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Gemini
Gemini Notebook
A separate research tool where you collect sources into notebooks and ask questions grounded in them. Notebooks can also be attached to Gemini chats and tasks.
Which capability it is
- A workspace that keeps your material (Persistent context container)
The same thing at other vendors
Microsoft Copilot
Copilot Notebooks — paid licence (one page disagrees)
Perplexity
Projects (formerly Spaces)
Meta AI and Muse
None — nearest: Muse side chats
Details
- Status
- GA (rename rolling out)
- Where you find it
- standalone app; in Gemini tasks, Upload & tools > Add Notebook
- Plans
- all Workspace customers, Workspace Individual subscribers and personal accounts with access
- Admin must turn it on?
- Yes for Workspace. The NotebookLM service setting must be on.
- Former names
- NotebookLM (July 16, 2026)
Learn
Where we teach it
Give it your context once is the module where you build a workspace from your own reference material, use it instead of re-explaining, and hand a copy to a colleague. It's in our one-day class.