QUESTIONS · BACKUP AND MOVING
How do I back up NotebookLM?
Short answer
NotebookLM has no backup or full export, so the only copy of your notes, chats and Studio outputs is in your Google account. To make your own copy, open the notebook with NotebookLM Ultra Exporter installed and click the archive button at the top of the Studio panel. It saves an indexed ZIP. One full archive is free.
Steps
- Install NotebookLM Ultra Exporter in desktop Chrome, then refresh any open NotebookLM (Gemini Notebook) tab.
- Open the notebook.
- Click the archive button at the top of the Studio panel.
- Choose what to include and download the ZIP.
What to know
- The archive contains notes, reports, chat history with cited sources, Studio items and source text.
- Pro adds unlimited archives, several notebooks at once, and incremental sync to a local folder.
- Keep archives somewhere other than the same Google account.
Google changes these menus often. The item's own menu in your notebook shows what is built in today.
Free or Pro?
The basics are free; the advanced options listed on this page need Ultra Exporter Pro. Pro covers the extension only; it does not include a Google subscription or raise NotebookLM's own limits. Current prices are on the pricing page.
Frequently asked questions
How often should I back up?
After any session whose results you would not want to redo, and before deleting sources or notebooks.
Related guides
Back up a whole NotebookLM notebook as a ZIP archive. You get one ZIP with folders for sources, notes, reports, chats and Studio files, a README.md index and.
Notebook archive packs every note, report, chat, Studio item and source text of a NotebookLM notebook into one indexed ZIP file.
Google provides no full export of a notebook, so a deleted notebook or a lost account takes the notes, chats and Studio outputs with it.
NotebookLM cannot transfer ownership of a notebook. You can share it with the other account, which leaves the original owner in control, or rebuild it there.
There is no built-in way to export every notebook. With NotebookLM Ultra Exporter you archive notebooks one at a time for a single free archive, or with Pro.
NotebookLM has no dependable one-click duplicate for a whole notebook with its notes and chats.
Yes. Gemini Notebook now keeps the conversation in each notebook so it is there when you return, which older versions of NotebookLM did not do.
Sharing a notebook requires the other person to have a Google account and open NotebookLM. To send the content itself, export it as a file: a PDF or Word.