As a regular NotebookLM user, here are 5 things I want from Gemini Notebook

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A few weeks ago, Google announced it was rebranding NotebookLM to Gemini Notebook . Initially, this change was purely cosmetic, but we’re already seeing signs that Google has big plans for the future.

In fact, we’ve already seen a few new features like Collections , which finally lets you group related notebooks together like a playlist. That’s just the beginning, though, as a recent APK breakdown hints the tool may soon let users add website links as sources directly in the Gemini app, alongside a few other possible changes .

This got me thinking about what else I’d like to see from Gemini Notebook in the future. Here are just five relatively modest yet important changes I would personally love to see introduced into the AI tool.

While one notebook is often enough, certain projects can benefit from multiple workspaces, making it easier to keep things organized during the early planning stages. For example, a graduate student might be working on a thesis with a ton of sources and information to sift through. To make things easier, they might break things down into separate notebooks for each chapter. This is useful early on, but less useful once you know exactly what you’re doing and where you are heading. Imagine if there were an easy way to merge these related notebooks together.

Unfortunately, there is no official way to merge multiple notebooks directly in the Gemini Notebook app. There are workarounds, such as third-party tools. You can even upload or reference multiple notebook links in Google Gemini and then ask it to cross-analyze, synthesize, or combine content across all attached notebooks. All of these methods require additional steps and the use of tools outside the Gemini Notebook workspace. A native merge feature would be a natural fit for the AI-powered tool, but there are some reasons it hasn’t happened yet.

The main reason this feature doesn’t exist yet is that Gemini Notebook is designed around strict source grounding to prevent AI hallucinations. Mixing several independent notebooks greatly increases the odds of hallucinations and other issues. That said, this should become much more achievable in the future as Google continues to improve the underlying AI technology and further expands notebook source caps.

Imagine spending tons of time putting together a research project in Gemini Notebook, but down the road, you find you need to reference your sources again. While you should ideally already have copies of these somewhere, that doesn’t mean you always will.