How many good Gemini chats have you lost in your history this month?
The one where you finally worked out your pricing. The competitor research. The plan for next quarter.
As of last week, you can save them into a notebook without leaving the chat.
Google made Gemini Notebook a connected app inside Gemini. Type @Gemini Notebook in any chat, and you can create notebooks, add sources, save notes and ask questions across everything you've saved.
It works on personal Google accounts, Workspace and Workspace Individual. And it's already switched on for you, unless you're in the European Economic Area.
(Google lists no paid plan for it, and it works on regular personal accounts. Nothing new to install.)
Right after this: four prompts that turn scattered chats into a research library, plus the one habit that makes it pay off.
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Right. Back to it.
What you can do from a chat
Create, edit or delete a notebook
Add a source, including a copy of the chat you're in
List what's in a notebook
Ask questions answered from your notebooks
You don't always have to type the @ either. Gemini can spot when a request needs your notebooks and use them on its own.
The four prompts
Swap in your own names, and call each notebook the same thing every time so you're never guessing which one is which.
Prompt 1. Start a notebook:
@Gemini Notebook create a notebook called "Client research"Prompt 2. Save the chat you're in:
Add a copy of this chat to my "Client research" notebookPrompt 3. Check what's in it:
Show me a list of all the sources in my "Client research" notebookPrompt 4. Ask across everything:
What do my notebooks say about [topic]?That last one is the payoff. Weeks of chats, answered in one question.
A workflow that works
Do your research in a normal Gemini chat.
When you get an answer worth keeping, save the chat to the right notebook.
Next time you need it, ask your notebooks instead of scrolling your history.
Turning it off
Don't want Gemini reaching into your notebooks? Go to Settings, then Connected Apps, in the Gemini app.
In the European Economic Area it's off by default, so that's also where you turn it on.
Make it stick
Make one notebook per client or project, and name it the way you'd say it out loud.
Then end every useful chat with prompt 2.
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Talk tomorrow,
Zephyr
P.S. What's the first notebook you're making? Hit reply with the name. I'm collecting good ones.