Gemini Notebook
Gemini Notebook is an AI-powered research assistant. Google’s help page says you upload your sources, chat with them for grounded answers with in-line citations, and turn them into study guides, briefings, audio overviews and mind maps.
What Gemini Notebook does
- Takes PDFs, websites, YouTube videos, audio files, Google Docs and Google Slides as sources, or helps you discover new ones.
- Lets you chat with your notebook for information grounded in your sources, with clear in-line citations.
- Transforms sources into study guides, briefings, audio overviews, mind maps and more.
- Supports 80+ languages, in the browser.
What people use it for
Study from your own material
Turn training documents into study guides, flashcards and quizzes, as Google’s Workspace channel shows.
Organise a project
Put the project’s documents in one notebook and ask questions across them.
Brief yourself
Generate a briefing or audio overview of a set of sources, then check it against them.
Who it suits
- Students, researchers and professionals who work from a fixed set of documents.
- Teams that want answers tied to their own sources, with citations to check.
Plans and access
Google says Gemini Notebook is available in the browser to users above the age of consent in supported countries and territories, and to most users with a business or school Google Account. The mobile app may have different availability. Read Google’s current help page for your country.
How to start
- 1Read Google’s overview and check availability for your country. Open
- 2Open a notebook and add two or three sources you know well.
- 3Ask a question you know the answer to, and open the citations.
- 4Generate a study guide or briefing and check it against the sources.
Watch and learn
Videos from Google’s own channel, so you can learn it here. Nothing loads from YouTube until you press play. More on the Google Workspace channel.
Google Workspace · 2026
How to use Gemini at Work with Google Workspace, NotebookLM, and Gemini Enterprise | Lesson 1
Google Workspace · 2026
Turn training docs into study guides, flashcards, and quizzes with NotebookLM
Google Workspace · 2025
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Common questions about Gemini Notebook
- What is Gemini Notebook?
- Google describes it as an AI-powered research assistant to help you refine and organise your ideas.
- What can I upload?
- Google lists PDFs, websites, YouTube videos, audio files, Google Docs and Google Slides.
- Are the answers cited?
- Google says chat gives grounded information based on your sources, with clear in-line citations. Open them to check.
- Is it the same as NotebookLM?
- Google’s own pages use both names, and the address notebooklm.google leads to Gemini Notebook today.
Where this comes from
Written from the maker’s own pages, read on 2026-10-13. Plans, limits and features change, so the page you land on is the source.
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