I recently revisited Google’s NotebookLM and I was impressed with how far it’s come. It was already good before, but recent updates have have me hooked in and I will keep coming back. Powered by Google’s Gemini AI, it can break down complex subjects into an easy to understand format or even help you brainstorm new ideas. If you’re a chaotic notetaker like me, even better: NotebookLM will help you make sense of your nonsense.

This isn’t just Google Keep stuffed with AI, nor is it just a chatbot that can take notes. It’s both and neither. Instead of asking questions to Gemini, only for it to find an answer from the ether of the internet, NotebookLM will only search through the sources that you provide it. It’s a dead simple concept that feels like one of the most practical uses of AI, giving way to the perfect study buddy for classes or work. And Google didn’t stop there. 

Acum poate face mult mai mult și vă va răsplăti căutarea pentru a vedea ce poate face pentru dumneavoastră. Și caracteristici precum impresionantul său... Prezentări generale audio au pătruns de atunci în Gemenii itself, allowing it to be used in a much wider set of Google’s products. With Google I/O 2025 just around the corner, we wouldn’t be surprised if even more features were added.   

Below, we’ll cover some of NotebookLM’s most interesting features and use cases to help you get started. 

For more, don’t miss our hands-on with Gemini Live’s camera mode: AI with eyes.

Ce este NotebookLM?

NotebookLM este un instrument de asistență pentru luarea de notițe și cercetare bazat pe Gemini, care poate fi utilizat într-o multitudine de moduri. Totul începe cu sursele pe care le alimentezi, fie că sunt... adrese URL ale paginilor web, videoclipuri YouTube sau clipuri audio, permițându-vă să reuniți mai multe surse într-un pachet coerent și să aduceți o oarecare organizare gândurilor sau notițelor dvs. împrăștiate. 

Cea mai evidentă utilizare a NotebookLM este la școală sau la serviciu. Gândește-te - ai ținut pasul cu nenumărate cursuri, ai luat notițe pentru fiecare dintre ele și poate chiar ai înregistrat unele prelegeri. Analizând fiecare element individual, poți ajunge în cele din urmă la o oarecare înțelegere, dar ce-ar fi dacă le-ai putea face să funcționeze împreună? 

După ce ați încărcat sursele, Gemini va începe să lucreze pentru a crea un rezumat general al materialului. De acolo, puteți începe să adresați întrebări Gemini despre subiecte specifice din surse, iar informațiile din surse vor fi afișate într-un format ușor de înțeles. Acest lucru în sine poate fi suficient pentru unii oameni care doresc doar să profite la maximum de notițele lor, dar asta e doar o mică parte.

Best on the desktop browser, with apps on the way

NotebookLM was originally designed for the desktop browser and that’s currently the best way to experience it. You can access it from your mobile browser but it can be cumbersome. 

There’s currently no app available for NotebookLM but one is close to launching. In fact, you can preregister to be notified when it’s available for iOS şi Android devices chiar acum. 

Broken into a three-pane layout, NotebookLM consists of Source, Chat and Studio panels. Both the Source and Studio panels are collapsible, so you can have a full-screen chat experience if you so choose. 

While the Source and Chat panels are pretty self-explanatory, the Studio panel is where magic can happen, (though some of the features can also be created directly from the Chat panel). This is where you can get the most out of your NotebookLM experience. Below are some highlights of what you can do. 

Prezentări generale audio

If you didn’t hear about NotebookLM when it was first announced, you likely did when Audio Overviews were released for it. Once you have at least once source uploaded, you can then opt to generate an Audio Overview, which will provide a “deep dive” on the source material. These overviews are created by none other than Gemini and it’s not just a quick summary of your material in audio format — it’s a full-blown podcast with two “hosts” that break down complex topics into easy to understand pieces of information. They’re incredibly effective, too, often asking each other questions to dismantle certain topics. 

The length of an Audio Overview will vary depending on how much material there is to go over and the complexity of the topic — though I’m sure there are other factors at play. In my testing, a very short piece of text created a 5-minute audio clip, where two lengthier and more dense Google Docs I uploaded created a 18-minute Overview. 

Poți interacționa cu podcasterii tăi cu inteligență artificială

Devine și mai bine. În decembrie anul trecut, NotebookLM a primit un design nou și noi modalități de interacțiune cu Prezentările generale audio. If you want to guide the conversation so that key points are covered, the customize button will allow you to do just that. Type in your directive and then generate your Audio Overview. 

Now, if you want to make this feature even more interactive, you can choose the Interactive mode, which is still in beta, to join the conversation. The clip will play and if you have a particular question in response to something that’s said, you can click the join button. Once you do, the speakers will pause and acknowledge your presence and ask you to chime in with thoughts or questions, and you’ll get a reply. 

I wanted to try something a little different, so I threw in the lyrics of a song as the only source, and the AI podcast duo began to dismantle the motivations and emotions behind the words. I used the join feature to point out a detail in the lyrics they didn’t touch on and the two began to dissect what my suggestion meant in the context of the writing. They then began linking the theme to other portions of the text. It was impressive to watch: They handled the emotional weight of the song so well, and tactfully at that. 

Hărți mentale

I’d heard interesting things about NotebookLM’s Mind Map feature, but I wanted to go in blind when I tried it out, so I did a separate test. I took roughly 1,500 words of Homer’s Odyssey and made that my only source. I then clicked the Mind Map button and within seconds an interactive and categorical breakdown of the text was displayed for me to poke around in. 

Many of the broken down sections had subsections for deeper dives, some of which were dedicated to single lines for dissection. Clicking on a category or end-point of the map will open the chat with a prefilled prompt. 

I chose to dive into the line, “now without remedy” and once clicked, the chat portion of NotebookLM reopened with the prefilled prompt of, “Discuss what these sources say about Now without remedy, in the larger context of [the subsection] Alternative (worse).” The full line was displayed, including who it was said by, what it was in response to and any motivations (or other references) for why the line was said in the text. 

Ghiduri de studiu și multe altele 

Dacă o combinație între toate acele prezentări audio și hărți mentale ar putea face tot ce ar putea face un student pentru a fi partenerul perfect de studiu, NotebookLM are și alte câteva caracteristici care îl vor consolida în acest sens. 

Ghiduri de studiu

După ce ați încărcat o sursă, puteți crea un ghid de studiu rapid bazat pe material, care va furniza automat un document cu un test, potențiale întrebări de eseu, un glosar de termeni cheie și răspunsuri pentru test în partea de jos. Și, dacă doriți, puteți chiar converti ghidul de studiu într-o sursă pentru caietul dvs.

Întrebări frecvente

Whether you’re using it for school or want to create a FAQ page for your website, there’s a NotebookLM button that will generate a series of potentially common questions based on your sources. 

Cronologie

If you’re looking for a play by play type of timeline, it’s built right in. Creating a timeline for the Odyssey excerpt broke down main events in a bulleted list and placed them based on the times mentioned in the material. If an event takes place at an unspecified time, it will appear at the top of the timeline stating so. A cast of characters for reference is also generated below the timeline of events. 

Document informativ

Documentul informativ este exact ceea ce pare a fi, oferindu-vă o scurtă prezentare generală a temelor cheie și a evenimentelor importante pentru a vă pune la curent. Acesta va include citate specifice din sursă și locația acesteia. Un rezumat al materialului este, de asemenea, creat în partea de jos a documentului. 

Dacă aveți nevoie de mai mult de la NotebookLM, luați în considerare actualizarea

Most individuals may never have the need to pay for NotebookLM, as the free feature is robust enough. But if you’re using it for work and need to be able to add more sources or the option to share your notebook with multiple people, NotebookLM Plus is worth considering. It gives you more of everything while introducing more customization, additional privacy and security features as well as analytics. 

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