GoKawiilMegan Ellis / Android Authority
While I’ve long wanted to organize my Gemini chats and files into projects, when the feature arrived as Gemini Notebooks, I initially felt disappointed.
However, after playing around with the feature using both Gemini and NotebookLM, it’s more useful than I expected.
Have you tried Gemini's new Notebooks feature? 10 votes Yes, and I'm disappointed. 0 % Yes, and I like it. 0 % No, not yet. 100 %
My first impression of Notebooks wasn’t what I’d hoped
Megan Ellis / Android Authority
When I envisioned a projects feature in Gemini, I wanted it to be a useful place to organize files and chats into folders. This was based on my experience with Claude, especially its own projects feature, which makes it easy to organize files and chats under a specific folder.
But when Notebooks arrived on Gemini, I didn’t enjoy its NotebookLM integration. It felt like it was just a way for Google to push users to use both products rather than refining each separately.
The fact that your Gemini Notebooks also automatically sync to NotebookLM can be a drawback, since you don’t have unlimited notebooks available for your account.
After using the feature a bit more over a few days, I did come to appreciate its approach to organization — even if it wasn’t quite what I had hoped for. However, it’s when I realized what these notebooks could do for my NotebookLM research that I really came to value the integration of the two tools.
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