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Technology · July 15, 2026
Students have been finding creative ways to use AI tools for months. Some use it to summarize chapters they don’t want to read, others rely on it for homework help, last-minute revision, or explaining concepts that their textbooks somehow made more confusing. While AI can speed up homework and explainers, it doesn’t always tell students what they should be studying in the first place. That’s the gap Google is trying to fill with study notebooks in Gemini.
Instead of acting like a chatbot that simply spits out answers, study notebooks are designed to function more like a personal tutor that adapts to what you know and, more importantly, what you don’t know.
