Create and use notebooks in Gemini Apps

Notebooks are a way to organize your projects in Gemini Apps in a dedicated, focused space. Notebooks provide a continuous chat experience that remembers your sources, instructions, and ongoing discussions.

Notebooks can be used when you want to do things like:

Plan a trip or vacation.
Apply for a job.
Learn a new hobby or skill.
Create a business plan.
Prepare for an exam.

Important: You can create or edit a notebook within Gemini Apps or separately with Gemini Notebook. Your notebooks will be connected and synced in both places when you do things such as:

Create a new notebook.
Delete a notebook.
Add a chat to a notebook.
Add, delete, or edit a source for a notebook.
Rename a notebook or change the emoji for that notebook.
Add instructions for a notebook.

Learn more about Gemini Notebook.

What you need

To use this feature, you must be signed in to Gemini Apps with a personal Google Account. Learn how to sign in to Gemini Apps.
- Work and school accounts are currently not supported.

Create a notebook

To create a new notebook in Gemini Apps:

Go to gemini.google.com.
On the top left, click Open Sidebar .
Click New notebook.
Give your new notebook a name. This name helps you organize your notebooks and also helps you find them.
Enter a prompt to start your notebook.
(optional) Click sources to add files for Gemini to reference for your project.

Tips:

Based on your Google AI Plan, you can add up to 600 sources. Learn about Gemini notebook limits.
Notebooks can't use an existing notebook as a source.

Chat with your notebook

You can chat continuously with your notebook. Gemini remembers the context of your sources and instructions during this chat experience. Your chats in Gemini apps notebooks can include web searches and use of any Gemini tools.

Add an existing chat to a notebook

Go to gemini.google.com.
On the top left, click Open Sidebar .
Find the chat that you want to add to a notebook.
Next to the chat, click More Add to notebook .
Select the notebook you want to add the chat to.

Study notebooks

Study notebooks let you upload notes or study materials to create personalized, interactive lessons. Features include:

Diagnostic Quizzes: Take quizzes to identify knowledge gaps and strengths.
Personalized Lessons: Gemini builds bite-sized, interactive lessons based on quiz results and learning goals.
Progress Tracking: Lessons and recommendations automatically update as you complete activities and track your proficiency.

Tip: Study notebooks can be used to create flashcards and infographics from your course materials.

Create a study notebook

On your computer, go to gemini.google.com
On the top left, click Open Sidebar .
Click New notebook > Study and learn.
In the conversation to set up your study notebook, tell Gemini what your learning goal is. You can say things like:
- Help me prep for the ACT (JEE etc)
- Help me study for my Calculus midterm
Add additional details to customize your notebook.
- (optional) Click Add files [icon] to add study materials such as notes. You can upload files from your device or add from Google Drive.

Tips:

Your lessons, conversations, quizzes & tests, and uploaded sources can all be found in your study notebook. Learn how to find and manage your notebooks in Gemini Apps.
You can’t edit the goal of a study notebook. If you want to focus on a new goal, create a new notebook

Create a business notebook

When you connect your Google Business Profile with Gemini Apps you can create a business notebook to help you manage and grow your business. Learn how to manage your Business Profile on Google with the Gemini web app.

Manage & customize notebooks

You can customize, organize, and adjust settings for your notebooks.

Find your notebooks

Go to gemini.google.com.
On the top left, click Open Sidebar .
Under "All Notebooks," is a list of any notebooks you’ve created.

Rename a notebook

Go to gemini.google.com.
On the top left, click Open Sidebar .
Under "All Notebooks," find the notebook you want to rename.
Click More Rename .
Enter the new name. To change the emoji, click the current emoji and select a new one.

Give instructions for your notebook

You can create detailed instructions for Gemini Apps, like how to format responses or the tone you want it to use.

Go to gemini.google.com.
On the top left, click Open Sidebar .
Under "All Notebooks," click the notebook you want to create instructions for.
At the top right, click More Notebook settings .
Add the instructions for your notebook and then click Save.

Pin or unpin a notebook

You can pin your frequently used notebooks for easy access.

Go to gemini.google.com.
On the top left, click Open Sidebar .
Under "All Notebooks," click the notebook you want to pin.
At the top right, click More Pin or Unpin .

Your pinned notebooks appear at the top of your list of notebooks in Gemini Apps.

Delete a notebook

Important: If you delete a notebook, any sources or chats that you added to that notebook will also be deleted.

Go to gemini.google.com.
On the top left, click Open Sidebar .
Under "All Notebooks," click the notebook you want to delete.
At the top right, click More Delete.

Add & manage sources

You can add different types of information to your notebook to provide Gemini Apps with deep context.

Supported source types

Files from your device: PDFs, documents, spreadsheets, images, audio,, text files, files, and .md files. .
Files from Google Drive.
Websites/URLs
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