NotebookLM Is How I Learn Anything Fast (Full Walkthrough 2026)

If I had to go research information and learn something new, this is the one AI tool that I would use. And hello, my name is Robyn Anderson. My friends call me Jam. I'm the CEO of Jam AI, and I help thousands of people learn how to use AI through really easy, quick lessons every single day. So let me show you how I would do some research to learn something new, create presentations, create reports, create videos, and even custom podcasts. Let's get into it. All right, so the tool I'm talking about today is Notebook LM. It is a free tool by Google. You just go to notebook.google.com and you'll see this. You can see I literally use this all the time. I'm obsessed with it. It is how I learn. I create custom podcasts for me to listen to every day when I go on my 15,000-step routine. You know, I've gotta have stuff that's keeping me interested, so I I'm gonna show you how you would create a new notebook, and then I'm gonna take you through an example one I just put together, 'cause they do take a little while. So the first thing you're gonna do is open a notebook, and you'll see here there's this section where it says add sources. Sources are what you're drawing content from that you're going to, uh, have the AI chat with and learn from. So you can add sources from the web because NotebookLM is a Google tool. You could search for anything and it'll find it here. You could also upload files if you have a PDF you wanna sort through. You could add YouTube links, you could connect your Google Drive, and you can also do copied text. Note for Microsoft users, there is a NotebookLM integration for Copilot, and you could connect your SharePoint here. So what we're gonna do today is I'm talking about HIROX, which is a new kind of workout that is kind of taking storm here in Denver. So HIROX, it's like a competitive CrossFit meets, I don't know, like weightlifting type thing. And so I'm having it just research that in general. And you can see here it came up with 10 different sources, um, kind of like blogs, news articles. So I'm gonna go ahead and hit import, and then I'll do one more search that's like HIIT training tips. We'll see what it comes up with here. So we'll hit view. So it has like an 8-week program, how to fuel, how to eat, um, how to score, injury and prevention. So we'll hit import on that. So you can put in so many sources. I have one that I've been adding sources to for like a year and it's still not full. So once you have all the info over here, the middle area becomes pretty much like a chatbot where you can ask questions about it. So what is HiRox? Oh, I spelled it. I should have typed it out. I was using voice chat. Um, so it'll kind of answer your questions here in just a quick chat. And then over here in the studio is where the magic happens. You could create custom podcasts, presentations, animated explainer videos, mind maps, reports, flashcards, quiz, infographics, and even a data table. From this information. So came over here, told me I spelled it wrong, and kind of told me like what it is, who can compete, and then it suggests other questions to ask. So because this takes a little while to get this content made, I did it earlier and just want to show you some of the content that it came up with. So I clicked on report and then I hit this little caret button and you could hit create your own, which is what I did. And I said, hey, I need you to create a training program for somebody somebody who's pretty fit, works out, but has never competed before. So here's the report it created. Super detailed, has so much information, and then it has a 6-week training program, and it even gave cute little coach's notes, which is quite nice. So that's cool. And then I asked it to show a mind map, cuz I just love these. This is how it takes all this information and kind of creates more of a visual map of what's in there. So here's the training and prep. It goes over the race format, Compromise Running, the 8 stations. So these are the 8 things you'd have to train for if you want to do a HYROX competition. So I'm gonna close that. And the very coolest part to me is this audio overview. So again, if you click it here in the middle, it'll just create it for you. If you click the caret, you can customize it. So here's where you can say who the audience is. You can customize all this information for you, so you can say create a podcast on how a 32-year-old man who's never worked out can start High Rocks, and it'll create a podcast just for you on that. So I did a similar thing and I'm gonna show you what it sounds like cuz it's just so cool. It's two podcast hosts talking about High Rocks. Here we go.

You are probably going to completely crash and burn by like kilometer 4. Oh, absolutely.

Without a doubt.

Which is crazy, right? Welcome to the deep dive, everyone. Today we are talking directly to you, the listener, because we know your profile. You're already fit. You hit the gym, you lift heavy, you probably run.

So it's so cool. I make one of these like every day, as you saw. So this is NotebookLM. I just had a consultant that I'm doing a job with. She created an entire Microsoft Copilot training from NotebookLM. We then took it and applied it to our clients' information, but they were super impressed with the presentation we made. And I love NotebookLM as a starting point for any presentation. If you're using Gamma or Claude or ChatGPT for your design, I get that. I love a good solid brand, but you can take the information from here and it's really solid, always cited information. So I hope you learned something in this quick video today. If you want to learn more about about how you can use AI in your everyday work life and grow your business, save more time, and save more money, please give me a follow and check me out in ClubJam. Have a great rest of your day.