An AI from Google that answers only from your materials and shows where each answer comes from. Upload course notes, PDFs, links or YouTube videos and turn them into summaries, flashcards, a quiz, a mind map or a podcast. On 16 July 2026 NotebookLM was renamed Gemini Notebook; the features and your notebooks stayed the same. As of 26 October 2026.
A regular chat answers from what it has learned. Gemini Notebook answers from what you give it. That makes it good for studying, working with documents and anywhere you need to know where an answer comes from.
What you put into the notebook is what the AI answers from. Based on Google's help pages.
The Studio panel turns your sources into ready-made outputs. Google warns that all of them can contain mistakes, so compare them with the sources.
Since July 2026, each notebook on paid plans also has a cloud computer that writes and runs code on your sources, for data analysis for example. Ultra subscribers and business accounts got it first. According to Google's July announcement, Pro is getting it gradually.
Wherever you have a pile of text and need the essentials from it, with a pointer to where they come from.
Based on Google's help pages. Limits change often; the current ones are on the help pages.
Type these into the chat of a notebook that already has sources. Replace the yellow parts in square brackets with your own.
Go through all the sources in this notebook and write: 1. What each source is about, in one sentence. 2. The main topics that come up across the sources. 3. Where the sources agree and where they contradict each other. 4. What the sources don't answer, even though it belongs to the topic. Give a citation for every claim.
PD2V Web Find the places where the sources contradict each other on [numbers, dates, recommendations].
For each contradiction, say what each source claims, with a citation, and what could explain it (a different date, a different methodology, a different group of people).
Don't decide who's right if the sources don't make it clear. Tell me what I should check.
My exam in [subject] is in [10] days and I have [2] hours a day. Split the material from the sources into a day-by-day plan: what to read (with a citation of where it is in the sources), what to review and one check question for each day. Leave the last two days for review. If the sources don't cover part of the material, say so.
Quiz me on [topic], only from what's in the sources. Ask one question at a time and wait for my answer.
After each answer, say what was right and what was missing, and give a citation of where I'll find it in the sources.
After 8 questions, sum up what I should review.
Paste into the customisation field before you generate the audio overview.
Focus only on [chapters 3–5]. The listener is [a second-year student hearing the material for the first time]. Explain the concepts [concept 1, concept 2] with examples. Skip a long introduction. At the end, name 5 things I should remember.
From the source [name of the video or lecture], make notes for me:
1. The main idea in 2 sentences.
2. The steps or arguments as bullet points, in the order they came up.
3. The terms that came up, with a short explanation from the video.
4. What the author only hinted at that's worth looking up.
Give a citation for each point. Don't add anything that wasn't said in the video.
According to the manual in the sources: how do I [descale the washing machine / set the timer / pair the headphones]?
Write the steps. Give a citation of the manual page for each step.
If the manual doesn't describe it, say so and don't make anything up. Point out any warnings the manual gives about it.
The source is an audio recording or transcript of the meeting. Record only with the others' consent.
Write minutes from the meeting recording: - Decisions we agreed on. - Tasks: who, what and by when. If no deadline was mentioned, write "not set". - Open questions. Write only what was said in the meeting. Give a citation for each point.
Paste into the notebook's chat settings. It then applies to every question in that notebook.
You're my teacher for [subject]. Answer in [English], briefly and clearly for [a first-year student]. When I ask about a concept, first explain it in one sentence, then give an example from the sources. If the answer isn't in the sources, say so and don't fill it in from your own knowledge.