How-to

Gemini Notebook: how to save and export your notebook chats

You uploaded your readings, your notes or a pile of PDFs to a notebook, then spent an hour asking it questions. The answers are useful, and you'd like to keep them outside the notebook: in your notes, in a document, or just as a file. Here's how to save that chat.

· 3 min read

On this page
  1. Same tool, new name
  2. What you can save
  3. Save the chat in one click
  4. Then: summarise it
  5. Questions people ask

Same tool, new name

NotebookLM is now called Gemini Notebook. In an average four-week period during the March quarter of 2026, 5 million Australians aged 14 and over, or 21%, used Gemini, according to Roy Morgan. That figure is for Gemini, not specifically for Gemini Notebook.

What you can save

A notebook has three parts: the sources you added, the chat where you ask questions, and the other things it can make from your sources. Uncook's Export saves the chat: your questions and the answers. It doesn't save your source files or Studio outputs. Only chat messages loaded on the page are read: scroll to the start of the chat and check the export for missing messages.

Save the chat in one click

On the Gemini Notebook page, open the notebook, click the Uncook icon and pick Export. Choose PDF to read or print, Markdown for your notes app, or plain text to paste anywhere.

Export is free, and it doesn't count as a task. It runs in your browser: the chat isn't sent to our servers.

Then: summarise it

If the chat is long, Summarize gives you the essentials: the topic, what was settled, where it stands and what's open. It is free on one chat within its own length and daily usage limits; beyond those limits, the task cost depends on your plan and is shown before you start.

Questions people ask

Does Export include my sources? No. It saves the chat in the notebook, not the files you added.

Do the answers keep their references to my sources? Do not rely on the export to preserve source references: the reader excludes citation markers. Check the original notebook and record the references you need separately.

Does it work in Gemini too? Yes. Open a supported Gemini chat in desktop Chrome and choose Export.

Start fresh,
without starting over.

Add to Chrome
The workspace showing the navigation sidebar and the New task panel.

Export runs in your browser, through the extension. The chat isn't sent to our servers, and nothing is kept on our side.