Robyn Anderson walks through Google NotebookLM, showing how to add sources from Drive, websites, and YouTube, then use the AI to chat with them and generate audio overviews, mind maps, flashcards, quizzes, and slide decks. Handles up to 300 sources at once with full citations.
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NoteBookLM is one of the most amazing tools that was built by Google AI Studio. It's free to use and it's part of your Google workspace. So it's actually very secure as well. So when you go into your Google Apps, you can find it just right here, NotebookLM in your Google workspace. So you can see here I have a ton of notebooks and basically I'll create a notebook on anything I want to learn about and go deep on. So I'm always learning. You could see here I went deep on nano, banana and real estate images and I'll go all the way to learning about craps. So let me show you how this works. If you're interested in something, you can go and add a source. A source is information of some kind, whether it's from your Google Drive, a random website, YouTube links, click copied text or uploaded sources. So files that could be any of these types of files, pretty much anything. The cool part is you could also hit Discover Sources and it searches the web for sources so how to play craps. And it'll actually research websites, PDFs, videos. It'll bring up all sorts of information that it thinks is relevant to what you're trying to learn about. So while that comes up, all of the sources that you add come over here. You can have up to 300 sources. So think about that. Oh, here we go. It gave me seven sources, I could view them all and I'm going to hit import. I'm adding all of those to my sources. So this is kind of like my brain. And then I can come over here and I can chat with all this of all of the information in all of the sources, or I could deselect them and just select a couple and then I'm chatting with just those two sources. I'm going to select them all for now and then I can come over here and say, you know, I could click on one of these suggested texts or I could just write what is the best way to start learning cracks. So you can just chat with all these sources and it'll take all of this information and give you the best answer based on what's in your sources. And this is just like any other LLM where the better your prompt, the better result. So one thing I really like about it is when it gives you information, it cites its sources so you can hover over these numbers and see where they got the information from. But it gives you quite a lot of information and answers your question very directly. So that's how to start playing Craps. And then if you go over here, I'll make this bigger. This is the studio section, so you can create audio overviews, video mind maps, reports, flashcards, a quiz infographic, and a slide deck. The other cool part is you can customize them by hitting that little pencil. So you can say, I want an infographic. And let's say use. Use an orange color to highlight how to start playing craps. So I'll just hit generate. So whenever you generate something, it comes up here, and I want to take a look at something I've already made.
You know that feeling, right? You walk past the craps table in a casino and it's just this total whirlwind. Shouts, cheers, dice flying. It feels kind of overwhelming.
So you can see how incredible that sounds. It sounds so real. And it does a great job at just having some sort of discussion about all of the content here also has this interactive mode where we'll see if this works. But you hit play.
You know that feeling, right? You walk past the crafts table in the casino and it's, oh, hey there. How can we help?
I'm curious. What is the best casino to go to if you're a beginner?
That is a fantastic question and honestly.
A really smart place to start.
If you're a beginner, you want two things.
You want a low pressure environment and low stakes.
You want to stretch that playtime.
Exactly. We saw a lot of recommendations for places with lower minimum bets.
Downtown Vegas is often better than the.
Strip, the older spot.
So you can have conversations with the content. So you could ask about it in real time, which is really amazing. You can also create different reports, videos you can see here. I made a handbook. So here's the ultimate craps handbook. So just think about how much content you could create. I love these mind maps because I'm a visual learner. So you just kind of click into what you want to learn more about and it'll take you through what that, where that goes to and how it works. So this is how you use NotebookLM and just a couple other ideas of how to use it. That was obviously to learn something fun, but for your business, I have a lot of different ways. So this was for creating content on Claude AI training. My might look familiar. And I have this. Let's see, which one is it? I have this one. This is all about Jam AI offers. So I have all of my club jam offers, my brand voice, everything we've ever created for our business is in here. And that way I can, number one, find things and say, hey, I know we did a training on creating videos in vo. Where is that? Or I can have everything in here and say, based on everything I've created for my business, what's another good idea for an offer that's right along the lines? Or what's a good secondary course for somebody who just finished the AI accelerator? And I can get that information in here? So NotebookLM is really an incredible tool. The more you use it, the more ideas you'll have on how to use it. So be careful. It is a gateway AI enjoy.
