Notebooks in Gemini: a dedicated workspace for focused, organized work, now for schools and organizations

In April, we announced notebooks in Gemini as a dedicated, focused space for individual users to organize their projects and conversations. Now, students of all ages, educators, and professionals can access notebooks to keep conversations about a topic organized in one place. For example:

• Students can upload all of their materials for a specific course into a single notebook to turn Gemini into a personalized, course-aware study partner that can generate custom practice quizzes and simplify complex topics.
• Educators can upload their curriculum standards, assignment rubrics, and lesson templates to rapidly generate aligned coursework, differentiated learning materials, and targeted student feedback.
• Professionals can upload product information, project details, research reports, and strategy notes for a specific topic into a notebook to synthesize key insights and draft deliverables.

This tool also combines two of Google’s most powerful AI tools, the Gemini app and Gemini Notebook, to unlock new ways of working and studying. For example, if you’re a student, try adding class notes to a notebook and using Gemini Notebook to create a Cinematic Video Overview. The next day, open the notebook in the Gemini app and ask it to create a study guide based on that same material.

Getting started

• Admins: Access to Notebooks in Gemini is on by default, and is controlled using the Gemini App and Gemini Notebook access settings. As an administrator of your organization's Google Accounts, you can control who can use Notebooks in Gemini. Notebooks in Gemini are available to users who are in a group or OU with both Gemini Notebook and Gemini set to On. Visit the Help Center to learn more about turning Gemini and Gemini Notebook on or off for users.
• End users: Open the left side panel in the Gemini app and click “New notebook” to start adding your sources and focus area. You can add up to 10 sources to your notebook. Visit the Help Center to learn more. 

Rollout pace

• Rapid Release and Scheduled Release domains: Gradual rollout (up to 15 days for feature visibility) started on September 14, 2026

Availability

• Available to all Google Workspace customers and Workspace Individual subscribers outside of the European Economic Area (EEA), as well as users with personal Google accounts globally

Resources

• News from Google: Try notebooks in Gemini to easily keep track of projects
• Gemini Notebooks Help: Notebooks in Gemini Apps
• Google Workspace Admin Help: Turn the Gemini App on or off

Automate workflows with custom starters and steps, third-party integrations, and webhooks in Workspace Studio

To expand the capabilities of Workspace Studio and help teams build powerful, custom automations, we are introducing four new features for flows in Workspace Studio: custom starters, custom steps, third-party (3P) integrations, and webhooks. These new capabilities empower users to seamlessly connect custom Google Apps Script functions, integrate third-party services, and trigger external webhooks directly within flows in Workspace Studio.

All of these features are backed by granular enterprise security controls that allow admins to safely enable and adopt agentic capabilities across their organizations.

• Custom starters: Build and publish custom, real-time triggers to run flows based on events in other applications.

Custom starter that triggers a Studio Flow from an external application

• Custom steps: Build and run custom logic (e.g. using Apps Script) and tailor flows to advanced business needs.

Create custom steps using Apps Script

• Third-party integrations (Beta): Connect third-party applications and services to pass data effortlessly between Workspace and external tools to automate your business flows. The following integrations are available:
• Asana
• Confluence
• Hubspot
• Jira
• Mailchimp
• Quickbooks
• Salesforce
• Slack

Step to add a Jira comment in Studio Flows

• Webhooks: Send HTTP requests to external endpoints and trigger actions in them. On supported editions, admins can set an URL allowlist for webhook access.

Webhook step in Studio Flows

Getting started

• Admins:
• These features are OFF by default. Admins can enable them in the Workspace Admin Console under Apps > Google Workspace > Workspace Studio:
• Custom steps settings
• Integration settings
• Webhook settings
• Admins can change the human approval requirements in the Workspace Admin Console under Apps > Google Workspace > Workspace Studio > Approvals. Custom steps and Integration have their own approval settings, while Webhooks respect the approval settings for Sensitive Steps.
• Visit the Admin Help Center to learn more about setting up Workspace Studio, allowing or blocking custom starters and steps, allowing or blocking integration steps, and allowing or blocking send a webhook.
• End users: Try the new features in Google Workspace Studio. Learn more by reviewing the Help Center articles for Custom Starters and Steps, Third-party Integrations, and Webhooks

Rollout pace

Admin console settings

• Rapid and Scheduled Release domains: Full rollout (1-3 days for feature visibility) starting on September 17, 2026

End-user visible features

• Rapid Release domains: Full rollout (1-3 days for feature visibility) starting on September 21, 2026
• Scheduled Release domains: Gradual rollout (up to 15 days for feature visibility) starting on September 30, 2026

Availability

• Business: Business Starter, Standard, and Plus
• Enterprise: Enterprise Standard and Plus
• Education: Education Fundamentals, Standard, and Plus
• Education Add-ons: Google AI Pro for Education; Teaching and Learning
• Other Add-ons: AI Expanded Access

*Webhook URL allowlist functionality is available for Business Plus; Enterprise Standard and Enterprise Plus; Education Standard and Education Plus

Resources

• Google Workspace Admin Help: Workspace Studio
• Workspace Studio Help: Get Started with Workspace Studio
• YouTube: Workspace Studio Playlist
• Discord: Workspace Studio Channel

Introducing Expert Intelligence in Gemini Notebook

We’re introducing Expert Intelligence, a cross Google initiative that helps users engage with trusted sources through Google AI products, starting with Gemini Notebook. Featuring more than 100,000 books from major publishers, employees and students can now incorporate insights from leading authors, publications, and domain experts directly into Gemini Notebook.

Users will be able to add compatible ebooks they’ve purchased from Google Play Books directly to a Gemini Notebook, making it simple for them to ask questions about a book and receive responses grounded directly in its text. Readers can also use Gemini Notebooks to help you understand books in new ways, for example, by generating Infographics, Audio Overviews, Quizzes, or more. We’re also providing a book on us for users 18 years or older in the U.S. while supplies last.

Even better, employees and students can combine an author’s expertise with a variety of other sources, including their own information. For example:

• A student can upload their class syllabus and lecture notes alongside a purchased book to generate an Audio Overview and practice quizzes to prepare for final exams.
• A manager can ask Gemini Notebook to help brainstorm strategies on how to best give employees feedback and navigate tough conversations by consulting a book on management best practices.

Note: To interact with an ebook in a shared notebook—such as asking questions or creating artifacts—recipients must also have purchased an eligible Play Book ebook.

Getting started

• Admins: In order for end users to access this feature, they must be in an OU with Gemini Notebook, Google Play, and Google Books set to On. Visit the Help Center to learn more about turning Gemini Notebook and Google Play and Google Books on or off for users.
• Tip: For students who need access only to specific books, admins can purchase books using Buy for Groups and allocate to the students without needing to provide Google Play access (available to organizations with Google Workspace for Education Plus or a Teaching & Learning add-on).
• End users: There is no end user setting for this feature. To see if a book is eligible for Expert Intelligence, visit Google Play Books. If the ebook is eligible, you’ll see Gemini Notebook listed when you click the “Tools” badge on a book’s detail page, or you can browse eligible books. Visit the Help Center to learn more about adding Play Books ebooks as a source in Gemini Notebook.

Rollout pace

• Rapid Release and Scheduled Release domains: Available now

Availability

• Available to all Google Workspace customers, Workspace Individual subscribers, and users with personal Google accounts who have Gemini Notebook, Google Play, and Google Books enabled

Resources

• Keyword: Expert Intelligence: a new way for you to engage with trusted content
• Gemini Notebook Help: Add or discover new sources for your notebook
• Google Play Books Help: Expert Intelligence