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How to open and pin the Kortex side panel in Chrome

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Click the Kortex icon in Chrome's toolbar. The side panel opens beside the page. If you cannot see the icon, click the puzzle-piece Extensions button and pin Kortex. The top card imports the page you are on. The tabs show your notebooks and prompts.

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Here's how to set up Kortex, the Chrome extension for Gemini Notebook, formerly NotebookLM. It takes about a minute. Open Kortex on the Chrome Web Store and click Add to Chrome.

Then click Add extension. A welcome page opens, and Kortex is installed. Now pin the icon.

Click the puzzle piece in the toolbar, find Kortex, and click the pin. Kortex now stays one click away. Click the Kortex icon, and the side panel opens beside your page.

Click Sign in on the web, and sign in on the Kortex website. The panel picks it up by itself. Now open Gemini Notebook.

Each notebook gets the Kortex bar, with your collections, chat, sources, Studio and Prompts. On AI sites like ChatGPT and Claude, and on YouTube, a NotebookLM button sends the chat or video to a notebook. The Dashboard button opens the Kortex Workspace, with every notebook in one table.

And the Chat Library keeps your AI chats on your computer. Kortex asks before it saves any. Here's the first thing to try.

Open an article, and Kortex suggests a notebook in the side panel. Click Import page, and the page is now a source in that notebook. That's it.

Kortex is ready.

  1. Pin the Kortex icon

    Click the puzzle-piece Extensions button in the toolbar. Then click the pin next to Kortex. The icon now stays in the toolbar.

  2. Click the Kortex icon

    The side panel opens beside the page you are on. If your browser has no side panel, the same page opens as a popup.

    The Kortex side panel beside a web page: a Choose a notebook picker, an Import page button, Domain Router and Capture as PDF.
    The side panel imports the current page, or captures it as a PDF.

  3. Import the page you are on

    In the top card, choose a notebook and click Import page. Kortex marks the best match as Suggested. If the notebook already has the page, the button reads Import anyway.

  4. Look through your notebooks

    Click the Notebooks tab. Search your notebooks and filter them by collection. Click New notebook to start one.

    The Kortex side panel Notebooks tab: a search box, collection chips and a list of notebooks.
    The Notebooks tab of the side panel.

  5. Pick a prompt

    Click the Prompts tab to search your saved prompts. Click one to put it in the chat box of the page you are on.

  6. Open settings when you need them

    The three-dot menu has Manage features, where you switch single Kortex buttons on or off. It also has MCP Connection, billing and help.

If it doesn’t work

I cannot see the Kortex icon
Click the puzzle-piece Extensions button in the toolbar and pin Kortex. If Kortex is not in the list, open your browser's extensions page and check that it is switched on.
The panel says there is nothing to import
Kortex cannot read some pages, such as the new tab page or browser settings. Open an ordinary web page, a notebook or the notebook home page. The card changes.
I get a popup, not a side panel
Your browser has no side panel, so Kortex opens the same page as a popup. The card and tabs are the same.
A prompt did not go into the chat box
Click into the chat box on the page first. Then click the prompt again. The panel can put text into a page's box only on an AI site or a page with a text field.

Questions people ask

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Does the side panel work on every page?

It opens on any tab. On pages Kortex cannot read, such as the new tab page, the top card says there is nothing to import.

How do I open the full dashboard from the panel?

Click the button in the panel's header. It opens the Kortex Workspace. The Workspace has tables of notebooks and sources, collections and Bulk Import.

Can I switch Google accounts in the panel?

Yes. When you use more than one Google account with Gemini Notebook, the header shows the account whose notebooks you are viewing. You can switch accounts there.

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