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NotebookLM ✓

AI-powered note-taking and research assistant

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Overview

NotebookLM is an advanced note-taking tool which utilizes artificial intelligence to provide a personalized research assistant. Uploading relevant documents turns NotebookLM into an expert on the information that matters to you and it can assist in transforming your compiled notes into a variety of resources such as outlines, blog posts, business plans, and more.

Its notable feature is the ability to shift effortlessly from reading to asking questions to writing with an AI providing guidance at every step. Moreover, the platform ensures user privacy, as any private or sensitive information is not used for the AI training, securing your personal data unless choose to share it with others.

Also, it promotes collaboration as users can share their sources with other collaborators. Please note that currently, NotebookLM is only available for users aged 18 and above in the United States.

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  • AI-powered note-taking and research assistant

Example outputs 1

Sample generations and before/after results for NotebookLM.

Access & connections

Where you can use NotebookLM.

Platforms

Web

Capabilities

What this tool accepts, produces, and is strongest at.

Input

  • Text

Output

  • Text

Supported features

  • Docs
  • Citations
  • TTS
  • Assistant
  • Deep Research
  • Video Generation
  • Podcast
  • Teaching Humans
  • SynthID

Models

Text

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Prompts 1

NotebookLM Source Bound Mind Map Orchestrator · Hein Ríos

Use this in NotebookLM Chat to turn your sources into a compact Mind Map with clear theme groups and inline citations. It links overlapping ideas, flags disagreements with both sides cited, writes a brief evidence based summary, and saves the map to Studio.

Build a Mind Map about {topic} (home coffee brewing) using only the sources in this notebook. Keep it small and clear. Aim for {main_groups} main groups (five) and up to {per_group} subtopics in each group (three). Use short names under six words and add dates in names when a so…

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Releases 2

NotebookLM v3 Apr 2, 2025 Current

Discover Sources: Enabled NotebookLM to autonomously find and summarize relevant web sources based on user-provided topics, streamlining the research process.

Initial release December 9, 2023
Initial release of NotebookLM.

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Mark Lester Mendoza Aug 13, 2026 [email protected]

This one is great! it helps me a lot on creating contents.

Sara Ehtasham Jun 16, 2026 [email protected]

getting help with studies, uploaded all lectures, notes and reading materials for my kids and it helped me with study plan, questions, quizzes, mind maps and summery my go to tool for exam preps

KESHETTY Goud Mar 31, 2026 [email protected]

dumped like 6 months of meal prep notes in here and now I can just ask 'what did I make with chickpeas' instead of scrolling forever. saves time when I'm trying to remember what actually tasted good lol

Mariana Correa Mar 11, 2026 [email protected]

I upload all my research datasets and analysis notes here. It connects patterns across different projects that I wouldn't have noticed manually. Basically like having a research assistant who remembers everything.

Mayank Gregory Mar 10, 2026 [email protected]

threw all my meal prep recipes and macro spreadsheets in here. now i can just ask it stuff like 'high protein vegan lunch under 500 calories' and it pulls from my own saved recipes. saves me so much mental energy during prep

Raaghav Pohutezhini Mar 6, 2026 [email protected]

been a lifesaver while preparing for exams.

Kalash Bangerwa Mar 4, 2026 [email protected]

I've dumped all my saved vegan recipes and meal prep notes into this and it's incredible. Suggests ingredient swaps when I'm missing something and pulls up similar recipes I forgot I saved. My meal planning is actually organized now.

Honesty May Feb 24, 2026 [email protected]

been using this to organize all my recipe clippings and cooking notes. it connects ingredients across different recipes and suggests substitutions i wouldn't think of. like having a sous chef who actually remembers everything i've cooked before

J.I. Feb 20, 2026 [email protected]

My personal favourite tool out there apart from the most obvious ones. This tool is great at representing, or as I like to say re-presenting information in multiple different formats to multiple different audiences. Also made a video about it https://youtu.be/V0Wls2zILes

Sharan Smith Feb 3, 2026 [email protected]

Been feeding it my datasets and analysis notes, it's surprisingly good at spotting connections I overlooked. Used it to prep for a presentation and the way it organized my messy statistical findings actually made sense.

Ani Amee Dec 24, 2025 [email protected]

I was surprised how well this summarizes fitness podcasts I don't have time to finish. Drops all the important nutrition tips and workout science into clean notes I can reference. Would love if it had meal planning features built in, but for learning it's been helpful.

Oliver Liu Dec 18, 2025 [email protected]

This has become essential for preparing presentations. Takes long documents and creates clean summaries with key points I can turn into slides. Saves hours of reading through materials. Not perfect for every format, but for research heavy presentations it's excellent.

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