By James Peckham
Publication Date: 2026-04-09 10:50:00
Google Gemini is rolling out dedicated spaces to help you organize your files, conversations, research, and more into individual projects.
The new feature, called notebooks, lets you keep everything related to a single topic in a dedicated space. Google says to think of these as “personal knowledge bases” shared across all of its products.
The option to add a new notebook will appear in Gemini’s side panel, so you can build out each project. It’ll ask for a notebook name, and then there’s an Add sources button to start building out the knowledge base.
You can use relevant files from your computer or Google Drive, as well as link to websites you want to use as references. There’s also an option to import text, or you can pull your previous conversations with Gemini into the notebook.
If you add a source to notebooks within Gemini, you’ll also find that accessible through NotebookLM and vice versa. Google says, “This continuity means you can use unique…