes will remain boxed in. Even so, for anyone drowning in recurring catch-ups who is tired of re-prompting external chatbots, this makes Granola immediately much more practical to use every day.