Same tool, new name
The tool formerly called NotebookLM is now Gemini Notebook. In a notebook, you add sources, then ask questions about them in a chat.
Why a notebook chat needs a summary
The answers in a notebook are grounded in your sources, which is the point. But the chat itself grows like any other: follow-up questions, rephrasings, tangents. By the end, what you concluded is buried.
A good summary keeps:
- What you were trying to find out.
- What the chat concluded, point by point.
- What's still open: the questions it couldn't answer from your sources.
Summarize it in one click
On the Gemini Notebook page, open the notebook, click the Uncook icon and pick Summarize. Uncook reads the notebook's chat messages loaded on the page, not your source files, and gives you the topic, what was settled, where it stands and what's still open. Scroll to the start of the chat and check that the messages you need are loaded before running it.
Summarize — 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 Uncook read my sources? No. It reads the chat in the notebook, not the files you added.
Can I save the whole chat instead? Yes. Use Export to save it as PDF, Markdown or text. It's free.
Can I combine notebook chats with ChatGPT chats? Yes. Select them together for one summary of all of them; that counts as a task. Or use Merge to turn them into one prompt.
Start fresh,
without starting over.
Add to Chrome
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.