Gemini Notebook
Gemini Notebook (formerly, NotebookLM) is Google's AI-powered thinking and research assistant that uses your uploaded documents and other sources to generate summaries, extract key insights, answer questions, and create content such as audio overviews and presentations.
Cost
No CostAudience
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Key features
| Gemini Notebook Features | Students | Faculty/Staff |
Upload multiple source files: Combine PDFs, Docs, web links, notes, audio, and YouTube videos in one workspace | ||
Gemini Notebook chat: Ask questions, summarize, and extract insights grounded in your sources with citations | ||
Sources: Discover new web content within Gemini Notebook, review suggestions, and add them to your notebook | ||
Deep Research: Deep-dive search and analysis across web sources to expand your notebook | ||
Audio Overview: Generate AI-hosted audio discussions based on your uploaded reference materials | ||
Interactive Mode in Audio Overviews: Join the conversation to ask live questions and direct the Audio Overview hosts | ||
Slides: Create visual presentation drafts from your sources | ||
Video Overviews: Generate visual AI video presentations summarizing your notebook content | ||
Reports: Synthesize notebook materials into comprehensive written summaries and briefs | ||
Infographics: Turn text and source insights into visual summaries and diagrams | ||
| Mind Maps: Create interactive branching diagrams that summarize your uploaded sources, helping you see connections across themes and subtopics | ||
| Study Guides / Flashcards / Quizzes: Create study materials and knowledge checks grounded in your sources |
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FAQ
Gemini Notebook is designed specifically for source-grounded research and analysis. It restricts its responses to user-provided documents and provides precise inline citations for exact source verification.
- ChatGPT Projects are designed as a general organizational workspace. It structures ongoing conversations, custom instructions, and files across broader productivity, writing, or coding tasks.
Gemini Notebook uses Google's Gemini models to answer questions, summarize, analyze and generate content.
No. While restricting the AI to specific source documents reduces inaccuracies, language models may still occasionally misinterpret context or generate erroneous outputs. It is best practice to verify all AI-generated content.
Yes. It effectively processes complex reference materials. including PDFs, transcripts, and web sources, to extract key findings, map connections across multiple sources and draft structured research summaries.
Data privacy
Gemini Notebook is approved for ASU non-regulated, internal, and FERPA-protected data, but not for HIPAA or other regulated data. Google Workspace for Education protections apply, and Google does not use your uploads, prompts, or responses to train AI models or for human review.
Community & Support Channels
Need help?
If you have questions about using Gemini Notebook, post your question in the #ai-support channel on Slack. For help with access, login or account issues, contact the ASU Experience Center at (480) 965-6500 or 1-855-278-5080.
Have a success story?
Have you used Gemini Notebook in a way that's improved your teaching, learning, research or work? We'd love to hear about it. Share your experience in the #ai channel on Slack.