Robyn AndersonCEO, Jam Ai · AI Implementation & Business Development Leader

Notebook LM is one of my favorite AI tools

3 Feb 2026 · 2 min

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In this video, the host demonstrates Google’s free NotebookLM tool as a versatile AI‑powered workspace for learning and content creation. The walkthrough shows how to start a new notebook, upload or discover sources (websites, PDFs, videos, or any Google Workspace file), and import them into the notebook. Once the material is loaded, the tool can instantly generate a variety of outputs—including audio overviews, video summaries, mind maps, reports, quizzes, and flashcards—enabling users to transform raw information into consumable formats. The host highlights a practical use case: creating a podcast from the generated audio overview, emphasizing the convenience of learning without having to read or watch lengthy content. The tone is enthusiastic and instructional, with a brief segue to a “Deep Dive” segment that is not elaborated upon.

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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 NotebookLM. This is a free tool from Google, so it's secure and safe. You can see how many 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 pretty laser focused. We've taken that stack of swords we want to turn chat GPT from. You know that.