What is Gemini Notebook used for?
Gemini Notebook (formerly NotebookLM) is used to understand a set of documents: studying for exams, reviewing research papers, preparing briefings, onboarding to a new project and turning reading lists into Audio Overviews, quizzes and flashcards, all grounded in sources you choose.
In more detail
Because Gemini Notebook answers only from the sources you add, it suits work where you need to check where a claim came from. Students load lecture slides and readings, then generate study guides, flashcards, quizzes and, since September 2026, Interactive Learning Overviews. Researchers compare papers and find where they agree or disagree, with citations to each passage. Lawyers, analysts and consultants summarize long documents and prepare briefings. Teams copy a shared notebook (since August 2026) to start from a common set of sources. Commuters turn reading lists into Audio Overviews. It is less suited to open-ended questions about the world, which a general assistant such as Gemini or ChatGPT handles better. Many people collect material in those assistants and then capture the useful threads into a notebook with a tool like Gemini Notebook Toolkit.
Get one-click capture for NotebookLM
Gemini Notebook Toolkit saves ChatGPT, Claude, YouTube, Reddit, and any web page to NotebookLM in one click. Free to install.
Install Gemini Notebook Toolkit