NotebookLM notebooks in Gemini Apps makes it easy to chat with your notebooks across Google products.
This integration gives you more ways to interact with your personal knowledge base:
- Your notebooks appear in Gemini: Notebooks you create in NotebookLM will now automatically appear in Gemini's navigation. You can view, edit, and chat with your notebooks from either NotebookLM or Gemini.
- Changes sync across apps: When you rename a notebook, add sources, or update custom instructions in one app, those changes sync to the other app. If you do not see your updates right away, try refreshing.
- Gemini chats can appear as context: Opt in to include chats with a notebook in Gemini as shared context across notebooks in Gemini and NotebookLM, helping to build your notebook's knowledge base over time.
- Sharing behavior: All shared notebooks created in NotebookLM, even ones you own, will not be visible in Gemini. You can continue to access these shared notebooks in NotebookLM as usual. Additionally, notebooks that contain Gemini chats are private and cannot be shared.
Learn how to create and use notebooks in Gemini Apps.
Gemini Chats in NotebookLM
When you chat with your notebook in Gemini, those conversations appear as context in your NotebookLM sources panel.
These Gemini chat threads:
- Are read-only in NotebookLM (you can't edit, rename, or remove them directly from NotebookLM; they must be managed in Gemini Apps).
- Contribute to your notebook's knowledge base, allowing NotebookLM to reference past Gemini conversations when answering your questions.
- Are visible to collaborators if you share your notebook.
Tip: Turning off Keep Activity or deleting Gemini Apps activity in Gemini Apps does not delete data in NotebookLM. Learn more about how Google services retain data.
Custom instructions
Your notebook uses a single set of custom instructions across both NotebookLM and Gemini. Any changes you make to your notebook's instructions in one app will apply in the other app as well. Learn more about how to use chat in NotebookLM.
Key differences between apps
Source grounding: Even though your notebooks are available in both apps, chat responses are grounded differently depending on the app you use:
- NotebookLM - Responses are grounded exclusively in your notebook sources.
- Gemini - Responses are grounded in your notebook sources, but may also include web search and other tools.
Artifacts: Gemini will not have the ability to generate items from the NotebookLM Studio panel. This includes the ability to make artifacts such as Audio Overviews, Video Overviews, Infographics, Slide Deck, etc. These features are only available in NotebookLM.
Deleting Notebooks and Gemini chats
Deleting a notebook in NotebookLM removes the notebook and its sources, but Gemini conversations return to your main Gemini chat list.
Availability
The Notebooks in Gemini integration is available to Gemini & NotebookLM users in supported regions. Some features may not be available in all regions. Learn more about NotebookLM’s availability.
Data use and retention
The files you add to your notebooks and the chats you have in NotebookLM will not be used directly to train our foundational generative AI models, unless you provide feedback. Learn more about privacy and terms of use in NotebookLM.
The chats you have with your notebook in Gemini Apps are saved according to your Keep Activity settings and used as described in the Gemini Apps Privacy Hub.
Tip: Turning off Keep Activity or deleting Gemini Apps activity in Gemini Apps does not delete data in NotebookLM. Learn more about how Google services retain data.