Google’s AI platform Gemini is experimenting with a new way to make goal-setting more visual and has caught everyone’s attention on the internet.
A social media post made on Friday called upon Gemini users to ‘visualise your 2026 goals with the help of Nano Banana Pro.’ The move has piqued users' interest, who are eager to understand the potential of generative AI not only in productivity-related applications but also in personal and thoughtful areas.
At the heart of the campaign is a detailed task that makes future planning simple through pictorial representation.
The prompt shared by the artificial intelligence model is: “A detailed blue ballpoint pen sketch of a knolling for my 2026 vision board featuring the following items on lined notebook paper: [Add your items here] The drawing uses cross-hatching for shading and has a realistic but hand-drawn doodle aesthetic. There is a bright yellow highlighter outline glowing around the subject. Surrounding the subject are playful handwritten text annotations with arrows pointing to specific details of the subject. The background is white paper with horizontal blue lines and a vertical red margin line, visible paper texture.”
This prompt is open-ended. Users can replace the listed objects with their own goals, from career milestones and travel dreams to habits they want to build in 2026.
Unlike text-based goal lists or productivity displays, the key to Gemini’s approach is that it translates planning as a process of visual storytelling. The use of imperfect doodles, notes, and textural elements reminiscent of stationery makes the result clearly intentionally human-made, although still AI-designed.
By encouraging users to ‘see’ their goals instead of typing them in, this experiment embodies the popular idea of vision boards, but with a uniquely online spin. This allows it to feel more like a personal scrapbook project than a set of self-improvement tools.
We tested a similar concept using ChatGPT 5.2, crafting a bonus prompt that asked the AI to first collect a user’s goals before illustrating them as doodles. Here are the results and prompt:
“Create a vibrant mixed-media illustration of a 2026 vision board arranged in a clean knolling layout on textured sketchbook paper. First, prompt the user to list the doodle elements that represent their 2026 goals, such as career icons, travel symbols, wellness motifs, learning tools, lifestyle objects, and personal milestones. Illustrate each goal as a hand-drawn doodle using coloured pencils, gel pens, and soft markers, with a playful, expressive style. Add decorative accents like stars, arrows, hearts, icons, and handwritten annotations pointing to each doodle. Use a colour palette that blends soft pastels with bold neon highlights, glowing highlighter outlines, and light watercolour splashes. The background should resemble a creative notebook page, featuring faint grid or ruled lines, torn paper edges, layered sticky notes, and subtle textures, creating a joyful, motivational, scrapbook-style aesthetic.
The process added an extra layer of interactivity, asking the users to define their symbols before visualizing them, resulting in more personalized outputs.
Gemini’s experiment with Nano Banana Pro suggests a broader shift in how AI tools are advancing. Beyond efficiency and automation, platforms are increasingly exploring creativity, self-reflection, and emotional engagement, areas traditionally considered deeply human.
For now, this artificial intelligence technique remains prompt-based. It hints at a future where planning your life goals might look less like a spreadsheet and more like a sketchbook.