Gemini Notebook

Gemini Notebook, formerly NotebookLM, is Google's AI research tool and thinking partner, with answers grounded in notebook sources. It is built for students, researchers, and professionals who want grounded, citable answers about their own material. You can upload material or discover sources from the web and Google Drive. The app helps you explore that content using Google's Gemini models.

Key Highlights

• Source-grounded chat with citations to notebook material
• Fast Research and Deep Research to discover and import sources
• Accepts PDFs, Google Docs/Slides, websites, YouTube videos, and audio
• Audio Overviews that turn your sources into a podcast-style discussion
• Mind maps and summaries that surface connections across documents
• Notebooks you can organize and share
• Built on the latest Gemini multimodal models

What Makes It Different

Unlike a general chatbot, Gemini Notebook grounds answers in your notebook sources, which makes citations traceable back to the original text. Answers still need review. Audio Overviews turn notebook material into spoken discussions for hands-free review.

Features & Capabilities

You create a notebook, upload sources, and then ask questions, request summaries, or generate study guides, and answers can cite the passages they use. Mind maps help you see how ideas across documents relate.

Audio Overviews convert a notebook into a listenable discussion, and you can steer or interact with them, which is useful for reviewing material hands-free.

User Ratings and Testimonials

Evaluate citations against the original material and review generated Audio Overviews for accuracy. Source quality, notebook limits, and the material selected for a question affect how useful the results are.

Pricing & Value

• Free: full core features with standard source and notebook limits
• Upgraded access: higher limits or premium features through eligible Google AI, Google Workspace, or Google Cloud plans

Compare the standard limits with your notebook sizes and research workload before choosing upgraded access.