Get started with notebooks in AI Mode

Use notebooks in AI Mode to create organized spaces for your projects and research. Your notebooks automatically sync across AI Mode, Gemini, and Gemini Notebook, allowing you to ground your interactions in specific source materials and provide custom instructions to get more relevant, personalized assistance tailored to your specific goals.

Important: Your instructions and sources will be synced across those services, but Gemini and Gemini Notebook chats will not sync with AI Mode.

What you need

You must be signed in to a personal Google Account that you manage on your own.
For the best experience, enable history and personalized recommendations.

Create a notebook in AI Mode

On your computer, go to AI Mode.
On the left, select AI Mode history .
Select Add notebook.
You can also access your existing notebooks from Gemini Notebook and Gemini in the Notebooks section.
Give your new notebook a name. This name helps you organize your notebooks and also helps you find the notebook in Gemini Notebook and Gemini.

Tip: You can also add an emoji to customize your notebook.

Go to the Ask anything box, and enter your prompt to start your notebook.

Tip: Your sources and instructions are synced across Gemini Notebook, AI Mode and Gemini.

Manage your notebook in AI Mode

You can easily organize, customize, and manage your notebook settings

Add or remove sources from your notebook

On your computer, go to AI Mode.
On the left, select AI Mode history .
Under Notebooks, you can either create a new notebook or find a list of any notebooks you’ve created.
In your notebook, select Add sources to add files and URLs that can be referenced in your notebook.
You can add files, website URLs as well as copied text as a source in your notebook.

Supported source types:

Files from your device: PDFs, documents, spreadsheets, images, text files, files, and .md files.
Websites/URLs.
Copied text.

Tip: Any source you add to a notebook in AI Mode will also be applied to the notebook in Gemini Notebook and Gemini.

Rename a notebook

On your computer, go to AI Mode.
On the left, select AI Mode history .
Under Notebooks, you can either create a new notebook or find a list of any notebooks you’ve created.
In your notebook, select Rename .

Give instructions to your notebook

On your computer, go to AI Mode.
On the left, select AI Mode history .
Under Notebooks, you can either create a new notebook or find a list of any notebooks you’ve created.
In your notebook, select Edit instructions .
Add the instructions for your notebook. For example:
- Respond like you're talking to a middle school student.
- Recommend only vegetarian restaurants.
Select Save.

Tip: Any instructions you add to a notebook in AI Mode will also be applied to the notebook in Gemini Notebook and Gemini.

Add AI Mode thread to your notebook

On your computer, go to AI Mode.
On the left, select AI Mode history .
Under Recent, go to the AI Mode thread you would like to add to your notebook.
- You can also Search threads to find the thread you want to add.
Select the thread, select Add to notebook .
Select the notebook you want to add the thread to.

Delete a notebook

Important:

If you delete a notebook in AI Mode, it will also delete the notebook in Gemini Notebook and Gemini.
Deleting a notebook in AI Mode removes the notebook and its sources, but AI Mode threads return to your Recent threads list.

On your computer, go to AI Mode.
On the left, select AI Mode history .
Under Notebooks, you can either create a new notebook or find a list of any notebooks you’ve created.
In your notebook, select Delete .

How notebooks work with Gemini Notebook & Gemini

Notebooks are connected across AI Mode, Gemini, and Gemini Notebook. The sources you add to notebooks are not used directly for training Google generative AI models. Depending on your settings, AI Mode threads in your notebooks are saved to your Search history, and can be used as described in Google’s Privacy Policy, including to show you ads and to help improve Google generative AI models.

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