People with Google Workspace or Google AI Pro accounts can use Google’s Gemini AI assistant to generate documents in Docs and other Workspace apps. But anybody can use the Canvas tool in the Gemini web or mobile app (for Android or iOS) to create documents — without a paid subscription.
Using Canvas, you can prompt Gemini to generate a document such as a business plan, essay, outline, proposal, report, study guide, or any other document type. There’s a lot more you can do with Canvas as well, such as creating apps and games, but for the purposes of this tutorial we’ll focus on business documents and related materials.
In this quick guide, we’ll go over how to have Gemini generate a document with the Canvas tool, how to edit the Canvas document with Gemini, how to export it to Google Docs, and how to create additional materials from it, such as infographics and interactive quizzes. We’ll focus mainly on the Gemini web app since it has more features than the mobile app.
