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Gemini
notebooks
A project space in the Gemini app. It keeps chosen sources, custom instructions and the chats inside it, and reuses them in every chat in that notebook. It syncs with Gemini Notebook.
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 (personal); rolling out wording not shown for Workspace
- Where you find it
- gemini.google.com → "All Notebooks"; new notebooks from the left side panel ("New notebook")
- Part of
- Gemini
- Plans
- personal accounts (source allowance varies by plan); Workspace work and school accounts since September 2026
- Admin must turn it on?
- no; on by default, controlled through the Gemini App and Gemini Notebook access settings
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.