Google is adding a 'notebooks' feature to Gemini, announced Wednesday, letting users bundle files, past conversations, and custom instructions into persistent context bundles the model draws from during chats.
This is a direct parallel to ChatGPT's Projects feature, which OpenAI shipped in 2024. Google frames notebooks as 'personal knowledge bases shared across Google products,' with Gemini as the starting point and broader product sync implied.
The cross-product sync angle is the detail worth reading the full piece for: if notebooks extend meaningfully into Workspace, Drive, or NotebookLM, the feature stops being a ChatGPT copycat and starts being something structurally different.
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