These three types of documents have clear purposes what they do, and the UI will optimize to these purposes. By adhering to this, you will make much better solutions.
- recipes are instructions
the UI will let you tick boxes, edit the document, add notes and more
- reference-material is background information / helper material
the UI will allow you to quickly read this as you're gotting your work done
- templates are just snippets for mails, code, etc.
the UI will help you to easily copy/paste this