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TL;DR Google is preparing to let you add website links as sources to notebooks inside the Gemini app.
A new Students section could also bring study-notebook creation to Gemini on mobile.
We activated both features during our APK teardown of the app, but they’re still in development and may change before release.
Google has been steadily closing the gap between the Gemini app and Gemini Notebook, the standalone app previously known as NotebookLM. We’ve now spotted more work-in-progress changes under the hood of the app that should make notebooks in Gemini more useful, especially for research and study.
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The Gemini app already lets you create notebooks and add material from your chats or files, with those notebooks also syncing to appear in the Gemini Notebook app. When adding a source from within Gemini, the available options right now include your camera, gallery, local files, and Google Drive. Google is now preparing to add websites to that list.
Current options New options
The new Website option we managed to activate lets you paste one or more links for Gemini to use as notebook sources. Multiple URLs can be separated with a space or placed on different lines, but there are some predictable limitations. For example, Gemini will only add text that is visible on the webpage, while paid content and anything behind a login won’t be supported.
That should save you from having to copy webpage text into a document or download something before adding it to a notebook. Website sources are already supported by the standalone Gemini Notebook app, so this is another case of the notebook experience inside Gemini catching up with its more established sibling.
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