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Gemini arrived late to the party where ChatGPT was already a star. Even up until recently, the Gemini app, both on the desktop and mobile, was pretty basic. It simply lets you create new chats and talk about the subject matter — without any memory of your past chats or a way to organize any of it. ChatGPT, on the other hand, felt much more advanced and well thought out, as if it had its act together.
Thankfully, Google heard our feedback — and how. Google has gone full throttle with Gemini’s app and has been adding new features at such a rapid pace that it has left ChatGPT far, far behind. The chat organization feature that I have been eagerly waiting to see on Gemini has landed in such a sophisticated form that it truly shows the strong grip that Google has on its cross-platform apps.
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ChatGPT helps you organize your chats under folders that it calls projects. I have a bunch of projects in there for things like personal growth, my creative writing, health, home improvement, and whatnot. While it does help organize the chats in a single folder rather than having to scroll through hundreds of them and find the right one when you are in a hurry, these folders aren’t as segregated as they look.
You can give specific instructions for each of these projects to let ChatGPT know how to answer across chats within that project. However, it doesn’t have a project-specific memory and uses all your chats within ChatGPT as a reference to answer your query, rather than focusing primarily on that very project to get you the answers. That’s the very problem Gemini has fixed with its own alternative.
All these trinkets create a project-wise bubble for you to operate within, which is particularly crucial for segregating work stuff.
Gemini’s version is called Notebooks (I know it rings a bell, but more on that later), and it does a couple of things better than ChatGPT, making it much more intuitive to use. For starters, much like ChatGPT, you can create custom instructions for that particular notebook, and on top of that, Gemini lets you enable an option that considers all chats in that notebook’s memory to give you an answer.
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