Every Feature Explained (2026)

If you’ve recently moved away from ChatGPT, chances are you’ve landed on Claude or Gemini. I already wrote a complete guide on making the most of Claude. Now it’s Gemini’s turn.

Even though Claude is still my daily driver, there are things I only go to Gemini for because it does them better than any other LLM or because they’re only available in Gemini.

Image generation. Video. Web search and deep research. And brainstorming, where Gemini pulls from a wider range of sources on its own, while Claude works best with what you give it.

And if you’ve been reading this newsletter for a while, you already know I’m hooked on Google’s tools.

I’ve written about them a lot: an overview of every AI tool Google has built, tools I built in Google AI Studio, how I use NotebookLM for research and writing, how I automated a lot of my work with Google Apps Script, prompts for using Nano Banana, and pieces on using NotebookLM together with Gemini and integrating it with Claude Code.

So this was the missing piece.

A complete guide on Gemini: what every feature does, how to make the most of it, when each one is useful, and some of my favorite ways to combine its tools.