Collections on Gemini Notebook

A collection is a folder of notebooks. Kortex shows your Gemini Notebook (formerly NotebookLM) collections on the home page, and lets you file the notebook you are in without leaving it.

Why use collections here?

A collection works like a drawer in a filing cabinet. Put all your thesis notebooks in one drawer, your work notebooks in another. You find them with one click.

Your collections on the home page

On the home page, a row called Collections from Kortex sits above Recent notebooks. Each card is one collection. It shows the collection's name and how many notebooks are in it.

• If you have a lot of collections, a button at the bottom shows more of them. Show less hides them again.
• Click Hide next to the title to tuck the row away. The button then says Show. Kortex remembers your choice.
• If you have none yet, the row says so. You make collections in the Kortex dashboard. See Collections.

How to open a collection

1. Go to the Gemini Notebook home page.
2. Click a collection card.
3. You see only the notebooks in that collection. If it has smaller collections inside, they show first.
4. Click a notebook to open it.
5. To go back, click Collections from Kortex at the top.

How to rename or delete a collection

1. Move your mouse over a collection card. Three dots appear in its corner.
2. Click the three dots.
3. Choose Rename, type a new name, and click Save. Or choose Delete and confirm.

Deleting a collection removes it from Kortex. Your notebooks are not deleted.

How to add the notebook you are in to a collection

Inside a notebook, the first group in the Kortex bar is Collections. These are Gemini Notebook's own collections.

1. Open a notebook.
2. In the Kortex bar, click Add. If the notebook is in no collection yet, the button says Add to collection.
3. A list opens. Tick the collections you want. To remove the notebook from one, untick it.
4. To make a new collection, type its name in the box that says Find or create a collection. Then pick Create "…".

The collections the notebook is already in show as tags. Click the small x on a tag to take the notebook out of that collection.

Move your Kortex collections to Gemini Notebook

Next to the Collections from Kortex title there is a button called Move your Kortex collections to Gemini Notebook. It makes matching collections inside Gemini Notebook itself. Your Kortex collections and notebooks stay as they are. For a big library this can take a moment. When it finishes, reload the page to see them.

Good to know

• The cards on the home page are your Kortex collections. The tags in the bar are Gemini Notebook's own. The Move button copies the first into the second.
• Kortex collections on the free plan are limited to 5. See Plans.

Related: The Kortex notebook bar and Collections in the dashboard.