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Gemini Notebook
by Google
Formerly NotebookLM. Upload your own documents and ask questions about them, like having a researcher read everything for you.
FreeAI AgentMultimodal
Last checked: 29 September 2026
The details
- What it reads
- Works from the sources you add (documents, links, videos) and answers with citations. Newer agentic chat can also research and create files with or without sources, and each notebook now has a secure cloud computer that can run code for data analysis.
- Cost
- Free.
- Open Source?
- No
- Input / Output
- Your PDFs & docsURLsYouTube links in · Answers with citationsstudy guidesand podcast-style audio overviews out
Best for
- Q&A on your own documents
- Summarising reports & books
- Audio podcast summaries
- Study & research
Kevin’s take
“Upload a PDF and have a conversation with it. It can also create a two-voice podcast discussion of your documents. Completely free and genuinely clever.”
— Kevin, formerly of IT Support
Privacy snapshot
Generally SafePrivacy risk: Low
Google's research assistant. Upload your own documents — PDFs, notes, slides — and ask questions, get summaries, or generate an audio overview, all grounded in your own sources.
See what Gemini Notebook does with your data →Knowing the tool is just the start.
We teach non-tech people how to actually use AI — what to ask, how to ask it, and what to do with the answers. Tutorials, prompts, plain English. All of it.
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