Gemini gets notebooks to help you organize projects

The Verge / 4/9/2026

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Key Points

  • Google announced “Notebooks” for Gemini, letting users organize project/topic-related materials in a single place while chatting with the AI.
  • Notebooks can include files, prior conversations, and custom instructions, and Gemini uses that notebook content as context during new interactions.
  • Google positions Notebooks as personal knowledge bases that can be shared across Google products, with syncing to other services implied by the rollout.
  • The feature is similar in concept to ChatGPT’s “Projects” launched in 2024, suggesting a broader industry move toward persistent, organized workspaces for LLMs.
Illustration of the Google Gemini logo.

Google's Gemini is getting a feature called "notebooks" to help you organize things about certain topics in a single place while using the AI chatbot, the company announced on Wednesday. You can pull in things like files, past conversations, and custom instructions into notebooks that Gemini can then use as context while you're talking with it.

Notebooks sound a lot like ChatGPT's Projects feature, which launched in 2024 and similarly lets users store things about a certain topic in one spot. Google says to "think of notebooks as personal knowledge bases shared across Google products, starting in Gemini." Gemini's Notebooks also sync with …

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