Google Twins provides custom spaces to help you organize your files, conversations, research, and more into individual projects.
A new feature called Notebooks allows you to keep everything related to a single topic in one place. Google he says thinking of these as “personal knowledge bases” shared across all of their products.
The option to add a new notebook will appear in the Gemini sidebar, so you can set up each project. It will ask for the name of the notebook and then there is one Add sources button to start creating the knowledge base.
You can use relevant files from your computer or Google Drive and link to websites you want to use as references. There is also an option to import text or you can capture your previous conversations with Gemini in a notebook.
If you add a resource to notebooks within Gemini, you can also access it through NotebookLM and vice versa. Google says: “This continuity means that even if you run a notebook in Gemini, you can use the unique features of each application in NotebookLM, such as Video Previews and Infographics.”
The feature is now available on the web for Google AI Plus, Pro, and Ultra subscribers, but won’t be visible to those with Workspace or Education accounts. Google has also confirmed that it won’t work for users under 18.
It’s not clear why this is, especially given that Google’s marketing focuses on the educational benefits of laptops, emphasizing how they’re useful for studying for projects or revising for exams.
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Google notes that it plans to roll out the notebook feature to its free users “in the coming weeks,” with plans to bring the tools to the mobile version of Gemini soon.
ChatGPT It has a similar organizational feature called Projects, where you can keep files and conversations together to make sure you don’t lose track of things and build useful knowledge bases.
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