That mind map feature is really something else. There seems to be a trend of YouTubers sharing these massively long tutorial videos (which are immensely helpful) and also.. who has the time? This is a great way to make it all more manageable. NotebookLM is such a great tool.
Great article, I've been looking at NotebookLM. I googled "limitations of NotebookLM" and found information that is concerning to me. There is a "limited context window" that seems to create a situation where it doesn't scan all info uploaded (one person uploaded a book and it would not read the first 96 pages); and it can leave out key information (medical articles being uploaded but it doesn't read them all when providing an answer). Some of the talk got technical so I might be misunderstanding, but I'd love for you to help explain it in plain English. For now, as much as I would like to, I'm still hesitant to use it. https://www.reddit.com/r/notebooklm/comments/1l2aosy/i_now_understand_notebook_llms_limitations_and/
I used Notebook LM in a different environment but to the same end. I coach a middle school First Lego League robotics team. Part of the competition is to develop an innovation project. This year's theme is archaeology based. I went to Notebook LM, loaded up 50 safe (for kids) and relevant sources about archaeology and told them that was their research database. The school is happy since they do not have unfettered access to the internet via the AI. I'm happy because Notebook LM provides sources when producing a summary. The kids are happy because the are working with an AI. It is a very useful tool Your use case is relevant for many of us. Where to store our sources by subject accessable in a useful way on demand. Thanks for the post.
Notebook is a fantastic tool for learning. Love the idea of just pulling in all your web links around a subject matter instead’ve keeping them siloed away in browser bookmarks!
I wrote a two-part post for writers on using NotebookLM. It's an excellent tool for gathering information. Not just learning how to do something, but also finding connections in your material and pulling together things that you hadn't thought about before.
Love NotebookLM. It's definitely one of the best solutions out there for the "I'll read / learn this later". We're all drowning in this issue with all the great stuff out there.
That mind map feature is really something else. There seems to be a trend of YouTubers sharing these massively long tutorial videos (which are immensely helpful) and also.. who has the time? This is a great way to make it all more manageable. NotebookLM is such a great tool.
Great article, I've been looking at NotebookLM. I googled "limitations of NotebookLM" and found information that is concerning to me. There is a "limited context window" that seems to create a situation where it doesn't scan all info uploaded (one person uploaded a book and it would not read the first 96 pages); and it can leave out key information (medical articles being uploaded but it doesn't read them all when providing an answer). Some of the talk got technical so I might be misunderstanding, but I'd love for you to help explain it in plain English. For now, as much as I would like to, I'm still hesitant to use it. https://www.reddit.com/r/notebooklm/comments/1l2aosy/i_now_understand_notebook_llms_limitations_and/
Great text!
I used Notebook LM in a different environment but to the same end. I coach a middle school First Lego League robotics team. Part of the competition is to develop an innovation project. This year's theme is archaeology based. I went to Notebook LM, loaded up 50 safe (for kids) and relevant sources about archaeology and told them that was their research database. The school is happy since they do not have unfettered access to the internet via the AI. I'm happy because Notebook LM provides sources when producing a summary. The kids are happy because the are working with an AI. It is a very useful tool Your use case is relevant for many of us. Where to store our sources by subject accessable in a useful way on demand. Thanks for the post.
Notebook is a fantastic tool for learning. Love the idea of just pulling in all your web links around a subject matter instead’ve keeping them siloed away in browser bookmarks!
I wrote a two-part post for writers on using NotebookLM. It's an excellent tool for gathering information. Not just learning how to do something, but also finding connections in your material and pulling together things that you hadn't thought about before.
Could you share the links to them please? Would like to give them a read.
Happy to.
Part 1: https://gregwolford.substack.com/p/the-writers-research-revolution
Part 2: https://gregwolford.substack.com/p/the-writers-research-revolution-part
Great idea, Daria. I wasn’t sure what to use NotebookLM for up until now, now I know. Very helpful!
Your experiential steps surely made me take a look, when I'd been putting off investigating it.
Has it occur to you that you're breaching confidentiality laws by uploads private documents as pdfs and others into an AI?
Wasn't this a publicly available YouTube video?
Thanks for the practical breakdown. This is going straight into my workflow experiments
this is timely :) been looking at NotebookLM. Planning to try it soon!
Love NotebookLM. It's definitely one of the best solutions out there for the "I'll read / learn this later". We're all drowning in this issue with all the great stuff out there.
Great post, Luan!