Gemini notebooks are officially arriving on your smartphone, available for both free and paid users.
Essential Information
- Gemini Notebooks are now mobile-friendly, and for once, Google isn’t concealing the best features behind a paywall.
- This feature transforms Gemini into a project management tool, allowing you to organize chats and files instead of managing unrelated threads.
- Your current NotebookLM notebooks sync with the mobile app, enabling you to store chats directly into them as sources.
Initially launched on the web as a research-oriented tool, Notebooks are now accessible on mobile via Google Gemini. This time around, both free and paid users can utilize the feature directly within the app, free from paywalls.
If you missed the initial rollout, Google started integrating Gemini and NotebookLM back in December. It originally launched on the web, allowing the chatbot to utilize your research references. Earlier this month, Google incorporated notebooks directly within Gemini, providing a space to organize files and conversations by project.
Previously, access to this feature was limited to users subscribed to AI Premium, Pro, or Ultra plans. Now, the NotebookLM team announced on X that it is accessible to all users in the Gemini mobile application.
How it operates on your smartphone
These notebooks function like enhanced project folders. Instead of scrolling through a lengthy list of unrelated conversations, you can categorize discussions and documents together. For instance, if you’re organizing a trip or researching a new smartphone, you can consolidate all related discussions in one notebook.
Now, your private notebooks from NotebookLM are visible in the Gemini app, and you can compile your mobile conversations into those notebooks as sources.
Bear in mind that while everyone can access the feature, the quantity of sources you can include in each notebook is determined by your subscription plan:
- Free users: 50 sources