Google rebrands NotebookLM as Gemini Notebook, enhancing its focus on research and analysis, but highlights remain on improving organisation, source management, and enterprise connectivity amid ongoing development.
Google’s decision to rebrand NotebookLM as Gemini Notebook is more than a cosmetic change. According to Google’s announcement, the service is being positioned as a more central research workspace, with notebook content now tied more closely to the broader Gemini app and Google Search. The company has also added code execution inside notebooks, a sign that it wants the product to move beyond simple note-taking into deeper analysis and structured study.
That shift matters because the product already feels more capable than a standard AI assistant. Android Authority noted that recent additions such as Collections make it easier to organise related notebooks, while a recent APK breakdown suggested that Google may soon let users add website links as sources directly inside Gemini. Together, those changes point to a tool that is becoming more usable for long-form research rather than isolated prompts.
Even so, there are still basic gaps. Android Authority argued that one of the most useful additions would be a native way to merge notebooks, especially for students or teams working in stages across several workspaces. The publication also highlighted the lack of a simple source-download option, which can become a problem if users later need to revisit original PDFs or documents without hunting through backups or Google Takeout archives.
The next logical step would be richer ways to turn source material into learning tools. Google already supports outputs such as quizzes, diagrams, slides and podcasts, but Android Authority said the product could go further with more interactive formats. Testing Catalog has spotted references to an “App within the Studio” area that appears to allow creation of interactive web pages, games and dashboards, suggesting Google may already be exploring more ambitious presentation formats.
There are also stronger arguments for enterprise-style connectivity. Android Authority suggested direct links to services such as Obsidian, Slack or GitHub could make Gemini Notebook far more powerful by keeping information synchronised instead of relying on static uploads. But the same article noted the trade-offs: live database links would be harder to reconcile with the product’s retrieval-based design and could raise security concerns. For now, that makes the idea attractive in theory and difficult in practice.
File limits remain another practical constraint. Android Authority said Gemini Notebook can handle up to 500,000 words per source and files as large as 200MB, but large documents can still be awkward to parse cleanly. That makes the current limits reasonable for many users, yet potentially restrictive for academic work or business research. Google’s recent changes show the product is moving in the right direction, but the most useful improvements may still be the quieter ones: better portability, better organisation and better support for serious workloads.
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