Robyn Anderson shows how Google's free Notebook LM turns any source—websites, PDFs, videos, files—into audio overviews, mind maps, quizzes, and flashcards. Import sources manually or search for them automatically, then instantly generate learning materials in multiple formats.
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Welcome back to Things You Didn't Know You Could Do with AI. Today is my favorite one. I'm going to show you how you can learn anything online and create a podcast so you can listen to it, because who has time to read and watch videos all day? We're going to be checking out Notebook LM. This is a free tool from Google, so it's secure and safe. You can see how many, uh, I've made. I'm obsessed with it. So let me show you an example. You just click on new notebook, and here's where you can upload any sort of source. So that means a website, a file, anything from your Google workspace. You could paste text, and they also added this where you could discover sources. So you literally just type in anything you're interested in. I just typed in creating YouTube videos and going viral. So right now it's looking through all of the Google to find sources about this information. So it found all of these different things. So those are videos, websites, PDFs, and I can just go click them all and hit import. And now it's importing all of that information. While that's loading, I could have it create an audio overview, a video overview, a mind map, a report, a quiz, flashcards, anything. Yesterday I did this for me, and I'm just going to play it so you can listen to how it sounds.
Welcome back to the Deep Dive. Our mission today is, uh, pretty laser-focused. We've taken that stack of swords, we want to turn ChatGPT from, you know, that
