{"id":745513,"date":"2026-06-18T23:47:18","date_gmt":"2026-06-18T23:47:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/745513\/"},"modified":"2026-06-18T23:47:18","modified_gmt":"2026-06-18T23:47:18","slug":"googles-making-it-easier-to-add-files-to-gemini-notebooks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/745513\/","title":{"rendered":"Google&#8217;s making it easier to add files to Gemini Notebooks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img class=\"e_gh\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"eager\"  title=\"the notebooks feature in the gemini app\"  alt=\"the notebooks feature in the gemini app\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/the-notebooks-feature-in-the-gemini-app-scaled.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Megan Ellis \/ Android Authority<\/p>\n<p>TL;DR<\/p>\n<p>Just like NotebookLM itself, Google brought support for Notebooks of source files to Gemini earlier this year.<br \/>\nNow Google\u2019s working to let you add files directly to Gemini Notebooks through the Android share sheet.<br \/>\nYou\u2019ll be able to select specific Notebooks where you want your files to end up.<\/p>\n<p>If you\u2019re looking to get the most utility out of Gemini, what you put into it matters quite a bit. Earlier this year, Google gave us a great new tool for managing the content we wanted Gemini having access to, as it brought <a href=\"https:\/\/www.androidauthority.com\/gemini-notebooks-3656039\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">support for Notebooks to Gemini<\/a>. And now Google appears to be working on a handy new way to make it easy to make sure those Notebooks are full of all the information we want in there.<\/p>\n<p>With <a href=\"https:\/\/www.androidauthority.com\/notebooklm-may-2026-update-hands-on-ai-trust-3674146\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">NotebookLM<\/a> itself, you can quickly add content from your other Android apps by taking advantage of the platform\u2019s share sheet. So far, though, we haven\u2019t had anything like that with Gemini Notebooks. But with the new version 17.32.26.sa.arm64 update of the Google app for Android, we\u2019re can see that developers are making progress at building out just that.<\/p>\n<p>You won\u2019t see this on your own phone right now, but the groundwork is already in place to add Gemini Notebooks to the system share sheet. You may not get this option when working with all file types, but it should show up for images, audio, videos, PDFs, TXT files, other documents, and ZIP archives.<\/p>\n<p><img class=\"e_gh\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"  title=\"gemini notebooks share 1 watermarked\"  alt=\"gemini notebooks share 1 watermarked\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/gemini-notebooks-share-1-watermarked.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>AssembleDebug \/ Android Authority<\/p>\n<p>But what if you\u2019re really taking full advantage of this Gemini feature, and you\u2019ve already got a whole bunch of different Notebooks you\u2019re working with? Not a problem! Once you choose this option from the share sheet, you\u2019ll see a list of your existing Notebooks, as well as have the opportunity to create a new one. You\u2019ll also see the upload progress as these new files get added to their destination Notebooks:<\/p>\n<p><img class=\"e_gh\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"  title=\"gemini notebooks share 2 watermarked\"  alt=\"gemini notebooks share 2 watermarked\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/gemini-notebooks-share-2-watermarked-scaled.jpg\"\/><img class=\"e_gh\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"  title=\"gemini notebooks share 3 watermarked\"  alt=\"gemini notebooks share 3 watermarked\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/gemini-notebooks-share-3-watermarked-scaled.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>We\u2019re even seeing work to streamline that selection process even further, populating the share sheet with direct links to individual Notebooks:<\/p>\n<p><img class=\"e_gh\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"  title=\"gemini notebooks share 4 watermarked\"  alt=\"gemini notebooks share 4 watermarked\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/gemini-notebooks-share-4-watermarked.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>AssembleDebug \/ Android Authority<\/p>\n<p>None of these additions feel remotely controversial, and this is really just Google catching up to make interacting with Notebooks equally fleshed out no matter where you\u2019re working with them. We can\u2019t yet say when Google might ultimately push this change live, but progress appears to be decently far along, so hopefully we won\u2019t be waiting very much longer.<\/p>\n<p>\u26a0\ufe0f An APK teardown helps predict features that may arrive on a service in the future based on work-in-progress code. However, it is possible that such predicted features may not make it to a public release.<\/p>\n<p>Thank you for being part of our community. 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