Gemini gets new folder feature, but not yet in Denmark

This week, Google expanded a feature in the Gemini app called Notebooks. It provides a new side panel where you can gather up to ten sources, for example documents, PDF files and chats, in a notebook on a specific topic. Gemini can then use the combined material to create summaries, quizzes or presentations based on exactly your sources, instead of searching broadly on the web.

The feature has been available to ordinary Gmail users since April. Now Google is expanding it to businesses and educational institutions that use Google Workspace. Here, an administrator can turn on the feature for the whole organization, so employees can build notebooks around projects and students can gather course material and notes in one place.

There's an important exception for Danish users, though. According to Google, the feature is so far not available in the EU and the other countries in the European Economic Area, reportedly because of regional rules for artificial intelligence. The Danish outlet recordere.dk writes that Google plans to expand the feature more broadly to Europe, including Denmark, over the coming weeks, and that it will also come to mobile and later to free Gemini accounts.

For Danish workplaces, this means you can't try Notebooks yet, even though colleagues in, for example, the US or the UK already have access. If your company uses Google Workspace, there's nothing you need to do right now other than watch whether the feature shows up in the Gemini side panel in the coming weeks.

Notebooks resembles Google's other tool, Gemini Notebook, which builds on the earlier NotebookLM. The difference is that Notebooks sits directly inside the Gemini app itself, so you don't need to switch between two different programs to gather and work with your sources.

What it means for you

If you use Gemini at work or at school, you can't yet gather your documents and sources in notebooks, even though colleagues in other countries already can. You don't need to do anything right now, just keep an eye on the Gemini side panel in the coming weeks. If you're a Google Workspace administrator, you can prepare colleagues for the feature coming soon, but it can only be turned on once Google opens it in the EU.