NotebookLM is now Gemini Notebook

https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/products/gemini-notebook/notebooklm-gemini-notebook/

by xnx • 6 days ago

371 185 6 days ago

I wondered when the name change was coming as NotebookLM felt a bit out of place brand-wise. Still would have been killer if they called it "Bard Notebook"

forkerenok• 6 days ago

I wondered when the name change was coming because this is Google: products be endlessly repackaged and renamed, some only to be killed later.

mattkevan• 6 days ago

I reckon the same dipshits responsible for Microsoft’s product naming in the early 2000s all moved on to Google to wreak the same havoc there.

dotancohen3• 6 days ago

  > products be endlessly repackaged

I don't speak English at home either, so I hope this helps. It's "products are", not "products be".

conception• 6 days ago

I’ve noticed a lot of big corporations doing this and I think the reasoning behind it is it’s really easy to say you shipped a product on your résumé. If all you did was change the name of it. It actually takes a lot of work and time to ship a new innovative product.

wodenokoto• 6 days ago

openAI just renamed codex to ChatGPT app … I think it is just par for the game.

stabbles• 6 days ago

Banana Paper was on the shortlist

nicce• 6 days ago

Bard was a great name.

LurkandComment• 6 days ago

Next step, monitize every pixel, result and second into adveristing placement

navigate8310• 6 days ago

NorebookLM sounded a little scholastic

abirch• 6 days ago

Are there other tools out there like NotebookLM? Not a replacement but some cool AI tools that help people learn.

petra2• 6 days ago

Or maybe just a way to use chatgpt/Claude with files , and get accurate references to the page/paragraph in the source?

hek2sch7• 6 days ago

It's cumbersome to have llm duplicate all quotes and still get good response. Else you get no visibility into your sources.

jeromegv• 6 days ago

Claude/ChatGPT still end up making things up when they can't find anything, notebook is much better to 99% reply based on quotes. But yes a backup is to use Claude and grep, but not quite the same.

hek2sch7• 6 days ago

Best closest I stumble on is nouswise. Lets you contain an agent with even more sources and generate almost all outputs.

realsarm3• 6 days ago

Like how many sources? And what you mean by sources (tables pdfs...)?

petra2• 6 days ago

No pricing, "call for demo". Not sure this is for personal use.

neves4• 6 days ago

Microsoft Copilot in the Enterprise has is notebook feature

drusepth• 6 days ago

Very, very, very excited to hopefully stop getting support emails at Notebook.ai for people trying to get help with NotebookLM.

Gemini Notebook is a way better name for the masses.

iAMkenough• 6 days ago

In my experience (since Notebook is still in the name), you're going to get the same emails as before, now with additional people confused about the change and what it means for them.

staticman2• 6 days ago

They probably changed the name because they've been integrating it with the Gemini web page where it now appears on the left above recent chats.

batuhandumani• 6 days ago

In a few years, https://killedbygoogle.com/

delduca• 6 days ago

Years? :-)

minraws2• 6 days ago

Guys google, I know enough people in the company to know how this decision was made, but I must say as a user if you rename or kill another thing I will stop using any Google service I still use.

This might be the one time I might forgive it but guys please don't it's annoying.

frollogaston9• 6 days ago

They've been doing this kind of thing for at least 15 years

minraws2• 6 days ago

This is the first time it has happened to a tool I use and have helped friends adopt it.

Again I don't condone it but this gets very annoying to explain that everything is renamed now to X instead of Y to your uncles and friends...

johanyc2• 4 days ago

You have an 100% chance joining r/degoogled then lol

blfr• 6 days ago

I admonish Gemini and demand explanation nearly every day of how it's possible that Google invented the thing, has the best infrastructure for inference, and somehow falls behind Anthropic and even OpenAI.

NotebookLM is pretty cool since it can hold a ton of context but this is so far below my (and frankly just reasonable) expectations of Google.

I downgraded my Gemini subscription and got Claude. Still can't believe how much better it is. Fable is way better, that's a given. But Claude even has a real .deb repo. Something Antigravity had and managed to lose.

copperx• 6 days ago

Yeah, it grinds my gears. They could probably have lightning speed inference and the best model if they were interested in doing so.

dwa3592• 6 days ago

Antigravity sucks so bad that I have started to feel that google really doesn't wanna compete, they just wanna hang in there at number 2 or 3, to just annoy the number 1 and 2.

SwellJoe3• 6 days ago

For coding, I don't think they're even number 3, anymore. Seems more like 4th or 5th (unbelievably, even Mecha Hitler seems to do better, though I'm hopeful Gemini 3.5 Pro will turn things around).

lern_too_spel• 6 days ago

I tried Antigravity recently with Flash 3.5, and it got stuck in a loop saying the same sentence over and over. I haven't seen this pathological behavior from other LLMs in months.

Peanuts99• 6 days ago

I recently got a trial for the Google AI Pro subscription and it burned through a week's in a single prompt. Quite impressive for sure.

speak_plainly• 6 days ago

I share your sentiment. I'm still paying for Gemini but it's almost useless to me. Google has some serious internal problems. Perhaps Gemini is merely being plagued by aggressive cost controls, or perhaps there are deeper flaws in Google’s approach. Either way, I can't trust NotebookLM with serious work and have stopped using it.

Apple is placing a major bet on Google and Gemini for iOS 27. If Gemini's decline is any indication of what's to come, Apple could be in serious trouble in six month's time.

verdverm• 6 days ago

Google has some serious internal problems.

I suspect it is part leadership change (sundar/kurain) and over indexing on Ai for doing the job on top of a model that is just not as good (esp flash 3.5). Google Cloud / Gemini Enterprise sent me the greatest Slop Deck of all time. It was quite obvious it was Ai generated and the rep had only read a few slides of the 30+. I wonder if they are even aware after losing the sale

shellfishgene• 6 days ago

Also enshittification is slowly starting. Yesterday I asked Gemini (in the Android app) for a recommendation for an app for sound recording. Instead of it answering I got a popup to allow Gemini access to open the app store (or something like that, I didn't allow it). When I declined it just stopped the conversation. It was actually hard to get it to just reply with a list of apps. And I have an AI subscription with Google!

frollogaston9• 6 days ago

I was still using Gemini CLI even though Claude is better, just cause of inertia. Then one day it started refusing to work, saying I need to install Antigravity instead. Idk if that's an IDE or has a leaner CLI, but doesn't matter, I'm gone. I don't care how the sausage is made, don't randomly break the thing I'm using.

thornewolf• 6 days ago

My response is going to be about Gemini generally and less about NotebookLM.

Google's last frontier model release was Gemini 3.1 Pro, which was in February of this year[1]. At the time, it was ahead of the (at the time) flagship models of Opus 4.6 and GPT 5.2/5.3. From my recollection of the time, it was the best model in the world.

Anthropic released Opus 4.5 Nov '25, 4.6 in Feb '26, 4.7 in April, 4.8 in (late) May. Then Fable in June. 4.7 beat 3.1 Pro on multiple metrics. Fable eats it for breakfast. However, I want to note the 3 month gap between those first two Opus versions.

OpenAI released 5.2 Dec '25, 5.3 Codex Feb '26, 5.3 Instant Mar, 5.4 Mar, 5.5 (late) May, 5.6 July. 5.4 beats 3.1 Pro on agentic benchmarks[2], seems to be similar/losing on non-agentic. 5.5 seems stronger than 3.1 Pro[3].

Gemini 3.5 Pro is alleged to be launching within the week. Why do I type this all out? Because I think Google is getting a bad rap. They are delayed on a frontier release by a month or two and are being regarded as if they cannot release frontier models. I think their last release demonstrates strength and we need to see a weak release before we call them "behind" (in any reasonable sense). These companies swap back and forth constantly. I recall a multi-month span where 2.5 Pro was just the best thing out there by a large margin (in my opinion).

[1] https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/models-and-research/ge...

[2] https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-opus-4-7

[3] https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-opus-4-8

Chu4eeno• 6 days ago

I think you have rosy eyed glasses (or never inspected the output too closely), Gemini 3.1 Pro was very bad at hallucinating.

Revanche1367• 6 days ago

In my experience, Gemini 3.x wasn’t just getting a bad rap, it was significantly worse in practice. It could analyze codebases and report back from a one-shot prompt as good as Claude or Codex but any slightly complex task that carried on for more than a few minutes led to hanging, seemingly infinite loops, and bizarre and nonsensical hallucinations, to the point of being unusable for serious work. The Claude and Codex counterpart models at the time rarely had such issues for the same type and duration of complex work, if at all. To be fair, later Claude especially started having hanging issues as many people noticed but that’s been better recently.

tokioyoyo• 6 days ago

My wild guess is Google isn’t willing to play as dirty as the others wrt data acquisition.

baggachipz• 6 days ago

If it's named "Gemini", does that mean it's going to get shoved in your face on every single google-related page/product?

SecretDreams• 6 days ago

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nxYUizQrAg8&t=4s

aanet• 6 days ago

I fear the upcoming changes... It ALWAYS starts with a name change, then more useless features, more ensh*ttification, then users flee, then the product is killed.

Google:

- Hangout

- Chat

- Meets

- Duo

- ...

electriclove• 6 days ago

Allo?

frollogaston9• 6 days ago

Allo, Google Talk, Hangouts Chat (not the same as Hangouts), "Meet (original)", idk maybe some other thing called Google Chat that isn't the new Google Chat, uhh my Android phone has 2 "Messages" apps so one of them is probably deprecated?

ambicapter• 6 days ago

The new chat interface in google meets is hilariously bad. Doesn't even load half the time.

adamm255• 6 days ago

Wave. That was more of a tech preview though I guess.

dubcrab• 6 days ago

NotebookLM is genuinely useful for structured research workflows. My concern is not the name. It's whether the "notebook" metaphor survives the rebrand.

soupspaces• 6 days ago

Give me a recipe for custard pie

NoImmatureAdHom3• 6 days ago

I'd like to have audio overviews of scientific papers, so I can "read" them while I drive. NotebookLM/Gemini Notebook sorta does this, but the two-person podcast format is kind of annoying and it can't pronounce math.

Is there something out there that will do this? I'm sure the right harness around frontier models would make it work.

mistrial9• 6 days ago

random idea -- driving while you drive?

NoImmatureAdHom3• 6 days ago

1) you aren't able to listen to something safely while driving on the highway? 2) the cars pretty much drive themselves on the highway these days

larrywright• 6 days ago

Readwise does this pretty well.

hek2sch7• 6 days ago

How would the right format for you look like? Specially be monologue?

NoImmatureAdHom3• 6 days ago

It could be monologue or dialogue, but it should be less full of verbal "syntactic sugar" than NotebookLM podcasts. More to the point, more detail-oriented, can pronounce math.

Can pronounce math is the real showstopper for me. Last time I tried, NotebookLM would try to say the TeX out loud. Like underscore dollarsign...

goldenjm2• 6 days ago

Yes- I'm the founder of www.Paper2Audio.com, a text to speech service focused on accurately reading complex docs to you such as research papers. Our free plan lets you generate 56 hours of audio per week, using high quality voices.

Feel free to email if you have any questions or feedback.

PiersonMarks• 6 days ago

Paper2Audio is great - and if you're looking to have more editorial control over the outputs, check out Jellypod. You can choose your hosts, publish it to a website/RSS feed, edit scripts, etc.

goldenjm2• 6 days ago

Jellypod is great as well!

MarioMan• 6 days ago

Google Illuminate does this. I believe it was actually a precursor to Gemini Notebook. It uses a similar podcast generating model but tuned to keep things more technical and detailed.

https://illuminate.google.com/

SwellJoe3• 6 days ago

Because naming every product "Copilot" is going so well for Microsoft, I guess?

operatingthetan2• 6 days ago

But they renamed Gemini CLI to Antigravity CLI. And it's worse.

frollogaston9• 6 days ago

It's not just a rename, they broke the old one.

SwellJoe3• 6 days ago

That's not a rename, though, Antigravity is a new product.

Google is kinda famous for killing a product and replacing it with a worse one, though, so not very surprising.

simonw• 6 days ago

I was never sure what the "LM" stood for, so this makes sense to me.

BrokenCogs• 6 days ago

Language model?

Large model?

Learning machine?

annjose• 6 days ago

Apparently it is Language Model, as mentioned in the announcement of NotebookLM in 2023 [0].

Today we’re beginning to roll out Project Tailwind with its new name: NotebookLM, an experimental offering from Google Labs. It’s our endeavor to reimagine what notetaking software might look like if you designed it from scratch knowing that you would have a powerful language model at its core: hence the LM.

It's funny how similar that article's intro is to today's announcement.

[0] https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/technology/ai/notebook...

lvl155• 6 days ago

Company run by consultants and MBAs.

NguyenDat377• 6 days ago

I feel like the name reflect the product more. I have been using NotebookLM for studying and really like it. I wonder if with this name change, would there be a major change in Gemini Notebook ?

hek2sch7• 6 days ago

The backend has changed people experience more hallucinations. You can see their subs.

rhipitr• 6 days ago

Any people with insight on why this happens? From my corporate experience this generally happens when two teams are working on a similar thing, they complain about turf to leadership, and leadership either makes them consolidate efforts or chooses a winner. Is that what happens at Google a lot? Or do they just constantly tweak things to the point they cease to live or be used?

agloe_dreams• 6 days ago

I've always attributed this sort of thing to companies outgrowing any form of manageable structure. At a scale like google, each team gets so distant from various parts of other parts of the company and the management structure gets so deep that the whole thing kinda becomes a zombie. Each part is kinda stuck in its own myopic view of the world with no oversight. Like, if you had an org where the only thing you made was AI tools, you would probably have common branding and the CEO would spend real time trying to get the naming right, but Sundar probably forgets they even made Notebook LM.

Eventually, if something makes news or when they try to trim offerings, suddenly the company can focus on it and then does course corrections.

Something of note is that this is now the third name for this product, the first name was impressively bad and so myopic that it feels kinda hilarious.

They wanted to call it Tailwind. Like the #1 CSS framework on earth.

frollogaston9• 6 days ago

Sundar did know about all the chat apps though. It's one thing to have internally competing things, but that shouldn't be exposed to end users. I never had a lot of confidence in his leadership either, seemed like autopilot.

frollogaston9• 6 days ago

Google seems to have competing orgs especially when something becomes a company-wide priority. Before it was chat apps, now it's AI. Idk if it's intentional, but it did seem that way with Jetski vs Gemini CLI, where they decided Jetski was better and nixed the other. Also ChromeOS vs Android.

kridsdale1• 6 days ago

Jetski is a code name.

And it was replaced (I expect, don’t know for sure) because GeminiCLI was built on a code base and language that didn’t scale in performance for what people were doing.

mayneack• 6 days ago

I've seen this sort of thing happen when something starts small and no one cares and then it gets traction. Eg: If you have a tiny toy project that the engineers call one thing, you might publish it under that name. If it then gets the attention of some higher level marketing team, you might rebrand it to align with the rest of the company.

No idea if that happened here or in google generally.

nickvec• 6 days ago

I would imagine it's just a branding/marketing thing so that the product is directly associated by consumers as being within the Gemini ecosystem (and thus Google) from the product name alone. NotebookLM doesn't convey that, but Gemini Notebook does.

mlmonkey• 6 days ago

You are evaluated by launches. If you have nothing of substance to launch, then launch a rebrand.

It is a sign of an organization that has nothing of substance to show off. Sadly, that's where Google is now: while its competitors are busy launching new features and improved models, Sir Demis' merry band of pranksters is busy renaming and rebranding things.

d4rkp4ttern6• 6 days ago

When notebookLM was new, it was interesting to listen to the podcasts. Then the novelty wore off, and I wanted something where I can interact with the podcasters but it was janky as hell.

My current “audio-learning” hack is ChatGPT Live which has become shockingly good after being awful compared to Claude Voice (Let’s not even talk about Gemini voice which is still bad).

I go on a walk and dump a paper or article link in the chat, and ask chatGPT Live to walk me through the content in small nuggets, so I can discuss them interactively. For deeper topics I have it quiz me Socratic style so I’m not just passively listening, and actually thinking through problems or ideas.

citiguy• 6 days ago

Oh wow, this is a great idea. Can I ask what your prompt looks like?

d4rkp4ttern6• 6 days ago

Me:

    Ok so I'm going on a walk. I'll dump a link to a Hacker News   
    discussion about an article. 
    You have to read the article and the discussion and walk me thru   
    all the interesting details, nugget by nugget, and move on when 
    I'm ready for the next piece.

ChatGPT Live:

    ok, Great show me the link, I'm waiting.

(I paste the link)

Me:

    Ok I pasted it. Now go.

====

For the Socratic quiz I say:

    I want to understand this more deeply. So instead of you just telling me
    everything, lay out the problem and a question for me to think about, and 
    I'll try to answer. Even if I answer wrong, you should resist giving me the
    answer, and instead keep digging with more questions, so that I eventually 
    arrive at the answer myself.

I also have a Socratic quiz skill that I wrote for using in Claude Code or Codex to understand implementations/architecture etc:

https://pchalasani.github.io/claude-code-tools/plugins-detai...

lardosaurusrex• 6 days ago

hack
podcast slop
letting the llm do it for you

there is a very good reason microsoft's ceo got repeatedly dunked on and it was because he literally couldn't stop babbling incoherently about having AI listen to things for him

i cannot imagine just sucking the joy out of life like this.

estearum2• 6 days ago

This may come as a surprise, but some people have to ingest large amounts of information for reasons other than producing joy.

pmarreck5• 6 days ago

you must be this guy

https://x.com/peregrinepulp/status/2077839461749338560?s=46&...

satvikpendem2• 6 days ago

They do it for joy when they go on a walk, so perhaps what you find joyful are different than them, not sure why you care.

pmarreck5• 6 days ago

The limit of these things being at least partially due to the users’ imagination explains at least some of the terrible criticisms I see out there which do not stand up to scrutiny. Perfect example just now in the wild: https://x.com/peregrinepulp/status/2077839461749338560?s=46&...

anyway, your idea is sweet, likely because you are smart

siquick• 6 days ago

There is actually an interrupt mode in NotebookLM now.

Overall I've found it the best AI product Google have. Only complaint I have about it is the hyper positive US corporate accents get pretty annoying pretty quickly.

The realtime voice in ChatGPT is excellent, the newer model is a big step up too.

fumeux_fume• 6 days ago

I wonder how much of the annoying aspects of the podcasters can be controlled by the custom user instructions. I hate sitting through the patter of how "we're not political, just reporting the views of the sources."

toddmorey2• 6 days ago

Yeah I think the podcasts were just a clever hack until AI is fast enough to support realtime. It’s practically there now, so a fake podcast is a funny relic and hard to sit through.

d4rkp4ttern6• 6 days ago

Too much friction in notebookLM - several minutes to make a podcast, and they disappear after a while, and the interrupt feature is super-janky.

theshrike79• 5 days ago

The new ChatGPT voice has a MASSIVE vocal fry, like to ridiculous levels.

It did tone it down when I asked though, but a crazy default.

21asdffdsa123• 6 days ago

Moving mind in a moving body. Maybe the future of coding really is a philosophical debate with a dhjinn.. i like this a lot. bravo.

I actually can see this as advertisement USP. Some lone hiker going up a mountain through nature to a peak, while the city in the valley below far away becomes functional again because of what is said in that debate about .. walking for ideas - hunted down savanna mode similar to Darwin and all the other old thinkers.

21asdffdsa123• 6 days ago

lets expand on this idea.. augment reality overlay showing the resulting code in what you are looking at.. persistence is the ground.. model + business logic is the surroundings.. API is in the clouds..

msh• 6 days ago

notebook LM is still much much better at not hallucinating compared to claude and chatgpt.

d4rkp4ttern6• 6 days ago

Yes Claude voice refuses to actually read the article and relies on snippets it finds in web searches and often pretends to have read the article, and when pushed admits it really didn’t. ChatGPT Voice used to have this issue as well, but the new Live mode (released just a few weeks ago) fixed all that, and it actually pauses and reads the article and does real web searches during the conversation.

ctkhn• 6 days ago

I never got into the podcasts side but it was good for synthesizing multiple documents in a way chatgpt or google's ai overview couldn't, but now I will just dump a couple PDFs into a new chat in Ollama and then ask it questions about the content. Is there another killer app for notebookLM out there?

toddmorey2• 6 days ago

I can’t believe how bad Claude’s voice mode is. So much latency and it often tells me “this is rather technical” and would be better talking it out over text.

OpenAI has much less latency, can adapt to speak about any topic (though will tell you it put a code sample to look at later), and it just feels like brainstorming with a colleague.

If you haven’t tried the live voice version of ChatGPT recently, you should. I love to brainstorm ideas while on walks and it’s fabulous for that.

Ask it to summarize the conversation into a doc that will be waiting for you when you are back at your desk.

scarab92• 6 days ago

Is there a way to make the ChatGPT live experience less dumbed down?

It just wants to stay at a superficial level, while annoyingly mimicking human traits like “hmmms” and “umms”

I’ve found the better approach is to dictate into the text version and have it read the response. The responses are way better, so long as they don’t contain a table.

_doctor_love• 5 days ago

I like the podcast features still for getting an overview or orientation on a new topic where I know I need a big context dump before I can begin to do anything under my own speed.

I have tried the "walk and talk" pattern with AI, and it's okay, but I find that it can be kind of janky if the network connection isn't very good. And I find it very frustrating to use still in terms of how the interrupt feature works. For example, if I'm out hiking and there's even a little bit of wind, the voice mode of ChatGPT and Gemini both will think that I'm done talking and begin responding.

In fairness to the AI vendors, I imagine that this is a very difficult thing to get right. Humans have a very natural sense of flow in conversation, and knowing when a speaker is done talking and it's appropriate to begin responding.

audioh4cker• 6 days ago

Not a big deal to be honest. Still works just as great.

realsarm3• 6 days ago

Technically not https://www.reddit.com/r/notebooklm/comments/1ss53l5/halluci...

There's a lot of these in their sub.

dizhn• 6 days ago

Why? tho

brgsk• 6 days ago

big news

outlore• 6 days ago

Sure it’s not “Gemini AI Pro Max Duo Notebooks for Workspace Personal”? /s

yuvadam• 6 days ago

Incredible how I have not touched a singled AI thing from google for.. probably well over a year at this point. Amazing.

UncleOxidant2• 6 days ago

My problem with NotebookLM was that you had to give it URLs or docs, you couldn't just have it search for docs and then incorporate them into your research.

neves4• 6 days ago

Search for references and ask me if they stop l should be added to my notebook.

Maybe Google can do some search

satwikhebbar• 6 days ago

I used it a couple of days back and they did have a search integration to pull in references. You may want to try this again.

UncleOxidant2• 5 days ago

Oh, good. They did add a search capability. It was kind of odd how before NotebookLM wasn't well integrated with Google search at all.

alvah• 5 days ago

They added search & deep research ages ago.

Alien1Being• 6 days ago

I used it to listen to a high level walkthrough of interesting and entertaining code while driving to work.

Of course I then read the source myself afterwards.

So far I have used it for the Plan 9 C code for ed and for the C source for Karpathy's toy llm. I plan to use it later today for the ed source from Unix Ver 1 in the original PDP 7 assembly code.

Hearing it talk about Ken Thompson's bit stealing trick was enlightening.

Since I am not a C programmer, getting a bird's eye view first is useful.

nunez• 6 days ago

Much better name for this well-designed product. I do wish they made it easier to pull in emails. For the one notebook I needed to make, I had to use gyb and mhonarc to retrieve the emails (from GMail), convert them to text and split them in a way that the Notebook would accept.

cadamsdotcom• 6 days ago

NotebookLM got moved one step closer to the abattoir.

tap-snap-or-nap• 6 days ago

DeathNotebook LM goes to Google Graveyard

m4rtink• 6 days ago

So now they renamed it to Gemini, it means Google will shut it down soon, right ?

mistakevin2• 6 days ago

I've been working on https://notebooker.ai if anyone is interested in giving some feedback. I tried to post a Show HN yesterday with details about how I built it, but was auto-flagged and not sure what rules I broke. Everything that I've built on top of open-notebook, like the plugin system for your own "creators" (aka, podcasts, infographics, etc) is at https://github.com/Notebooker-ai plus a Cloudflare Worker AI deployer to play with different models. Been working on it for about six months.

vismit2000• 6 days ago

Hi. Most likely you would have been flagged because of login / sign up requirement to try it out which is generally not received very well on HN.

mkl• 6 days ago

The rules are here (linked at the top of the Show HN page): https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html

I agree it's likely the sign-up barrier, but also the button says "Open the web app" and then it doesn't open the web app.

You can email the mods for advice/info on this sort of thing (Contact link at the bottom).

mistakevin2• 6 days ago

Does "Open the web app" not just redirect you to https://app.notebooker.ai?

0xbadcafebee• 6 days ago

This Gemini Notebook is apparently different than Notebooks in Gemini (which did not work well as of a few days ago). (https://support.google.com/gemini/answer/16972047?sjid=14524...)

gregjw• 6 days ago

makes sense!

SamPentz• 6 days ago

notebookLM is one of the most useful applications on this planet

SunlightEdge2• 6 days ago

Does anyone know when notebook llm will be able to accept all file types? I've got round it for understanding small repos by copying and pasting in the files as text. But not possible for big repos

wonderfuly• 6 days ago

What file type do you need?

SunlightEdge2• 6 days ago

python (.py) JavaScript are main but ideally all file types so I can just drop a folder into the notebook and Gemini can go explore.

neves4• 6 days ago

I reality like notebook LM. MT enterprise Microsoft copilot also has a notebook, similar to Google.

How do you compare different notebooks. Which is the better one?

toephu2• 6 days ago

While all the other AI labs are releasing new models weekly or monthly...we have Google here busy renaming their AI products (NotebookLM -> Gemini Notebook, and Gemini CLI -> Antigravity CLI)

getravi• 6 days ago

Surely it will be called Antigravity Notebook in a few months.

aizk• 6 days ago

Who cares they're gonna discontinue it 6 months from now anyway.

runtime_lens• 6 days ago

I think the real value of NotebookLM was never the podcast itself. It was making long documents feel approachable. Once voice becomes interactive instead of one-way, it starts feeling less like a podcast and more like having partner.

jillesvangurp• 6 days ago

It seems Google is repeating it's mistakes of chat apps (they had gazillions of those at some point) with AI. There are just way too many tools that they are pushing. And none of them address the glaring issue that most of their users end up using Codex or Claude Cowork instead. Google is failing hard at convincing their own users that they are as good. They seem to have a lot of fragmented efforts that don't really add up to good enough.

stingraycharles• 6 days ago

“It seems Google is repeating its mistakes of chat apps (they had gazillions of those at some point) with AI.”

It’s just a product of how Google is organized, it’s very distributed with less top down product management than other organizations.

It’s interesting that they still haven’t seen reason enough to fix this, I can only assume it works well for them in other ways.

“Google is failing hard at convincing their own users that they are as good.”

It’s interesting as they very quickly caught up after their own “code red” a few years back, and ever since seem to be going full Google and fragmenting themselves into irrelevance.

They do have their tensor processors, though, so they have a huge advantage there.

TheJoYo• 5 days ago

I wish the PDF support was better. I want to see the source of the generated summary 90% of the time and that's not happening with PDFs.

NotebookLM is now Gemini Notebook

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