A whistle stop tour of the homepage including how to create, sort and edit the titles of notebooks

Learn about community driven featured notebooks that, take all the effort out of creating your own notebooks by sourcing community created content

Learn what upgrading to a paid account for NotebookLm can do for you and if you need it

In this lecture we cover what a source is and why its fundamental to the use of the tool

Your aren't getting far with Google NotebookLM without selecting the best sources to provide rich data for your research, This lecture covers how to find the right ones

Get comfortable with how to upload and link sources to Google NotebookLM

Here we cover the sources that can be used and referenced by the tool

Learn how you can take the time out of selecting your sources and let NotebookLM search for them for you, getting you ready to jump into your analysis and to get hold of the answers you need faster!

Using the text function is a great part of the tool to drive out insights from your sources. Learn the right prompts to use and how to have a conversation with the tool to drive valuable answers

As you are chatting with the tool, you're going to learn a lot about your chosen subject, the notes function is a great way to save these learnings automatically

Audio Overviews are lively “deep dive” discussions that summarize the key topics in your sources. This is an experimental feature and below are some notes to help you get started:

• Audio Overviews (including the voices) are AI-generated, so there might be inaccuracies and audio glitches.

• Audio Overviews are not a comprehensive or objective view of a topic, but simply a reflection of your sources.

• Audio Overviews are only in English at this moment.

• It can take several minutes to generate an Audio Overview (feel free to do other things while generation is in progress).

• You need edit access to a notebook in order to generate or delete an Audio Overview.

• You can share your feedback on an Audio Overview using the thumbs up and thumbs down buttons.

Use automatically generated mind maps within your Notebooks to help you understand and visualise the data. These mind maps are great for steering your prompts, allowing you (within  single click) to query your notebook on the most interesting parts of the topic you're looking to learn.

Chat has new features! you can now configure it for better, more tailored answers. learn how to take advantage of this in this lecture

Studio has had a re-design and I give an overview here of where everything is

Audio Overviews are lively “deep dive” discussions that summarize the key topics in your sources. This is an experimental feature and below are some notes to help you get started:

• Audio Overviews (including the voices) are AI-generated, so there might be inaccuracies and audio glitches.

• Audio Overviews are not a comprehensive or objective view of a topic, but simply a reflection of your sources.

• Audio Overviews are only in English at this moment.

• It can take several minutes to generate an Audio Overview (feel free to do other things while generation is in progress).

• You need edit access to a notebook in order to generate or delete an Audio Overview.

• You can share your feedback on an Audio Overview using the thumbs up and thumbs down buttons.

You don't have to keep audio overviews to yourself, with this easy function you can share them with anyone in your team

You can now interrupt your Audio Overview to ask a question, interject, or make a request to the hosts!

Here are some notes to get you started:

• Your voice and transcribed interactions with the hosts will not be stored.

• Clicking on the share / download buttons will share / download your original Audio Overview. Other users will not be able to interact with your Audio Overview via the share link.

• There may be a slight delay in starting to play the initial content, after you hit the join button, or after you speak to the hosts.

• It can take several minutes to generate an Audio Overview (feel free to do other things while generation is in progress).

• There may be some audio glitches (random speaker switches, third voice, voice glitches).

• This feature is only available for newly generated Audio Overviews.

As you are chatting, you can trigger the creation of a briefing document, A handy automatic summary of all the sources your have linked to the tool. A great starting place for understanding the subject you're researching as well as for triggering other key questions and queries you can ask

Custom Reports are a powerful prompt and  AI driven upgrade to the standard notes outputs you could get before. With this Feature you tailor the outputs of your Notebook to give you exactly what you need!

If you have any interest in Blogging then this pre-built report is the one for you. here we learn how to utilise and customise the Blog report feature to output blog posts based on your sources and analysis. This feature is so flexible you can get different take and views using a huge variety of languages, improving any bloggers reach.

Accelerate your learning with a study guide, posing essay and quiz questions to help test your knowledge. This is so important as you're not just using the tool to tell you answers but in stead the study guide encourages you to fully learn and absorb it

Customise your audio overview by creating specific prompts, rules and criteria to make the generated conversation more specific to the answers you're looking for, further saving you time

Creating Slide Decks

This HUGE update for NotebookLM creates a video based on your source content with appropriate diagrams, images, timelines and more overlaid with in sync audio taking you through your content. What's more its customisable! allowing you to get a video that covers exactly what you need.

The notes section is where you're saving your insights, but they can do so much more for you as another time saver, consolidating all the best bits of your learning and propelling your research further

Frequently Asked Questions or FAQ's can be automatically generated to give you another view of your data. rather than a summary of the content the system poses this as questions that you may ask

If you are working with historical information then the timeline is critical to understanding the chronological (date order) of the events

In this lecture we touch upon the various use cases for the tool. This is important because figuring out how the tool will help you in your day to day personnel or professional life will the difference in how much you use it.

In this lecture we take a deep dive into a prebuilt notebook for Interview Prep. Let's work together to get a Job at Apple! using the job description, links to articles, talks by Steve Jobs and more to give us the context we need to excel at the interview stage.

In this challenge I ask you to research and prepare for an interview at octopus energy. try to complete your detailed prep in record time with Google NotebookLM

Here we delve into how Google NotebookLM can accelerate your career by using education sources specific to your job role and industry to understand where your knowledge gaps are and how to fill them

Google NotebookLM is made for study and anyone studying anything can benefit from it Here we look at examples of a specific study topic and how the tool can drive our learning forwards

For this challenge, try and wrap your head around roman history, answering the complex extxay questions effortlessly using the tool

In this Use Case we will use Google NotebookLM to Brainstorm how to start an online business for selling digital art designs

Google NotebookLM has limitations currently when it comes to data analysis, but that doesn't mean it cannot do a level of it. In this lecture we look at what it can do and leverage its expertise to pull out data insights

I would love to hear about how you're using the tool! please do share what you're using it for and how it is helping you achieve your goals