Gemini gets a big upgrade with this long-awaited feature

Google has rolled out plenty of improvements to Gemini in the last few months, but it still lacks one basic organizational feature: folders. This is a feature that ChatGPT and Claude have offered for ages. Google is finally catching up to its competitors and announced support for notebooks in Gemini — essentially a folder for your chats, but more powerful.

You can create new notebooks in Gemini on the web and move your chats to it for better organization. As seen on ChatGPT and Claude, you can also give custom instructions and add relevant files, including PDFs and documents, to provide Gemini with more context about that project.

This will help Google's AI assistant to provide more personalized and tailored responses as it will use the shared information alongside its own sources and the web.

Thankfully, you can move your existing conversations to new notebooks in Gemini as well.

What makes Google's notebook implementation in Gemini more powerful is that it syncs with NotebookLM as well. So, any notebook that you create in Gemini will appear in NotebookLM and vice versa.

This deep integration will enable you to have a detailed conversation with Gemini on the web and then move to NotebookLM to generate Infographics or Video Overviews.

Google AI subscribers get priority access

Notebooks in Gemini start rolling out from this week on the web for Google AI Ultra, Pro, and Plus subscribers. Its availability will expand to mobile, free users, and more countries in the coming weeks.

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Google was spotted working on project support in Gemini months ago, so this feature has been a long time coming. Its addition finally closes a key usability gap between Gemini and its AI rivals.

Notebooks come to Gemini less than a month after the company rolled out Personal Intelligence support to even free users in the US. It enables you to connect Gemini to your Workspace account to provide more detailed and proactive insights based on your emails and documents.