Notebook OS grew up around research and clinical work, and for a long time its recipe library showed it. The newest release adds 29 recipes for the work that fills most calendars: meetings, memos, status reports, onboarding, the reading you never get to.
There are 99 recipes now. Here are the five worth trying first, each as the same three things: what you put in, which recipe you pick, and what you get back.
1. A meeting recording → minutes with owners and deadlines
Drop the recording into a notebook and run Meeting minutes & action items. What comes back is a minutes report plus an action table — who agreed to what, and by when — which is the half of minutes that usually goes missing. The recording can be an hour long; the table is the part you paste into your tracker.
2. Twenty PDFs → one page your director can decide on
Policies, vendor documents, a consultant's report, last year's version of all three. Add them and run Decision memo. The output is a one-page memo: the options as they actually stand in the documents, what each one costs, and a recommendation with the reasoning attached to sources rather than to somebody's memory of a meeting.
3. The week's reading → ten minutes of audio
Everything you saved and did not read goes in a notebook; Weekly digest turns it into an audio overview of about ten minutes. It is not a substitute for reading the two documents that matter. It is how you find out which two those are, on a commute, without a screen.
4. The documents you already have → an onboarding pack
Every team has the material and none of it is arranged for a newcomer. Add the handbook, the architecture notes, the runbook and the half-written wiki page, then run Onboarding guide. You get a pack that starts where a new person actually starts, plus an FAQ document for the questions your team answers every single time.
5. Status documents → a deck for the quarterly review
Run Project status / QBR deck over the quarter's notes and reports. With Editable Deck on, the deck arrives as a .pptx whose title and bullets are real text boxes — so the number that lands the evening before the review can be fixed in PowerPoint instead of regenerated.
Finding the rest
The library is filtered by persona — Work & business, Research, Study & exams, Clinical — so the office recipes are three clicks from the Studio panel and the other 94 are not in your way. The same chips sit in the Skills library, where 25 built-in Skills cover the writing that recurs: stakeholder updates, reply drafts, policy questions, project briefs.
All five of these are free. What they spend is your Gemini Notebook quota, because Gemini Notebook does the generating — Notebook OS writes the instruction, fills the dialog and gets out of the way.