Zoho Notebook has just received new AI upgrades, offering a range of new features that will aid in note taking, collaboration and content organisation for not just businesses but students too. Zoho Corporation has pushed a suite of artificial intelligence (AI) features under its in-house engine Zia. The update equally caters to students and business users, marking a strategic step to broaden AI-driven note management.
What’s New: Smarter Notes, Meetings & Multilingual Support
With the latest release, Zoho Notebook now offers:
Intelligent Q&A Assistant: that can search through personal notes or generate answers based on topics.
Meeting Notes functionality: basically spoken discussions are converted into structured text with speaker names and summaries.
Mind Map Generation tool: helping in long documents that can be transformed into visual maps that help users digest complex information.
Smart Note Creation and Writing Enhancement: automatic formatting, tables, templates, grammar and tone refinement.
Multilingual Voice Search & Translation in over 80 languages (including Hindi, Bengali, Gujarati, Kannada, Marathi, Punjabi, Oriya and Sanskrit) for inclusive workflows.
Integration with other Zoho apps (e.g., CRM, Projects, Mail) to streamline workflows and reduce data silos.
Notably, students using educational email IDs can access the AI-powered version of the application free of cost, while business users can adopt it as part of Zoho’s premium licensing.
Why the Updates Matters?
These updates positions Zoho Notebook as more than just a digital notebook. It becomes a smart knowledge assistant. For businesses, this means faster meeting capture, less manual note cleanup, and smarter document workflows. For students, the enhancements aim to simplify studying, summarizing large materials, and working across languages.
Zoho’s emphasis on empowering both students and business professionals also signals its intent to blur the line between consumer-grade and enterprise-grade productivity tools. By offering AI-driven features to student users for free, the company is investing in long-term user acquisition and evangelising its ecosystem.
What to Watch out for?
Zoho’s move continues its broader push into AI across its product suite, aligning with the growing global expectation for collaboration tools to be intelligent, multilingual and context-aware.
In short, the updated Zoho Notebook emerges as a potent contender in the “smart note and collaboration” space that is equipped with generative AI features, built for cross-team and cross-discipline use, and inclusive of students through free access. For those juggling study, meetings, or teamwork, it could be worth a closer look.
