What's New in Gemini Notebook

A short refresher on the latest Gemini Notebook updates

What this course covers

The course runs across 7 topics, each one a short adaptive session rather than a recorded lecture. The tutor explains the idea, works an example, checks understanding, and adjusts the next step to the answer given.

Use your notebooks from inside a Gemini chat — What's different: Gemini Notebook is now a connected app in the Gemini app, so you can type @Gemini Notebook in a chat to create a notebook, add sources, save notes or ask what your notebooks say. Why it matters for your work: You can save useful chats and pull facts from your research without switching between apps. Try it (about 2 minutes): In the Gemini app, type "@Gemini Notebook what do my notebooks say about" followed by a topic you have researched, then check the answer against the notebook. Needs: the Gemini app. No access? Here's what you'd see: In the Gemini app chat, typing @Gemini Notebook lets you create notebooks, add sources, save notes, or ask what your notebooks say.
Write in Google Docs using a notebook's sources — What's different: In Google Docs, you can type @ in the Gemini side panel or bottom bar to pick one of your notebooks, and Gemini will write from those sources with citations. Why it matters for your work: Drafts like proposals and briefs can be based on research you already checked, and the citations make facts easy to verify. Try it (about 2 minutes): Open a Google Doc, open Gemini, type @ and choose a notebook, then ask for a one-page summary and select a citation to check one fact. No access? Here's what you'd see: Typing @ in the Gemini side panel or bottom bar in Google Docs lets you select a notebook to write from sources with citations.
Notebooks in the Gemini app for work accounts — What's different: People signed in with work or school Google accounts can now create notebooks in the Gemini app, and these notebooks sync with Gemini Notebook. Why it matters for your work: You can keep one project's files and chats together and use both Gemini and Gemini Notebook on the same material. Try it (about 2 minutes): In the Gemini app, open the left side panel, choose the option to start a new notebook, add two project files, then open Gemini Notebook and find the same notebook there. Needs: the Gemini app. No access? Here's what you'd see: An option to start a new notebook appears in the left side panel of the Gemini app for work and school accounts.
Plan slides and videos before they are made — What's different: When you ask for a Slide Deck or Video Overview, Gemini Notebook can now suggest topics, format and style, and with the review option on you can read and change the outline or producer notes before it builds the final version (the review step may depend on your plan). Why it matters for your work: You get a deck or video that fits your audience the first time, instead of making several versions and throwing them away. Try it (about 2 minutes): In a notebook's chat, ask "Make a short slide deck for my team about these sources," turn on the review option, read the outline in Studio, add one change such as "start with a summary," then choose to proceed. No access? Here's what you'd see: In Gemini Notebook, users see suggested topics, formats, and styles, and can use a review option to edit outlines in Studio.
Interactive learning overviews in Reports — What's different: Under Reports you can now make an interactive learning overview that walks through your material step by step and mixes in summaries, quizzes, flashcards and other Studio outputs. Why it matters for your work: It turns a pile of documents into a guided path, which helps when you need to learn a new topic or train others. Try it (about 2 minutes): In Studio, open Reports, choose the interactive option with the Learning Overview template, then add one of the suggested quizzes or flashcard sets.
Also new — - Record audio notes in the mobile app: The mobile app now includes an audio recorder to capture and chat about voice notes. - Short Video Overviews of about 60 seconds: Video Overviews now offer a one-minute Short format in more than 80 languages. - Talk with your notebook out loud on mobile: Adults can now have real-time spoken conversations with their notebooks using the mobile app. - Your notebooks now show up in AI Mode in Search: Notebooks now appear in AI Mode in Google Search for users outside the European Economic Area. - Copy a notebook someone shared with you: You can now copy a shared notebook, including its sources and Studio outputs, if permitted. - Add free textbooks to a notebook as sources: You can now browse and add free textbooks from selected publishers to your notebooks as sources. - More quiz types and feedback on your results: Quizzes now support new question types, and you can ask the chat for feedback on your results. - Add purchased Google Play ebooks as sources: You can now add eligible purchased Google Play ebooks to your notebooks as sources. - Admins can now allow sharing outside your company: Workspace admins can now enable notebook sharing outside the organization, including trusted domains or public links. - Add sources automatically with Workspace Studio: Workspace Studio now includes a step to automatically add sources to a notebook in workflows.
Try one on your own work — Pick the one main change from this course that is most useful to your job. Try it in your own Gemini Notebook on a real task, then paste or describe what you got. The coach gives short, specific feedback. No access to the app or plan it needs? Describe how you would use it on a real task this week. That counts too. There is no score and no pass or fail: finishing this completes the course.

Skills you build

Results are measured against named skills in the OneRange taxonomy of more than 10,000 skills, so a manager sees proficiency per skill rather than a completion tick.

Who it is for

The material is pitched at intermediate level, and takes roughly 20 minutes at a typical pace. Because every session adapts, someone who already knows a topic moves through it quickly instead of sitting through an explanation they do not need.

It sits in the Tool: Gemini Notebook track of the Vero AI Catalog, and can be assigned to one person, a team, or the whole company.

How it is delivered and assessed

Delivery is conversational and interactive. There is no video to sit through and no slide deck to click past.

Understanding is checked with a lab assessment, with a pass mark of 70%.

Administrators can copy this course into their own library and adapt it — edit the outline, change the duration, swap the assessment format, or ground it in internal documentation so answers cite the company's own source material.

Also in this track

Gemini Notebook (formerly NotebookLM) for Knowledge Work — This course shows how to turn your own documents into a grounded, queryable knowledge assistant with Gemini Notebook (formerly NotebookLM). Learners upload sources, run grounded Q&A, generate summaries and briefings, and create audio overviews while understanding the tool's limits. They leave able to make internal knowledge instantly searchable

Frequently asked questions

How long does this course take?

It runs roughly 20 minutes at a typical pace. Because every session adapts, someone who already knows a topic moves through it quickly instead of sitting through an explanation they do not need.

How is it assigned to a team?

An administrator assigns it from the Vero dashboard to one person, a team, a department or the whole company, and sees progress and results per person and per skill.

Can we customise it with our own documents and terminology?

Yes. Administrators can copy this course into their own library and adapt it — edit the outline, change the duration, swap the assessment format, or ground it in internal documentation so answers cite the company's own source material.

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