AI Notebook

What a notebook is

Most AI tools give you one box to type in, and everything you have ever asked scrolls away above it. A notebook works the other way round: you give it material first, and it answers only from that.

A notebook keeps its own sources, its own conversation and everything it has written for you. Come back to it in a month and it is still about the same subject, with the same material behind it.

Where the sources come from

Two places. One VTU already publishes your syllabus, module-wise notes and lab manuals, so a notebook can take any of those directly — nothing to hunt for, and nothing to upload twice if the app already has it. Beyond that you can add your own files: a PDF of class notes, a scanned page, a document a senior passed down.

Attaching one of the app’s own resources costs nothing extra, because the document has already been read and indexed on your phone. The notebook holds a reference to it rather than a second copy.

Asking it something

You ask in plain language and the answer comes from the notebook’s sources, not from the open internet. Every answer says which source it drew on, so you can go and check it rather than take it on trust.

The difference between a notebook and the AI Professor is the fence around it. The AI Professor can answer from anything you have indexed across your whole semester; a notebook answers only from what you put in it, and says so when the answer is not there. That is what makes it useful for one subject: nothing from another one can wander into the answer.

It writes the study material too

Chat is only half of it. Every notebook can generate eight things from the same sources: a Summary, a Study Guide, Flashcards, a Quiz, Important Questions, an Explain Simply, a Deep Explanation and a Revision Sheet.

What it makes is kept. A quiz you generated on Tuesday is still there on Friday, and making an easier one does not destroy the harder one.

The Audio Overview

This is the part people remember. One VTU takes the notebook’s material, writes a spoken overview of it, and reads it aloud — two voices, one asking and one explaining, the way a good revision session sounds.

You choose the shape: a student and teacher talking it through, a solo explainer, an exam revision drill, a story built on one running comparison, or a short podcast.

The transcript sits on screen while it plays and the line being spoken is highlighted, so you can read along or find your way back to the part you missed. The recording keeps playing when you leave the screen — which is rather the point of making one to listen to on the way to college, and it plays with no internet, because it is a file on your phone rather than a stream.

Audio Overviews are limited to three a day while the feature is in beta. The limit is temporary and it resets every day.

In a language you choose

A notebook carries its own language, chosen once, and it covers both halves of the feature: what the notebook writes and what it says aloud. Ask for a Hindi notebook and the summary, the flashcards and the audio are all in Hindi.

All of it stays on your phone

Notebooks, sources and transcripts are stored on the device. Your notes are not uploaded to a server to be searched, there is no account holding a copy of your material, and nothing about what you have been reading goes anywhere.

The one thing that leaves the phone is the text that has to reach a model in order to be answered or spoken at all — the question you type, and the material a generation or a recording is being made from.

Reading and indexing your documents happen on the phone, which is why attaching a resource you already have is instant and why a saved overview still plays on a train.

What it costs

AI Notebook runs on the same credits as the rest of the app’s AI features. You get a regular allowance, you can earn more by keeping a study streak or inviting a friend, and an optional ad tops you up. There is no subscription.