NotebookLM Tutorial: 6 Use Cases You Haven't Thought Of

First, you'll learn how to access NotebookLM and set up your very first notebook in seconds.

Then, we’ll guide you through uploading sources and using AI Chat to quickly summarize content, making it easy to understand complex topics.

Next, you'll see how NotebookLM helps combine research papers to answer intricate questions.

We’ll demonstrate how to create study guides and tackle personal goals from books.

Then, you’ll explore how NotebookLM can even act as a personal coach using advice from books tailored to your own work. drawing from sources to provide practical advice tailored to real-world applications.

Later, we'll show how NotebookLM can assist with health research, summarizing consensus on pain management strategies and providing tips for exercises.

Finally, you'll see how NotebookLM can enhance career planning, whether it’s prepping for annual reviews or interview prep by uploading your resume and reflecting on your accomplishments.

Host: David DeWinter

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0:00 - Introduction: NotebookLM is ChatGPT for your Research
0:34 - Your First Notebook
0:50 - Obvious Use Case: Study and Learn
3:10 - Unexpected Use Case #1: Compile Scientific Papers
4:46 - Unexpected Use Case #2: Summarize Books
5:20 - Unexpected Use Case #3: Get Coached by Your Books
7:03 - Unexpected Use Case #4: Get Help with Acute and Chronic Pain
8:06 - Unexpected Use Case #5: Draft Your Annual Review
8:52 - Unexpected Use Case #6: Sell Yourself Better
9:54 - Warning: Research Tool

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[Google]

Excited to see how everyone uses NotebookLM differently!

[ExcelVisual]

This tool has completely transformed how I engage with complex topics. It dont 'do the work' for me; it allows me to truly interact with and synthesize insights from multiple papers simultaneously. It’s remarkable to have such a powerful resource at my fingertips. This is the first time I’ve felt that AI is genuinely redefining how we learn—and that change is here to stay.

[nigelthomas]

Just discovered this last week. I can use it to review the novel I have written. As a new writer, I struggle to find encouragement, but this has shown the writing has even more depth than I had expected. The podcast output is stunning, and with only the first three chapters it has worked out what the book is about. I'm going to use that as a YouTube teaser for marketing the book.

[jcinaz]

Excellent presentation! There’s a lot about NBLM that is useful, but like you said, it is a research tool with some fancy features.

[MacTomCat]

Thank You very much. The Video is very good. I Hope to See more of your well made guidelines. Best regards Michael

Great intro to other use cases for NotebookLM. Thanks Kevin!

[PodcastforSoftwareTesters]

Fantastic breakdown, Kevin! I love how you make complex tools easy to grasp. NotebookLM seems like a solid addition to Google’s suite — finally, AI-powered notes!
Do you think it could replace traditional note-taking apps?
Many thanks

[slepeckymamut]

I'm a scientist, a bionerd, so I write articles about our discoveries, so I'm trying to use the notebooklm to reverse engineer. I'll post a draft of the article and test to see if the AI asks similar questions I'd like to provoke in a kind reader. Or the kind of questions I expect a scientist or doctor to ask who might be interested in our article.
If so, great. If not, and notebooklm suggests asking about bullshit and technicalities, the draft needs to be still reworked.
Of course I have no proven success with this yet, I've known notebooklm too short a time to have had time to go through the whole review process. But so far it seems good to believe.

[robh]

Wow, this is an amazing product. I can see how useful it is. Thanks, David! Please keep the useful AI videos coming.

[kbqvist]

Yes, it is amazing what it can do.
And perhaps that creates a problem: It is so 'shiny' that it is easy to forget to ask critically how well it does what it can do.
For instance I would not depend too much on the podcast trick to present real understanding of factual content; in my experience it often confabulates too much for that, and unfortunately we do not have an option to control how close it sticks to the actual information provided.
Another very curious example: I recently asked it to summarize what happens in the gospel according to Matt - and it did so, without any reference to Jesus being born.! A major oversight, I would say..

[amoosho]

I’ve tested it today and it looks like an amazing tool to use with one major flaw which I hope Google could solve it soon
There’s no chat record preserved after you close the chat; accordingly you lose all the citations extracted from your references even if you saved your note. Hope there is a solution for this problem soon !

[MarioTechHealth]

Hi Kevin, great video. Thanks for sharing. What software did you use to make this video and how do you make that "spot light" effect to highlight the information that you want to emphasize ? Is the presenter an AI generated person?

[Jonathan-giux]

Hi. Can you please also cover Google's Learn About tool?

[UKTonyMagill]

Good video, thank you. I need to set up a company knowledge base and I've been looking at various wiki applications. However, I'm wondering whether Notebook LM would actually be better - has anyone used it for that kind of thing? Kevin said at the end of the video not to get too attached to it for long term use as it's experimental software, so maybe it's not appropriate for corporate use until it becomes established.

[sakanet]

This is an awesome tool! Hopefully stays around. I wish it had an iPhone app where you can listen to your podcast or create an XML to use with your preferred podcast app. I use Overcast, I am a premium subscriber, so it allows me to upload my own audio files. So, I download the Audio Overview from Notebook LM and upload it to Overcast.

[jcoi]

Cool use cases. Can't wait for those upcoming videos of yours about the upcoming features, one is called magic draft I think, and the second one is chatbot

[FabioNitro]

Very nice video!!! Congrats... Im a personal trainer and Im interested in the Unexpected Use Case #1: Compile Scientific Papers. May you send the link of those aers you used?! tnks a lot!!!

[jeffg]

Amazon should set up something like this for all the books you've purchased.

[diligentjohn]

is there any tools similar to that for excel files ..? from Google

[Luaponyt]

Kann ich damit meine W Seminar Arbeit schreiben lassen?