How to Use Google Gemini Al (Full Tutorial)

About this video

Kevin gives a step-by-step tour of Google Gemini at gemini.google.com, emphasizing that Gemini is connected to Google apps such as Gmail, Docs and Drive so it can work with your real data. He drafts an email announcing the Kevin Cookie Company’s new oatmeal raisin cookie, showing it prepared directly as an email with recipients, subject and body ready to review, edit or refine with follow-up prompts, and stresses you do not need a perfect prompt — start simple and refine. In Canvas, he writes a blog post in a side-by-side workspace, prompts Gemini to call out that only organic ingredients are used (it highlights changes such as 100% certified organic), reverts to previous versions, adjusts length and tone with controls, and highlights a single section to rewrite just that intro more playfully. Uploading a sales spreadsheet — by plus icon, Drive, or drag and drop — Gemini analyzes it and reports about 570 oatmeal raisin cookies sold, steadily increasing, with a visual. Using @ to invoke connected apps, he asks Google Calendar when his meeting with Patti about the sales is, and then shows Gemini built into Gmail for drafting, Docs for generating and refining a newsletter, and Sheets via its Gemini menu for analysis, charts and pivot tables. He also generates an image of cookies and refines it by swapping a coffee cup for a glass of milk, and notes video and music creation tools. Finally he covers finding past work via sidebar search and the Library, grouping related chats, files and sources into a notebook — where asking how many cookies were sold returns 570 units from a connected chat — and opening NotebookLM from a notebook for audio overviews, slide decks, video overviews and mind maps grounded in your own sources.

Key takeaways

• Gemini at gemini.google.com connects to Gmail, Docs, Drive and Calendar, so generated content can plug directly into your workflow and real data.
• Start with a simple prompt and refine iteratively; Canvas lets you edit side-by-side, highlight changes, revert versions and rewrite single sections.
• Upload or drag in files and ask questions — in the example Gemini analyzed a sales spreadsheet and reported about 570 cookies sold with a visual.
• Use @ in the prompt to query connected apps, such as asking Calendar for a meeting, and use the built-in Gemini features inside Gmail, Docs and Sheets.
• Organize related chats and sources into notebooks and open NotebookLM to answer across them and generate audio overviews, slide decks, video overviews and mind maps.

Episode details: published May 22, 2026 · 10:03 long. Summary written by Self Growth Videos from the episode itself. Business results and any income figures mentioned are Kevin Stratvert’s own claims, shared for education — they are not typical or guaranteed.

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