Same tool, new name
In July 2026, Google renamed its notebook tool: it's now Gemini Notebook (formerly NotebookLM). If a guide or a classmate still uses the old name, they mean the same tool.
Google also offers eligible college students in India a year of Google AI Plus, redeemable until 31 December 2026; offers like this have conditions and can change, so check the current terms with Google.
What's in a notebook, and what you want to keep
A notebook holds several things: your sources (the files and links you added), the chat where you ask questions about them, and what Google generates from them. Your sources are already yours: you added them. What's easy to lose is the chat: the explanations you asked for, the examples, the way a hard topic finally made sense.
That chat is what this guide is about.
Scroll to the top first.
On a long notebook chat, older messages may not be loaded on the page until you scroll up. Before you save the chat, scroll to the very first message so the whole thread is there.
Keep the chat by hand
- Copy the answers you need into a document, one topic at a time. Slow, but you choose exactly what to keep.
- Print to PDF. Press Ctrl+P (or Cmd+P on a Mac) and choose Save as PDF. The notebook's layout comes along, and a long chat can get cut or messy.
The faster way: Export, in Uncook
With the Uncook extension, open the notebook in Gemini Notebook, click the Uncook icon and choose Export. Pick PDF, Markdown or plain text, and you get the chat itself, clean: your questions and the answers, without the page around them.
It's free, PDF included, and doesn't count as a task. It runs in your browser: the chat isn't sent to our servers.
Uncook reads the notebook's chat only. It doesn't read your sources, the notebook's summary, the suggested questions or anything made in the Studio panel.
Then summarise it for revision
A full export is a record. For revision, you want less. In the same notebook, click the Uncook icon and choose Summarize: you get the essentials of the chat, without the back-and-forth.
With Adjust, you can set the summary's language, its tone and who it's for ("for revision before the exam", say). Each adjustment runs it again, as a task.
If you studied one subject across several notebooks, a summary of several chats at once puts them on one page. It counts as a task.
Use the summary to revise, then go back to your sources and your own notes to check what matters: a summary of a chat is only as good as the answers in it.
Questions people ask
Does it export my sources or my notes? No. Uncook exports the notebook's chat: your questions and the answers. Your sources stay where you added them.
Is exporting free? Yes. Export is free, PDF included, and doesn't count as a task.
Does it work on my phone? The Uncook extension runs in Chrome on a computer. On a phone, use your browser's share or print menu.
Start fresh,
without starting over.
Add to Chrome
Export runs in your browser, through the extension. The chat isn't sent to our servers, and nothing is kept on our side.
We don't keep the conversations you bring. When you click Send to Uncook in the extension window, the extension sends the chat from your tab to our servers, encrypted, for up to 30 minutes, and we delete it as soon as your Uncook page opens it. What Uncook makes from it is kept as a task, for as long as our Privacy page says. Neither your chats nor your tasks are used to train AI models.