Easy Step By Step Guide to Using Google NotebookLM - A Personalized Research Assistant.



About NotebookLM

Google's NotebookLM is a rather interesting AI powered product. It is unique in the sense that this AI focuses on the data you have personally provided it, unlike other general AI chat products that respond based on their training data and other data they can access from the internet if they have access.

NotebookLM will basically digest your content in such a way that you can ask the AI questions about what information it found in the content. At the time of this writing, the AI supports pdf documents, website links and videos from Youtube.

In addition to responding to your custom and specific questions about the content you have supplied, it can generate the following:

  • A Summary of the content
  • A Briefing document
  • A Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) document
  • A Podcast deep-dive audio discussion between to AI hosts. (Probably the most interesting aspect of NotebookLM)


What Is The Use of NotebookLM

NotebookLM can be useful for evaluating and digesting any information, article, document, video or publication you come across. In this light, it works well to help you understand the content of the material you want to understand. This would be useful learning where you want to better understand a particular topic or subject. It may be extremely handing for studying a research paper, a proposal, a journal or information published on a website. I do not suggest I have an exhaustive understanding of the potential of this tool, I can only say that it works great as a tool to focus on a particular content that one seeks to understand thoroughly.


How To Use NotebookLM

At this time, NotebookLM is new and experimental, it is important to note that it may hallucinate, product wrong information or lie, so it is necessary to double-check what it churns out. 

Other than that, it is a reasonably easy tool to use. Below is a step by step visual guide to using NotebookLM at this time.

1. Visit the NotebookLM website and navigate to launch the app.



2. If you are already on the NoteBookLM app page, click on the NotebookLM logo at the top of the page to display your list of notebooks as a grid. Click on "New Notebook" to start a new notebook.



3. Add your source or sources and then generate your desired text output and/or your deep-dive podcast. (You may leave or close the page and return later when your desired information is ready as the podcast may take a while to generate).



At the time of writing this, NotebookLM is reported to support about 50 unique sources (e.g. 50 pdf)

4. When you return to your created notebook after closing the page for one reason or the other, click on "Notebook Guide" to get access to your deep-dive audio conversation and other quick options to generate desired text including document briefs, FAQs, topics and summaries.



This pretty much wraps up how to use this amazing tool. Thanks to Google for the effort. I hope many people find it useful enough to use. I hope it keeps getting better, and I hope it remains free. If you think it can have other interesting uses, please feel free to add them in the comments.


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