10 Ways To Use NotebookLM, in Less Than 10 Minutes

[@BlazingZebra]

support my research, join patreon and grab the cheat sheet here: www.patreon.com/posts/notebooklm-10-113065553

[@eaglegp7]

I need help building and open agi. Blazing , can you help?😊

[@carolseymour1105]

I joined the patron ..but could not Access the cheat sheets. Could you help me please. I want to outline my novel on notebook😊

[@BlazingZebra]

@@carolseymour1105 Just seeing this now. If you are still having trouble, please reach out here: bzgroup.ai/contact/

[@chrisbednar3578]

Figured I would share. I run an industrial CNC router, and it's old. 1999, OS (FANUC) last updated 1994. It took me 2 months with all the manuals to learn how to run this thing, hunt down specific parameters in the 900+ page parameter manual, etc. etc. (we bought it used and I had to figure it out from scratch) Well, I have PDFs of all the manuals. I haphazardly threw them into NotebookLM and I immediately asked it a really granular question about a specific parameters for controlling RS232 Baud rate - immediately answered me, and one of the 3 things it brought up when I asked was the exact answer I was looking for. Excited to find even more uses for this! Thanks for the vid!

[@danielelkadi3499]

wow. That is actually amazing!

[@FatLossuniversityy]

Brilliant!

[@laStar972chuck]

Wow ! Thanks for sharing !! Such a tremendous use case🔥🔥❤❤

[@BlazingZebra]

that is really fantastic. i have had a similar experience with some camera equipment. especially trying to get different pieces of equipment to work together.

[@lucyn.7501]

This is a video full of value, i love how it explains all the use cases rather than just showing features and functions of "yet another AI product"

[@BlazingZebra]

thanks for this comment! very helpful!

[@turntimetwisted]

I have a Gemini Advanced subscription in my business' Google Workspace account. Gemini can now take notes in Meet meetings. You get a Doc with a summary, as well as a full transcript at the end which can be added to NotebookLM.

[@BlazingZebra]

very cool, i find the full transcriptions useful down the road.

[@SophieJjishuaa]

aitutorialmaker AI fixes this. NotebookLM: Versatile AI-powered note-taking.

[@BlazingZebra]

please tell me more.. ?

[@sammyegot]

I subscribed immediately after gaining good value from this video. Thanks for putting this together.

[@BlazingZebra]

Glad it was helpful!

[@SallyMangos]

So I reckon in a about a year, you'll be able to download three different biographies of Winston Churchill into NotebookLM and a AI version of Steve Bartlett will produce a three-hour podcast featuring an AI-generated voice of Churchill, using this material. Amazing!!

[@BlazingZebra]

indeed!

[@gregnixon1296]

I upload exemplar reports and then my own. Next, I ask NLM for ways I can improve my work. Very helpful.

[@BlazingZebra]

great to hear! new video monday all about this!

[@brucebenik2]

Woosh! Woosh! Woosh! The sound of my atention span getting carried away again and again as it was overcome by the magic like dreams inspired by the use cases of Notebok LM.

[@BlazingZebra]

awesome! i know the feeling!

[@chomskysfavefive]

For creative writing, this seems like a great tool. I'm able to import my outlines and character notes to get an idea of what the AI thinks about my story. That gives me a fairly decent idea of how well the ideas are getting across. Obviously some decisions just dont translate, but I figure if AI can understand what I'm trying to do, the average person probably will too.

[@BlazingZebra]

yes it can be a great point if reference! but i feel it may actually understand (or pay attention) better than some readers ;)

[@stony42069]

I have been working on game development and I put some large content within it and it gives great results.. I didn't know you could put more than one document.. now I'm going to upload them all into one notebook and see if it will show me inconsistency or underdeveloped aspects or just piece things together in a way I haven't considered.. who knows really 🎉

[@BlazingZebra]

experimenting is key!

[@rolfedrengen]

The Audio Overview feature is very impressive indeed, I also find that uploading a lot of sources make the "podcast" wierd. The wierdness is when it tries to make connections between the sources. When I upload a paper, and article, an assignment or whatever, the podcast feature is VERY good at finding new (to me hidden) contexts and perspectives.

[@SubhanHamid]

yes, One PDF source is working very good for me so far when using the audio conversation feature.

[@BlazingZebra]

good to know! i rarely do one only, but i will try it!

[@lyssettehawthorne-wilson145]

I love the podcast section!

[@BlazingZebra]

oh yeah! if you like that make sure to check out the video i am dropping on monday!

[@davideylerYT]

Wow I love all of these use cases - well done!

[@BlazingZebra]

glad you got something outta this!

[@johnsydneymcnair7077]

Excellent presentation of Google NotebookLM, thank you

[@BlazingZebra]

You are very welcome!

[@hellsowner8513]

Will DEFINITELY watch this video once my exams are over to learn this tool - can you make a comparison video of this with the known AI tools - especially those which are useful for students and researchers with bulk of articles to read.

[@BlazingZebra]

awesome! i have a big section on using it for learning in my next video.

[@aiforculture]

Excellent suggestions! I'm running a session which is exploring playful applications of NotebookLM and this has given me lots of extra ideas. Will signpost people back to you. Thanks!

[@BlazingZebra]

Glad it was helpful!

[@proflead]

Great content! Thanks!

[@BlazingZebra]

thanks!!🙏

[@celindsey6018]

great overview and use case presentation. liked and subscribed!

[@BlazingZebra]

Awesome! Glad you got something from it!

[@TheJaredChamberlain]

Love this… where do you download PDF versions of your books from?

[@BlazingZebra]

You can convert kindle into pdf w epubor.com

[@jamessullenriot]

Can't believe Tony Romo has time for this channel and call games on the weekend

[@BlazingZebra]

😂

[@notonlybarcelona]

Grande. Thanks so much really for all the steps/points. New Sub from ITALY 🇮🇹

[@BlazingZebra]

oh yeah! can’t wait to visit italy someday!!

[@ziarezvi1480]

Absolutely awesome!!! Many thanks for the effort you put into producing this

[@BlazingZebra]

My pleasure!

[@zerobrain17]

Great video! The Podcast feature is amazing!

[@BlazingZebra]

Glad you enjoy it!

[@JavArButt]

This sounds pretty interesting, you convinced me to give it inshallah try. By the way, your content seems to high quality.

[@BlazingZebra]

awesome! thanks for the kind words! let me know how it goes!

[@organizerofthingsandstuff]

Thank you for all this information.

[@BlazingZebra]

u bet! curious what was most valuable?

[@organizerofthingsandstuff]

@@BlazingZebra #5 was my favorite

[@KlaasVictor]

Thank you very much!😯 This video is amazing! How do you upload books? Via PDF?

[@BlazingZebra]

yep!

[@PatrickOgay]

Thanks for comprehensive overview. NotebookLM's capabilities are absolutely impressive. I would be interested to know whether you can read emails directly from a mailbox. I write a lot, in the form of emails. What I would also be very interested to know is that I keep a grid diary every day, with multiple columns, handwritten, and quite complex. Is there an AI that can read complex handwritten notes and digitize them in the given format grid? Maybe somebody can give me a hint. Thanks

[@BlazingZebra]

uploading a photo to chatgpt might work but the columns might cause trouble. make.com is good for connecting email to ai but unfortunately notebooklm has no api and cannot connect to email or other things.

[@fidelkipkoech5555]

I love your work man👍

[@BlazingZebra]

thanks for the kind words!!

[@shoufen]

Thank you for this wonderful video. I have a question: if I upload a book to Notebook LM to make a podcast, will that be possible involved in a copyright issue?

[@BlazingZebra]

i do not think so, but i am not a lawyer, i believe google will announce a policy on this soon as many people have this concern.

[@scrollop]

Can you describe your Virtual assistant and how it accesses podcasts and interacts with notebookllm? That sounds very interesting

[@fractalbeans9513]

Oh yes, please, second that question! What an inspiring video, thank you!

[@ErichMillerTV]

I think he is talking about a real person assistant... wasn't he?

[@raimondtracar8703]

​@@ErichMillerTV yeah, a real person virtual asy

[@BlazingZebra]

the virtual assistant is a human. perhaps it is an out of date term these days but remote assistants used to be referred to as VAs or virtual assistants. i will probably stop using this term now as it has caused so much confusion 😂

[@MassInfinity]

Thank you!

[@BlazingZebra]

u bet!

[@cuentadeyoutube5903]

It is interesting to see what kind of material you add to these notebooks. But I’m not sure what kind of information you get from that? What do you ask? How do you use the notebook once you have your data in?

[@BlazingZebra]

in a nutshell, this tool is amazing at finding unique connections between various nuances of the source material without injecting hallucinations or ideas not present in the source material.

[@NLPprompter]

I'm worry this tool in Google hands, this Google company have tendency to "at sudden removing their product", or at sudden"the product update making it more bad rather than more best"

[@uwepleban3784]

There already exists an open source version.

[@NLPprompter]

@@uwepleban3784 which? please share, i can't find any. there are only rag and robotic "podcast generator" 1. why this Google voice podcast sound so different it's sound so amazingly good with sounds and speech emotions and not robotic? 2. how in earth they able to make the RAG system beyond my expectations, it's ridiculously accurate and.... this RAG system isn't like other's i have tried, the AI model got ability to distinguish which information provided and which information from their previous training. it means this RAG system have achieved my ideal RAG where model doesn't provide information beyond provided data. 3. yep for learning tools the pre-made prompts call library are sufficient. I'm not sure how open source able to compete with this kind of system.

[@NLPprompter]

@@uwepleban3784 i i haven't find any, please share, what I found they are not as powerful as notebookLM...

[@tlc12070]

@@uwepleban3784do share

[@TamalPlays]

@@uwepleban3784 what it is?

[@blackbird_actual]

Having tested it out a bit, NotebookLM is truly amazing. I can't wait to see how it will improve in the coming years.

[@BlazingZebra]

agreed!!

[@GiorgioRizziBienEtre]

Thanks for this video. What do you suggest answering to a client that is concerned about confidentiality?

[@BlazingZebra]

privacy/confidentiality is a serious issue and everyone has a different approach. i would suggest having a open conversation with them about the risks of not using tools like this. i would not upload social security numbers, wage info etc, but i have a hard time seeing the downside of brainstorming marketing ideas, etc. you may also wanna simply share the privacy policies of the tools you use with the client.

[@rochford4204]

​@@BlazingZebraprivacy policies aren't worth the paper they're written on 😂

[@JimIntriglia]

Thanks for the video. If Notebook LLM could also contribute and manage the content in notebooks, that would be a game changer. For example, if you setup a project plan and NotebookLLM could add content to the plan based on a discussion with it, wow.

[@BlazingZebra]

that’s basically what the notes section does i think ;)

[@gregnixon1296]

@@BlazingZebra @Jimintriglia is suggesting a self-directing data addition capability for NLM. We can do without that much autonomy from a test tube, my friend.

[@Lily_Anne]

Thanks for all the great info! Can you tell me how to reroll the Deep Dive Conversation after you've added new resources? I just can't figure it out. Thanks again/

[@BlazingZebra]

i think you need to put everything in a new notebook. thanks for the kind words!

[@Lily_Anne]

@@BlazingZebra Thank you for answering. I appreciate it.👋

[@arfarfington]

Do you have a video on how to set up the virtual assistant you mention in the video?

[@BlazingZebra]

thanks for watching- the virtual assistant is a real person (remote worker).

[@NerdySTEMCutie]

Hello!! New visitor, subscriber, and fan. I really liked your teaching style!! ❤ You're an excellent communicator and educator! Thank you very much! Can you teach about AI automations (i.e., how to use AI to automate each step of the content creation process, specifically with Make AI and/or Wondr AI, etc.) pretty please with a 🍒 on top? I'd love to learn about such a difficult process from such a good teacher. 🙏🏻🏆

[@BlazingZebra]

here you go! kzbin.info/www/bejne/gIO5nqCanpt0mrc

[@PotheekAami]

I kept waiting for the things you said you will show later on and but never found them. How do you set up and use the virtual assistant for example? How do you use NotebookLM with other platforms/apps? Ohh well. Take care.

[@BlazingZebra]

the virtual assistant is a human :) descript is the app i use to edit podcasts, epub is how you can create pdfs ;)

[@tmbldust]

great summary. how do you upload the books in there?

[@BlazingZebra]

you convert them to pdf and simply upload :)

[@baxterscruggs8225]

Great contnet. Thanks

[@BlazingZebra]

glad it was helpful!

[@geofftewksbury7500]

Great video! Do you have any information on virtual assistant you’ve configured to grab the youtube transcriptions and upload them to NotebookLM?

[@BlazingZebra]

she is a real person :)

[@stricksstudio]

Super content from this. Is there a way to simply change the voices yet on NotebookLM?

[@BlazingZebra]

unfortunately not yet! thanks for watching!

[@anamilena3257]

You may isolate the male and female voice, and then have them changed in ElevenLabs. You must pay for the most affordable creator plan to access this option, though! 🙂

[@BlazingZebra]

yeah! that would be one way to do it!

[@fernandodiaz8231]

Thank you for the ideas you describe in your videos. I have tried NotebooksLM and found that the Podcast it generates is only done in English. What is your best recommendation for translating it into another language while maintaining the emotion in the exposition and considering that there are two characters?

[@BlazingZebra]

i don’t know of a way to do that easily. it would take some transcription (descript), translation (chatgpt or claude) text to voice (eleven labs or ditto) editing (descript)

[@mumphalee]

Great tips, thank you! Anyone know how to upload books into the platform?

[@BlazingZebra]

convert kindle versions to pdf in epubor

[@ousmanediouf9264]

So much value

[@BlazingZebra]

love to hear it! anything particularly useful off the top of your head?

[@jackbaker3866]

When you're using it for keeping up to date with news and information, are you manually uploading the sources each week or is there a way for it to automatically pull from the same channel/news source/etc.?

[@BlazingZebra]

it is manually at this point

[@mattestes523]

What Virtual Assistant tool do you use?

[@BlazingZebra]

this is a real person

[@hduverge]

Where do you get the books from to upload? And what is the format needed? Thanks.

[@BlazingZebra]

pdf. i convert kindle books using the tools at the end of the video

[@mm0dk0ur]

How would the assistant logs into wall street journal and new york times? Appreciate to elaborate. Thanks.

[@BlazingZebra]

she has access to my accounts.

[@tombontempi2698]

Hey, Bz new subscriber . Just wondering I am new and making podcasts, can videos be created from those podcast? Thanks

[@BlazingZebra]

yeah! pull them into descript and add some stock footage. look at my newest video for creating data visualizations, some folks are creating talking avatars (using heygen maybe) for the voices too

[@Top10TravelDestinations516]

Ok, thanks for the help

[@billscheider9970]

I'm a book addict :). How do you get those books into Notebook. I've been following you for a while and joined the Patreon group last week. Already got my money's worth. Thanks for all the work you do to keep us in the know!

[@adamhammons5672]

What’s in Patreon that you used?

[@newhopeforhealing]

I'm curious too. I hope we get an answer :)

[@BlazingZebra]

hey! sorry for the delayed response! you can use epubor.com to convert kindle to PDF. thanks for the patreon support!!

[@lakeelectric]

I living in Yarmouth Maine also. I love this stuff Ai stuff. I would like to meet up to develop some ideas. thanks for the video. Godfrey

[@BlazingZebra]

That would be cool! We should meet up! hit me up here bzgroup.ai/contact/

[@ciprodriguez]

They say deep dive but it's not really a deep dive

[@focco9738]

Do you know we can upload and publish these podcasts created by NotebookLM or Illuminate to our KZbin channels with monetization? Is it allowed by google or youtube? I can't find anything about it. Thanks.

[@BlazingZebra]

i would assume it is fine as it is in their best interest, but i am not 100% certain. i dropped a portion of one in a couple yt videos and was not flagged.

[@nolow_life]

2:06 notebook can transcribe KZbin videos itself

[@FatLossuniversityy]

Dude this was so good! Subd

[@BlazingZebra]

Thanks for the sub!

[@Satora1000]

thank you for the great Content!

[@BlazingZebra]

My pleasure!

[@stevewardmediallc1595]

Mind blown!

[@BlazingZebra]

thanks for watching!

[@MichaelLaFrance1]

You can enter KZbin links directly, you don't need to transcribe them first.

[@GregRodgers1]

Is there a way to influence the length of my podcast? The ones I try usually end up being around 6 to 7 minutes.

[@BlazingZebra]

not that i know of. feels rather random. it recently generated a 24 min one for me while most of the others are 9 min.

[@dkteachlife]

Can I ask if you have been able to get it to make slide presentations based on for example unit plans for teachers? For example load a lesson template and have it generate a whole deck of lessons for the unit based on a unit plan with lesson plans 1-30 lessons.

[@BlazingZebra]

sounds like u would need to use a few tools and a few steps to do that, i have a video on creating slides with it coming soon tho!

[@mikethelma]

I just watched a video on "Napkin". It's a site to take a document of a procedure and produce lots of diagrams.

[@FlowCreators]

55 seconds in and just noticed your channel name. I just want to say it fits you well 😆 Very memorable too. Have you been looking to create a new graphics/logo for your page my man? I never usually pitch myself like this but I feel l could get you right.

[@BlazingZebra]

hit me up at bzgroup.ai

[@2nice79]

i hve tried multiple youtube links from multiple sources and it often tells me the transcript is not avaiable whne it is available if i go to the youtube page directoin. what are the limitations on the youtube links when applying to google lm

[@BlazingZebra]

yeah, i have had trouble with those links as well!

[@phyllisscalettar6581]

Can you take a podcast and post the audio on a website?

[@BlazingZebra]

it would be easier to convert to a simple video and embed, i am releasing a video today all about this.

[@DarrenOverby]

1:34 I would love to have my virtual assistant help me with this also. However, when I tried it the podcast sometimes anonymized important details out of the story so it was no longer useful to me as a news feed. For example, the names of key people and the names of businesses. Is there a way to prevent it from doing this?

[@BlazingZebra]

i don’t think so, its probably an intentional guardrail set for privacy or copyright issues. good question tho!

[@mikethelma]

That is what's motivating the move to self hosted LLMs. There are "uncensored" LLMs that should help.

[@antkn33]

What format are the books in? Kindle? PDF?

[@BlazingZebra]

the must be pdf to upload

[@hanagazoli]

Do you have a video on how you create your virtual Assistant?

[@BlazingZebra]

she is a real person working remotely. possibly an outdated term these days ;)

[@notonlybarcelona]

She Is Human Person😅

[@gunerg9033]

You mentioned a video on how you use descript…can you provide a link?

[@BlazingZebra]

hmmm…. i don’t have a full video on descript, i mainly use it to edit videos

[@DaleBertrand]

How do you get the full text of books you’ve read to import into NotebookLM?

[@BlazingZebra]

upload pdfs :) there are resources at the for converting kindle into pdf

[@micbab-vg2mu]

thanks:)

[@BlazingZebra]

You're welcome!

[@remi.bolduc]

Hi. If you upload 10 books. you have to upload them again every time you are using NotebookLM ?

[@BlazingZebra]

no they are stored in yr notebook ;)

[@remi.bolduc]

@@BlazingZebra Thanks. I did not know this : To name your NotebookLM, click on "Untitled" at the top center of the screen. After naming it, you can access your NotebookLMs by clicking on "NotebookLM" in the top left corner.

[@Marsh1983]

Can these podcasts go longer than 15 mins? Like long form 2 hours

[@BlazingZebra]

not in my experience

[@MarketWatcherZ]

Can you use the OUTPUT Audio and generation commercially? We cant find anything on this, if you feed it your own data and it creates the Audio Podcast - Who owns it? We asked AI's this question on commercial useage and it says "part of Google Workspace, it's likely that standard Google Workspace terms of use apply, which generally restrict using the platform’s outputs for commercial sale or redistribution without permission"

[@BlazingZebra]

many people are using it commercially.

[@agracian1]

you don't need to transcribe youtube videos now. Just paste the video link and it does it all..

[@BlazingZebra]

sometimes that works and sometimes it doesn’t

[@webgpu]

at the beginning of the video, i see and hear this guy and i remembered the song "get up stand up" and i don't know why... 🚬😆

[@igorryabets5175]

Next phase - avatar!

[@BlazingZebra]

indeed! lotsa folks are doing that!

[@kirtg1]

thanks for the vid. i tried nlm to access a 400 pdf. it worked fine at first then slowly decayed in accurate responses and then said it could not respond anymore? any ideas why it stopped working?

[@BlazingZebra]

i have had similar experiences, i am not exactly sure how to fix this, i feel like there must be a way to reset the chat string, possibly by creating a note.

[@MohammedAli-tq8ln]

In the first use case, the transcription step using external tool is unnecessary as NotebookLLM now can natively process the information in the KZbin video

[@BlazingZebra]

yeah, that is a very new feature. we will be doing that going forward.

[@stanTrX]

What is the open source , local alternative?

[@BlazingZebra]

i am not sure these is one but i bet alot of people would be interested in that!

[@lionnonny]

It's on HuggingFace, has NotebookLM in title though, but don't recall offhand what it is exactly.

[@hanagazoli]

Which AI KZbin channels do you recommend to follow?

[@BlazingZebra]

i like skill leap, ai andy and ai jason alot. ethan mollacks blog is also fantastic. in patreon i share resources like this weekly ;)

[@Kikeags]

What's the name of the transcription tool he mentioned? Descript? De-script?

[@BlazingZebra]

descript

[@tonybrown3895]

Not surprising I guess, but it looks like we are following many of the same YT channels. I can't keep up either. 😄

[@BlazingZebra]

It is impossible :)

[@jake13122]

What's the software for editing the podcasts?

[@BlazingZebra]

descript

[@claudioagmfilho]

🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷👏🏻, It's amazing!

[@BlazingZebra]

thanks!

[@ChathurangiShyalika]

Can I share the notebookLM to public?

[@BlazingZebra]

no just internally

[@stenmajor963]

Are there no problems with Data privacy if you upload infos about your clients?

[@webgpu]

*any

[@BlazingZebra]

you would want to disclose ai use with clients for sure

[@JoeBodego]

thanks for this

[@BlazingZebra]

u bet!!

[@yawadjei7814]

Can you load epub?

[@BlazingZebra]

it needs to be pdf i think

[@stardustjazz2935]

😢 KZbin links dont work anymore ( even with transkript)

[@BlazingZebra]

interesting!

[@Essential-Self]

Hi there, great video. I need help creating an agent with all my teaching texts. No code guy

[@BlazingZebra]

cool! the word agent can mean alot of things these days. curious what exactly you want it to do. have you tried creating a custom gpt and adding some of your docs to it?

[@RachelLau]

what is your Virtual assistant? A service? Person?

[@BlazingZebra]

a person :)

[@wise1992-y2p]

Can i get monetized creating podcast with this tool?

[@BlazingZebra]

i think it’s technically possible but might be difficult

[@lilpingpeep9939]

4:53 project notebooks plz tell me in detail I want to creat podcast

[@BlazingZebra]

just load sources, click generate and upload to spotify!

[@kateangelo]

Why is she transcribing the videos instead of just uploading the KZbin URL as a source and allowing notebook LM to do it for you?

[@TheAndrewPR93]

My guess is because this video was recorded prior to the YT addition which is a very recent feature in NotebookLM. At least I hope that’s the case and not useless steps due to wrong instructions/lack of knowledge.

[@BlazingZebra]

that feature only recently rolled out! and thats what we will be doing going forward;)

[@yoagcur]

@@BlazingZebra I tried this with your video and it does not load: with error message ''cannot be imported. Transcript not available". I havent loaded a youtube video succesfully yet

[@Cincy75805]

@@yoagcurif you tried doing it on a mobile device, that may be the problem. I had similar issues when trying to paste the link from my iPad KZbin app into LM. Worked fine when I did it from my browser on my desktop.

[@hussla28]

Isn't this what you do with GPTs? Feed them with specific knowledge and interact?

[@BlazingZebra]

similar but this works differently as it is 100% grounded in the source material and ux is specific to this use case

[@ciprodriguez]

Why use descript when merlin youtube transcripts is free

[@dfxdfx5368]

Does the "podcast" work in other languages as well?

[@Reneclauslarsen]

No, only in english…as for now.

[@andyhorne9747]

You can download them and there are translation tools - but I suspect more languages will be available soon in NotebookLM