The topic Notebooks are now available for free Gemini app users is currently the subject of lively discussion — readers and analysts are keeping a close eye on developments.
This is taking place in a dynamic environment: companies’ decisions and competitors’ reactions can quickly change the picture.
On gemini.google.com, you’ll find a new “Notebooks” section in the side panel above Gems and Chats. These are the same notebooks that appear in the NotebookLM app. As such, you can continue to create Video Overviews, Infographics, and other Studio outputs.
They can be thought of as projects that “give you a dedicated space to organize your chats and files.” Any conversation in the Gemini app can be added to a notebook from the three-dot overflow menu.
Google will “consider all chats in [a] notebook when responding,” though there’s a “notebook memory” setting that can be disabled. There’s also support for providing custom instructions about tone and response format.
When you open a notebook, you can browse sources above the prompt box, while a list of chats appears underneath. You also have access to the full set of Gemini Tools and web search.
Looking ahead, notebooks will be “personal knowledge bases shared across Google products.” The company teases “even more helpful features” for notebooks in future. Notebooks are not yet live in the mobile or Mac apps, with full availability over the “coming weeks.”