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Gemini gets notebooks to help you organize projects

Google just copied ChatGPT's best feature. Here's why notebooks matter for AI workflows.

Reporting by The Verge AI 1 min brief
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Why it matters

Google is shipping Notebooks—a personal knowledge base feature that lets users organize files, conversations, and custom instructions within Gemini. This directly mirrors ChatGPT's Projects and signals a competitive shift toward context-aware, long-form AI work rather than one-off queries.

The key facts

6 to know

  1. Google Gemini launches 'Notebooks' feature

  2. Allows users to store files, past conversations, and custom instructions in single workspace

  3. Functions as personal knowledge base across Google products

  4. Direct competitor to ChatGPT's Projects (launched 2024)

  5. Notebooks provide contextual awareness for ongoing Gemini conversations

  6. Announced April 2026

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Publisher excerpt: Google's Gemini is getting a feature called "notebooks" to help you organize things about certain topics in a single place while using the AI chatbot, the company announced on Wednesday. You can pull in things like files, past conversations, and custom instructions into notebooks that Gemini can…
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