Master NotebookLM in 116 Minutes: Smart Ways to Use It for Business, Marketing, Learning & Real Life

1. Trailer: AI tools are controversial for a reason. I've been pretty deep in this space for a while, for a pretty while. And honestly, I've been watching how people actually use AI, and as true. A lot of AI shortcuts and tools they make us think less. Less independently, less critically. But there is one tool that feels completely different. It's way more grounded in reality, way more reliable, and weirdly enough, it actually supports your brain. Instead of replacing it long term. And listen, I think that's the most exciting part. It can seriously level you off in work, business, learning new skills, even in your personal life. And I have to tell you, I personally know people who built entire businesses using Notebook LM. How that's exactly what we are also getting into today. And I'm not just going to talk about it. I will show you everything because that's honestly the most fun and most useful way to learn this. I will also opt you for some business and strategic use cases that althos nobody talks about. Now I know this might sound like a bold take. But I genuinely think Notebook LM is kind of revolutionary. A lot of people won't agree with that. But from what I've seen, it's usually because they just don't know what it can actually do yet. There are so many features and little tricks that completely change the game. And yeah, there is a lot to uncover, so here is the challenge for today. I'm going to show you all of this in Ns. And by the end of it, you will be using Notebook LM better than like 95% of people out there. So let's go. 2. Your Class Project: Class project. I really want you to get the most out of this tool and honestly to start enjoying it as much as I do. I don't want this to be one of those courses, those classes where you just watch everything, think to yourself, Oh, yeah, that's pretty interesting. That's pretty awesome. And then never use it. I really want you to keep up and learn this tool and practice, not just possibly consume my content, okay? So here's your project, your little homework. As you go through the course, start building your own notebook M workspace. It can be anything, your new business idea, content strategy, for your social media, something you're learning right now, something you are teaching maybe, or a personal project just for fun. Don't wait for the perfect idea for the perfect project. Just pick something today. A work report, a hobby you want to get better at, or even a bunch of articles you've been saving and never got around to. Open a new notebook, upload your files, find new sources, ask your fist questions, work with different formats and methods I'm showing you in the course. Because the goal is simple. Don't just watch. Don't just watch. Actually, use what you are learning. At the end of this course, I want you to show me that this wasn't just passive watching. Okay, I really need you to take action. That's my biggest goal. And here's what I need you to do. Take a screenshot of your favorite notebook alum notebook, the one you will create after watching the course or during watching the course and show one feature that you genuinely loved and got excited about using. Ideally, it's something you discovered because of this course, something that made you go, Oh, yeah. This actually changes how I work. That's it. And honestly, if you do this properly, you won't just finish another course. You will walk away with something extremely useful that you will keep using. So let's do this. 3. Why NotebookLM Is Unique + How It Differs from ChatGPT, Gemini or Claude: Why Notebook alum is such an unique tool. Differences between Notebook alum and HAGPT are gemini. If we are being honest, most people stick to tools like HTTPT and Cloud and don't really pay much attention to Google's AI products and tools. And in my opinion, that's a huge mistake because right now they're incredibly powerful. Right now, Notebook Am has over 50 million users, but most of them are barely scratching the surface. I really think notebook Am is a total game changer compared to other AI tools because let's be honest, we are all drowning in the sea of revolutionary AI tools that basically do the same thing. You ask a question or give it a process to follow. It gives you an answer and results, and half the time you are wondering if it's making stuff up just to sound smart. Then enters Notebook ALM, and suddenly the game changes. So let me explain briefly why Notebook LAM is not just another tool like all the other ones, because I think most AI tools are like that one friend who knows a little bit about everything, but nothing about your specific project. And Notebook alum is quite the opposite. It doesn't care about the whole Internet. It cares about your documents and the sources you prefer to focus on. So it helps you make sense of the information overload, PDFs, hours of videos, messing notes. And look, Notebook alum is not a chatbot. It's meant to be more like a thinking environment. It's closer to a workspace for thinking than a tool for answering questions. And most AI tools are built for quick answers. And Notebook LAM is built for deep work, deep work. It's not about ask and get an answer. The process in Notebook alm looks more like this. You explore, you connect, you understand, and then you create new hallucinations. I think we've all been there, AI confidently tells you a fact that turns out to be 100% fiction and lie. And notebook M is grounded like literally. It uses source grounding, meaning it only talks about what's in the sauces you provide or the sauces you select. So when it says something, it shows you the receipts, citations. It's like it's AI, but AI do being accountable. We love to see it, ya. Also, instead of just summarizing the sauces, Notebook M is amazing to help you connect the dots. You can ask it for so many things. You can ask it to create a study guide, a marketing plan. Or even a script based on your messy notes. It takes your cause and turns it into something much more manageable, and I will show you it's so good at it. I will upload my personal notes, my business documents, but what about safety you might want to ask? I'm glad you asked. And I have good news here. Your data isn't used to train Google's models. It's as safe as your private Google Doc. I would say it's a much safer option than, for example, hA GPT. From consumption to creation. In my opinion, other tools help you consume information faster. Most tools help you read faster and do everything faster and replace your thinking. But notebook lo helps you do something with what you read. You can turn your research into a content strategy, turn your nodes into a product idea. Turn very scattered thoughts into a clear plan. That way, notebook alm supports your thinking. But what actually matters is how does this show up in your day to day life? And the cool part about Notebook M is that it's not built for one type of person, not only for students, as many people assume out there, not at all. It adapts to how you think and what you work on. So if you are a content creator, for example, you can turn scattered ideas, saved post, research and random notes into actual content that's valuable and thoughtful for your audience. Instead of jumping between tops and trying to piece things together, you can organize your research in one place, and that's amazing. I very often drown in my research, and Nuukm is italy game changer. It literally turns my cows into something much more manageable. And you can generate content ideas based on your sources, turn notes into scripts, outlines, or even full posts. So it basically can become your behind the scenes content brain, and it's much more reliable than HAGPT. And if you are a founder, this is where it also gets very powerful. You can drop in your strategy docs, meeting notes, market research, internal ideas. And suddenly instead of digging through your cows, you can ask better questions, spot patterns, make better decisions in your business quicker, or if you are a student or simply anyone learning anything new, instead of just re reading everything, you can generate study guides that are much more brain friendly than non PDFs or many pages from different sources, simplify complex topics, connect ideas across different sources. It means you stop memorizing and you can start actually understanding. So I think that's a revolution for people learning new things. And if you are more on the operation execution side, is there something for you? Of course it is. This is super underrated, I think, and I very rarely see someone talk about this case, but you can take your messy docs, your COPs, your internal knowledge and turn them into clear processes, structured workflows and usable systems. And once you start using notebook LM like this, I'm really sure it stops being just another AI tool. It becomes something you can rely on, you can trust. Because, yeah, there are so many differences between HAGPT and Notebook M, and it's so good to have a tool that's much more reliable. So let's go through it. I will show you everything in practice. 4. Let’s Set Up a Notebook + the Smart Interface: The ARC Loop: Let's set up a notebook, and let's learn about the smart interface, the ARS L. I've seen most people treat Notebook LM like a notes up. But as I've already mentioned, it's much closer to a thinking system if you set it up right. The app is so unique because it's split into three panels. This one right here is where you add sources. Here, you relate to the sauces. And here you communicate. Look, once you are in a notebook, you will see three panels. On the left, you build your knowledge based with sauces. In the middle, you chat with those sauces. And then on the right, this part is called studio. You create outputs from your sauces. So let's look at the sauces on the left. This is basically where you build your brain. You can dump PDFs, YouTube links, or even audio files. You can also add any existing files from your Google account, and this is very important. The answers and knowledge. The things that Notebook LM gives you are based only on the documents that you provided or selected. It's very important to focus on that part because your sources are everything. What you get is based on the sources you you select. So we are going to discuss adding your sources in detail because that's such an important part of the process because by adding sources, you are building your knowledge base for the topic. And, yes, the quality matters the most. But we will get there in a moment. Now let's look at the middle panel. That's the chart. And this is also where the magic happens because you talk to your data, and I think the killer feature that citations every answer, look, every answer has little numbers that link directly to the exact spot in your document and your source. So you can fact check the AI in real time. So yes, when you ask a question, Notebook alum uses Gemini underneath it. But this is very important, but it only references your sources. That's why not gleam is so much more reliable than ChatGPT or even the Gemini chatbot. Okay, now let's look at the panel on the right, that studio. You will hear this name a lot today, and this is where you turn your research into helpful stuff. Study guides frequently ask questions and those viral audio overviews where to AI host turn your notes into a podcast. Yeah, we'll also discuss that. So don't worry, you're COVID. We will discuss everything. But for now, let's begin with the first step and we will discuss everything step by step, so you know everything, but you don't feel the pressure to do everything at once. Okay? All right. The best way to access NotebookLM is through the official website to find it, type NotebookLM into Google. Click here and if you don't have it yet, you will click this button. Try NotebookLM. In my case, I already have an account. So as soon as I open it, you will see my notebooks loading right away the ones I've already created on this account. I actually created this account mainly for the purpose of this course. I didn't want to show you my personal one because it's full of random ideas and so many experiments, it would overwhelm you, I think. I wanted this to be clean and easy to follow so you can really understand what's going on. So I created a few notebooks here, and this is where you will see all the notebooks you create. But we will get to that in a second. If you want some inspiration, there is this feature notebook section, kind of like top picks. There are examples that the Google Team thinks are particularly interesting. For example, secrets of the Super ager. I agree this is very interesting. You have to look at it later. And we'll also come back to this in a bit. But for now, let's look at the layout. Right away, you can see everything is divided into three parts. You have this panel right here with all your sources. Here is the interaction area. And here you have the studio. And actually, what stands out immediately. As you can see, node Bogalem is kind of unique because it allows you to really do this solid content curation because when you use TDPT or Gemini, they have access to the entire Internet, which means the answers can be kind of uncertain. You don't really know where the information is coming from. Sure. You can tell them to focus on certain sources, but when it comes to ChatGPT or Cloud or Gemini chatbot, you can't fully control it. And this is a very important feature of Notebook LM. It only uses the sources that you choose, which means hallucinates are either not there or there is way less of them. So we will come back to those inspiration examples later because they actually very interesting. But for now, let's move on. So, what if you want to create your first notebook? We go back to my notebooks and click Red New Notebook. And here, before you add anything, everything is completely empty, a blank page. Let's say we want to learn about the YouTube algorithm. That's a pretty interesting topic. So what can we do? If you already have your own sources, you can add everything from here. You can upload files from your computer, all kinds of files. Yes, you can check here which formats are supported. They actually a lot. You can also add websites. Most websites and YouTube videos are supported, but here's a small catch. If a website is behind the paywall and you have a subscription, I will show you this in practice later. You often cast it directly as a source. Why? Because Notebook LM doesn't have access to that subscription. So what you can do instead is simply copy the content of the article and paste it in. That way you can still use content from places like Forbes, New York Times, or any page newsletter, for example, Substack, even if you can't input them directly. You can also add anything from your Google Drive, since everything is connected to your Google account is super easy, no extra steps or any obstacles. Now you can also let Notebook alum do its own research. You can choose between fast research and deep research. And fast research as well, faster, and deep research takes longer, so you need a bit more patience when you choose it, and you can tell it to search either your drive or the web. But this is in print, I don't always recommend using it this way because this is actually how most people use the Wdbook alum. They just type in a topic, choose fast research, and let it find sources. So let's do that quickly. We type in the topic, click fast research. And boom, it found sources. You can see them here. There are the sources it pulled during the quick research. And here is why I don't recommend using it like this because at that point, there is not much difference between using Notebook LM, ChatGPT or Gemini. Chatbot. You are still relying on sources you didn't choose consciously. You don't know if the sources are good. You don't know if they are reliable. So what's the point? I recommend using Notebook alum with sources that you know are legit. Either adding them yourself or at least reviewing them more carefully. So you know you can trust them because otherwise, one of these articles could literally be AI generated, generated by HGVT for example, full of errors and hallucinates, and then you are just working with bad data and things that could be not true. So as you can see, everything here is source based and you can remove anything at any time. So let's delete this for now, and I will show you how to do this in a more intentional way. So what do we do? We select everything. We don't want to import any of this. Importing means we actually use the sauces and we don't want that. So we go back here now and we add our own sources, okay. And to do that, we can just paste in YouTube links ideally. From creators we know we are actually reliable. For example, YouTubers are doing great work and aren't lazy. For example, I know that Think Media is a solid source, so I will add it here. I go to website, past the link. And when in printing, you don't have to add everything one by one. You can just separate links with a space or a new line. So I will drop in this video from Think Media. Then, for example, I know this creator is also really trustworthy, so I will add them too. I will look for a few more videos that I'd like to use as sauces and then, okay, um these are reliable. And then, let's say, I also have a Substack open. I know this creator has actually grown a real audience and shes interesting insights. It's not just Fury. She's actually built something big on YouTube and social media. So I will add that, as well. And now, as you can see, at any point, I can choose which sources I want to use and which ones I don't. And for now, I will just select all of them. And here, I already got suggestions. For example, I can ask you to create a plan like how to start posting on YouTube. And what's really interesting is that at this point, Noebook alum is only using these selected sources. And for every statement, every idea, it shows you exactly where it come from. It even has access to YouTube transcript, so everything is grounded and pretty solid. Now I can follow up questions based on this. I can also use its suggested prompts, like what questions are we exploring next? And this is where it gets powerful. By using these specific sources from creators and writers who actually succeeded, you can build your own understanding. You can create your own strategy, your own plan for understanding, for example, the YouTube algorithm, and even growing on the platform yourself. And because of that, your research becomes way more reliable, even more detailed and much more strategic. So that's really, really powerful. 5. Curating the Right Sources: Creating the right sauces. So I already showed you how to ask sauces and why choosing reliable ones really matters. But that's not the whole story. There is one little trick here, and it deserves its own chapter. If you don't have your own files yet, you don't have any PDFs, you don't have any dogs, and you don't have anything you want to upload right here, you want to rely on Notebook alum to do the research for you, and that's all totally fine. It can still do really great work. But here's the thing most people don't realize. And I already told you that. But me too. But that's just a friendly reminder. The quality of what you get depends heavily on the sauces you let in. I mean, we don't want random unreliable though quality sauces, right? We don't want trashy sauces. If you just ask something broad and accept whatever shows up here, you will usually get a mix of random blocks, outdated takes, and surface level explanations. It works, but it's kind of messy. That's why curating your sauces actually matters so much. Most people search for sauces like this. General topic, and that's all they type in here. And that's not what I recommend you to do, of course. You want to be a bit more intentional about it. You need to specify where the info should be coming from. Who is it for? Beginner, maybe someone advanced, and you want to specify how reliable it is. And you can be specific about that. Just ask Notebook alum to only use sources that meet your criteria because look, Notebook alm isn't a tool that reads your mind. It's only as good as the inputs you give it. And once you start controlling the type of sources, for example, like red, this is official docs or maybe videos, everything gets way clearer. You are not just collecting information, you are shaping how you learn the topic and how Notebook alum will be explaining what you need. So if you are relying on Notebook alum's research, don't just search, guide it first. Guided to get better resources, the sources you need the sources that will really help you in your life. Okay? How? Most people don't realize this, I think, but in Notebook alum, right here, you can actually control where it pulls and fall from. Like, instead of just typing here, how does the YouTube algorithm work? You can tell it what kind of sources you want, and I will show you that changes everything. Here is how I would approach it if I was learning about the YouTube algorithm. The first option only show red it phrase. Redit is gold for this. You will find creatures literally saying stuff like my view staked after I changed this one thing. Oh, this is what finally worked for me on YouTube. No polished girt, just people real creatures sharing what actually happened and what worked for them. It's great when you are trying to feel how the algorithm behaves in practice for real content creators on YouTube. You can get so much insight knowledge from reading from doing research on edit. The second option, only show YouTube videos. This one is a little bit obvious but still underrated. You get people breaking it down visually, showing examples, thumbnails, retention graphs, all that. Also nice because in our case, we are literally learning about YouTube on YouTube, so we can specify we only want to rely on YouTube videos. The third option I really like only official or primary sources like the official YouTube creator blog, Google Docs, PDFs because this is where you go when you want fats, not just opinions, stuff like how ranking actually works, what metrics, meds, watch time, CTR retention. So when you need official and very proven facts from the official sources, and the fourth option only high quality industry sources, case studies, marketing blogs. So this is more like, how do people who treat YouTube seriously think about it? And specifying it like this, you will see breakdowns of strategies, why certain channels grow, how people test content, stuff like that. Let's begin more. Okay, how do I actually win this content? And of course, you can also mix all of these sauces once you create them because as I've already told you, read it gives you raw experience. YouTube gives you explanations. Official sauces give you trist and, you know, just first hand information and industry stuffs gives you strategy. So you can basically we can basically build our own little YouTube algorithm, brain, inside Notebook alum, not just rely on random Internet stuff. What's important is that every source we add becomes part of our knowledge base for that specific topic. Can we add a PDF you have on your computer? Of course, you can. Let's say you have a few PDFs on your laptop, for example, eBooks or notes from the webina by Sone Smart. You can absolutely add entire files to your knowledge base, even if the files are very big. To show you how this works in practice, I have some lecture notes on my drive about the YouTube algorithm, so I'm going to upload that. And let's look at how simple this workflow is for adding sources from your computer. And now this PDF file is audited right here and selected. And this is what I love about Notebook LM. It supports so many different file types. The as are the basic option, but you can also add photos, images, and even voice files. And, yeah, I think voice files are very helpful very often. You can download the Notebook alum up on your phone. For example, record a conversation with someone smart or record yourself talking through what you know about the topic. And if you have a notebook, ALM up and you open your voice memo recorder, from there, you can use any voice memo. So look, there should be a share option here and you choose share it to Notebook alum. Then you need to select which notebook you want to upload that recording too. Let's say I want to add my recording to this notebook so I click on it. And then once it uploads, you can work with that file from your computer. You obviously don't have to stay on your phone and for me, that workflow is just more convenient than sending audio files to my computer first and then adding them to Notebook alum. But that's very subjective. That's just the way I do. I prepare to do this process, and with the Notebook alum app, you can add your voice recording directly from your phone to your Notebook alum. And we can also add something from your Google Drive. For example, I'm going to add this file that I prepared a while ago, and that might be useful for this topic. Thanks to Ach text option, you can think like the content from an email, copied text from your flag messages or from any other messenger or any other communication tool, whatever you think is useful for that topic, for your topic. And like I told you before, this option is also super convenient, super helpful when you want to copy the content of an article, you pay for through a subscription, for example, but Google's model can access it because it's behind a paywall. For example, from the New York Times or any paige sub stack you pay for. Okay, right here, look, Google can't access to that file because it's behind a payroll. But you are the one paying for the subscriptions. So obviously, you can see the article, which means you can work around the fact that Notebook m can't use that source directly. Just copy the article and edit here using the art text option. That's the simplest work around, and it's very helpful. So now we have our sources, we feel like this is enough for the moment, and we can move on to actually learning from them. 6. Configure Personality and Customize Settings (Examples and Pro Use Cases): Customized personality and customized settings, examples and price cases. Now we move to the middle section, the central panel chat to start actually digesting and working with the information from our sources. So let's select the sources we want to use. In my case, let's say we want to use everything except this one, and we want to ask a question, how do I start creating on YouTube? So the algorithm favors me from the beginning. And let's see what it comes up with. As you can see, we are getting a detailed and specific answer based only on our sauces, which makes it so much more reliable. So how does it work right here? As you add materials, Notebook alum analyzes them and starts suggesting relevant questions. Do you see? Here we can see the suggestions from Notebook alum. For example, after uploading my sources about YouTube algorithm, it suggests questions and topics based on those materials. This time, it's suggesting these questions. Previously, I get questions like why some video suddenly take off, what actually impact reach or how craters row from zero. Of course, you can also ask anything, anything that's on your mind. Or type in a more traditional search query. And Notebook alum uses natural language processing to understand your documents and your sources. What it means? What does it mean in practice for you? It means that when you ask a question, it doesn't just look for keywords. It understands what you mean. For example, if I ask about why some channel suddenly lose views, I don't have to mention specific creatures on exact situations. Notebook alum gets the context and finds the relevant insights. These kinds of exploratory searches are much more powerful than old school keyword searches, I think, which only work if a specific phrase appears in your document. So it's very flexible, and you can also ask for something abstract, and it will find answers. To your question and your sources, even if the answer isn't so straightforward from the sources. So, absolutely, with Notebook alum, you can also ask more abstract questions like what patterns lead to viral growth, what mistakes her performance, or what signals the algorithm actually responds to. And this is an important question. Will we get the same results and the same tone every time? No. No if we customize the AI's personality inside our notebook lam. This is a really cool feature that makes it much easier to process and understand information because we all prefer something different. We all prefer different tone and different type of explanations because I think we all have our favorite learning patterns and our brains are a little bit different. Our brains are used to different kind of learning. So here, in this puddle, as you can see right now, there are two things we can configure ourselves. This is such a really cool feature that makes it so much easier to process and understand information. Here, in this panel, as you can see right now, there are two things we can configure ourselves. The first one is the final conversational goal, style or role. There is this default setting, and there's also a learning guide mode. But honestly, it's the best idea to experiment with the custom prompt because that's how you get the most tailored and useful results. So click the configure Notebook icon to assign a role to Notebook LLMs AI. For example, you can say, act like a friendly teacher or be a skeptical lawyer. As you can see, you can type a custom instruction directly here. You can also clearly define your goal. So tell Notebook alms what you actually want to get out of this notebook. What's the goal? This is my list of favorite instructions that I love using in practice, and I think you will find them pretty useful, too. That's why I'm sharing them. For example, yeah, the list is pretty long, but I love them. So you have to experiment with these. I think they are changing the results so much. I will show you in a second. So, for example, act like someone obsessed with leveling up their life, focus on practical solutions, clear decisions, and always ask, what would a founder do with this? Be critical and analytical. Question assumptions and point out what might not work. This is one of the longest instructions, but as a guest, you have so much to choose from. So choose the ones that are useful for you, for your purposes, for your goal. And now I will show you the difference with four different instructions because the way the results change is honestly pretty wild. I will also give you a list of additional ideas and use cases that I think might be helpful for you. So first, we will use these instructions as the first one. Think like YouTube strategies. Focus on growth positioning and what actually works in practice. And then we will move on to this instruction, and these two will be the next ones. They are also very practical, not only in today's project, the topic I'm explaining during the course, so our YouTube algorithm, but also in your case, in your goals, you can really tailor those instructions to your needs. And just as a quick reminder to enter these custom instructions and change the way notebook alum responds, we need to click this button here, this icon, and this is where we will type our instructions. But before I do that, I want to show you what kind of answer we got to this question when everything is set to default, okay? So our question is, where should I start if I want the YouTube algorithm to favor my account from the beginning? So right now, everything is default. I haven't changed anything. All sources are selected here. We want to use all of them, and I'm asking my question based on 14 sources. And I will show you what these answers looks like with this default setting, what the tone is like, the structure, everything. Just as a reminder, next to every claim, next to every piece of information, we have citations. That means notebook alum shows us exactly where it got that from, which sauce and even which part of that sauce. In this case, it used a YouTube transcript from one of the videos we use as a source, you can always click in and check exactly where the information is coming from. This is very helpful. And remember, also, remember, notebook alum works in a pretty closed system, meaning it only uses the sources we've selected at that moment. And that's what makes it such a trustworthy tool. So let's take a look. This is what the answer looks like when everything is default without any customization and tells us it tells us everything. But the tone is very general, very polite, very safe. So let's change it. Now let's use the same question. But first, we will customize things. We will start with this instruction. Think like YouTube strategy focused on growth positioning and what actually works in practice. We type that in here. And as you can see, we can also choose the response length and let's leave it on default for now. We click Save and now let's see how the tone changes. Yeah, see. Technically, it's saying similar things, but in a different language, a different style, and that's the key. We can adjust this to much how we prefer to consume information, what style feels best to us and what fits the topic. Based on that, we can write custom instructions that change the tone, the structure, and what notebook focuses on in its answers. Alright, so now let me show you another example. This time we will use this instruction. I'd like someone who hates confusion, clarity, clarify everything and removes ambiguity. So we change our instruction, click safe and ask the same question again. I'm keeping the same question so you can clearly see the difference. If I change the question every time, it wouldn't be so easy to compare. So I think that's the best option for you to just compare everything. And now, as you can see, the answer is much more direct and specific, just like we asked. Okay. So now let's change the instruction again. So this time we are using this prompt. Act like a content strategist. Turn insights into ideas, angles, and formats I can publish. We paste it in and again, the same question. Now you can see we are getting very concrete suggestions about what to publish because that's exactly what we call it to focus on. So this is really imprint. You always need to ask yourself, what do I want to focus on? What do I need? And then clarify and clearly define that in your instruction right here. So that's how you get much more precise, actually useful answers. And now the last example I want to show you with this question, this is the instruction we are using. Act like a high performance founder, focus on leveling up every area of life, explain everything in a practical way, connect ideas to real world execution, and always ask what would I actually do with this today and end with clear next steps. And this one is much longer. Let's see how it handles it, and let's keep the same question again. Yes, I was tempted to use a different one, but, you know, it's much easier to compare when it's the same question. We'll use different ones later because this is a big and important topic. And again, the core ideas are similar because we are using the same sources. But how do we know it actually followed our instruction? Because we told it to end with clear next steps. If you look here, that's exactly how it ends. So we have a 100% confirmation that it followed our instruction. It always reads these instructions. So if you click Save, they will always be taken into account. So even though it's using the same sources every time, it changes how it presents the information. And that's exactly what I wanted to show you how important that configuration is and how much impact the custom instructions have. I've also shared a lot of other example, instructions with you earlier because at the end of the day, you need to tailor this to yourself. You know your needs, your work. Your interest best. So you can adjust those instructions to fit you and to fit you perfectly. Only you can do this. But I really wanted to give you inspiration so you can build your own best possible setup. And you might want to ask, what's the goal of this? And of course, it is to get clear to the point answers, knowledge that's easy to absorb for you and your needs and summaries, but only from sources you can actually trust. And as I've already tad you, this is where Notebook alum is so much better than ChaWPT or GM andi. And yes, notebook Mtot is so powerful. As I've shown you, you can tell it to act like an expert, a professor, or even the author of a book and then have an actual conversation based on your sources. The key thing to remember is the quality of your learning depends on the quality of your sources. So always remember about that. Always choose good sources. And another protip. Let's say you want to learn a completely new topic, and there are three main experts in the field. Each of them has books, interviews, maybe lectures on YouTube, and I'd create a separate notebook for each expert. Listen, I'd create a separate separate notebook for each expert and prompt the chat to act like that specific person. To make the process more fun and more practical and easier for your brain. And then I'd basically talk to each expert. You can stop there. You can take it further, and you can create a new notebook, combine all the sources, and then prompted to act like a professor teaching from those materials or even act like a debate moderator, where the experts discuss and challenge each other. So that's the way I love to use it, and you can use it, too, because that's what Notebook AMS is best atg. So its strength lies exactly there. 7. The 7 Power-User Tips & The Mistakes Everyone Makes: The seven power user tips and the mistakes everyone makes. Okay, before we go any further, I want to share some floor tips on how to get the most out of this and how to avoid letting os creep into your Notebook alum system. I will also remind you of a few things that are really, really too easy to forget. And because of that, most people do forget once they study using Notebook m, and I really don't want it to happen to you. So you can save the most useful bits that Notebook um gives you into notes. Just like this. So you never lose them and always have them at hand. So click safe to note on any AI response you like. It moves that insight into your studio panel right here for later. And look, let me show you a little bit slower how it works. For example, I really like this insight. I think it's one of the most important ones. So I click here, Save to note to keep the answer to this question for later. And there it is right here in the studio panel. What's important is that from here, if I click on this note, I can also turn it into a source so I can use it in my future work. Another important thing, don't forget to toggle sources because most people leave all, for example, 50 sources checked and then wonder why the answer is so broad, so general. So use those check boxes next to your files and sources. If you only want to talk to one specific PDF and check the rest to get laser focused answers. It's super helpful, and I'm really, really tired of seeing that people I know and people I talk to never use this. They always keep all sources selected like this. But if notebook alum is this smart and lets you work this way and choose your sauces, why not actually use it? So let's say I want to answer a question like, how often should I post at the beginning? Does posting frequency even metter? But I only want this answer to be based on this one specific YouTube video. This one. I remember this creator talked about it in that video, but I don't want to watch the whole thing and figure it out myself. I don't have time for that today. So will Notebook um give me an answer, and will it be reliable? Yes, because it has access to the transcript of that video. And look at your desk. It pulled the exact information so cleanly. Now I've got a laser focused answer based only on that one source, that one video. So also, as I've already told you, but this is just a friendly reminder because that's too easy to forget. Don't give up if the sauce won't upload or it's blocked. Remember about your manual workaround. So if the website is blocked or a file won't upload, just copy paste the text directly into a new source and add text. Also, this is very important to build helpful and manageable systems, rename everything. This is the one I always skipped at the beginning, but yeah, once I change that, I have to tell you it really made a difference. So rename everything. Like with the most things in life, befall names are usually not so useful. So rename them. So they actually reflect why they meter to your project. Especially in more complex projects where you have a lot of sources, you will thank yourself later when you come back to that notebook after some time, you want to see manageable system right here, not cast Also of course, there are some limits right now, but there is this consolidation trick. If you hit the 50 source limit, have the AI summarize ten of them, save that as one new node, convey that to a source and delete the original ten to free up space, so you can use more sources. That's a workaround that really works. And of course, use the mobile app because you can also use it to clip interesting stuff you find while scrolling on your phone directly to your notebook directly to your notebook, yeah. And this is also important. Share your knowledge base because why should only we benefit from the useful, well organized things we create? And look, you can share an entire notebook via a link so others can explore and chat with you curated research. And Notebook alum, now also let's you collaborate just like in Google Docs. You can invite people as viewers or as editors. You can give them full access to your sources and notes. Oh limit it. Limit it to just the search chat interface. And you can also publish your notebooks publicly. It's also very helpful because I don't know about you, but I love seeing other people's notebooks. It's a little bit like seeing their workflow and a little bit seeing their diary kind of it's also always very interesting and exciting. And now before we move on to my favorite, even more practical part, let's also talk about the mistakes everyone make. So before we jump into the next part, there are a few simple mistakes we need to talk about. They might seem small almost obvious, but they can seriously limit how much you get out of Nodwuk ALM. And I see people make them all the time. So let's quickly go through them. So you don't fall into the same trap and you can actually use this tool to its full potential. The first mistake is, of course, source overload. Listen, this is very, very important. I can't stress this enough. Don't dump unrelated files into one notebook. It destroys the AI's intelligence, one topic, one notebook. This is the rule. Seriously. This is the number one mistake. People get excited and dump 50 unrelated files into one notebook. For example, then you've got your YouTube algorithm tips, your tax returns, tips, and polishing the best lasagna recipe all in one notebook. Don't do that. Never do that. Because it creates this noise for AI. It really is a problem because when you ask a question about, for example, the algorithm, AI is still looking at other sauces. It is looking at the lasagna recipe sauces and is digesting unrelated sources, and unrelated sources and other topics really destroys the quality of the answers you get. So remember about the rule, one mission, one topic, one notebook. Each notebook should center around a single topic single project or one hypothesis. So keep your lanes clean. If you are researching YouTube growth, keep it 1% YouTube. One notebook for one topic, okay, always. And the other mistake I also witness pretty often is the creativity gap mistake. I would call it that way because notebook alum is amazing. As you already know, I really love this s, but you have to remember Notebook alum is ritually a researcher, not a creative writer. It's hyper literal and diligent. Use it for the prep work, not the final creative leap most of the time. And in the next chapters, I will also show you business and creative use cases of notebook M. But we can never forget how it works and how it processes data. You have to remember this is not a chatbot itself. It's designed for other purposes. It's not the chat ball like HoJPT or Gemini chatbot because I love this tool, but it's not a poet. Notebook AAM's personality is yeah, it's a researcher. It's designed to stay inside the box of your documents and your sources. So if you ask it to write a viral, Hillary's script from scratch, it's probably going to be a bit the Re. Notebook LMS is a tool for synthetizers. It's here to help you get Smart fast. So don't turn it into a messy junk drawer, and don't expect it to do your creative work all for you. Use it to build a foundation, and now I will show you the best part. Yeah, and it's going to get exciting. 8. Studio! Package Knowledge into Something You Can Actually Use, Not Only for Learning: Studio, package knowledge into something you can actually use. Okay, as you already know, this section on the right, this whole panel is called the studio. If it doesn't show up like this on your screen, just click right here and it will expand and appear. So what do we actually use this studio for? You can think of the studio as the place where your research actually turns into something real and even more useful because if the left panel is your library and the middle panel is your conversation with an expert, the studio is your producer's desk. It's where you take all that raw information and messy notes and package them into something you can actually use, share or listen to while, for example, you are making breakfast. So how outstanding this is? And I see it that way. This is my interpretation that the left and middle panels are for understanding like customer mode, and the studio is the producer mode for creating. So when you are tired of just talking to the AI and you are ready to actually do something with your research, you head to the studio. That's where your notes get lax and start running and flying even higher. So here is the thing you need to know. The studio panel is a constant work in progress, and I mean that in the best possible way because Google is constantly developing and dropping new features in here. So the stuff we are looking at today is just the beginning or maybe not the beginning because it's been existing for quite a long time. But yeah, Google is constantly working and dropping new features. So it's growing pretty fast and getting comfortable with it now is going to put you miles ahead of everyone else. Because let's be real, most people use this studio in a really very basic, basic way. If you want to actually get amazing results and be more productive, much more productive than the average user, you've got to be a bit more strategic. And within the next minutes, I will explain how to take it to the next level. But first, let me get you even more excited and tell you why this studio is a toll game changer. Okay? In most viral feature, the deep dive audio Oh, baby. This is the feature that's currently breaking the Internet. You click One button, and Notebook M generates a full blown podcast for you. Q AI hosts, sit down and actually banter about your sources, just like this. Listen for a minute. Welcome to the debate. I mean, imagine for a moment, walking into a massive library, but this isn't a normal library. The shelves are moving. Exactly. As you wander down the aisle, the bookshelves actually physically shift around you. The library is constantly watching where your eyes linger. Right? It begins a maze of your own creation. Yes, surrounded only by the echos of your own thoughts, and that is the exact diagnostic landscape we have to navigate today when we look at modern content platforms. We're exploring the underlying mechanics of deep learning recommender systems. Specifically looking at recent surveys on multitask deep recommender systems or MTDRS. Right. The central question is, are these massive neural network architectures inherently driving us toward algorithmic radicalization by, well, mathematically, optimizing for outrage. Or are they simply highly sophisticated mirrors neutrally reflecting our own pre existing human behaviors and desires? I'll be taking the position that the optimization for attention, combined with deep learnings, non linear pattern matching, inherently risks group polarization. Yeah, that's the podcast about YouTube algorithm for us. And why it's amazing. Instead of reading, for example, 50 pages on YouTube algorithm, we can now hit Play and listen to the highlights while we are at the gym or stuck in traffic. It's a little bit scary how human they sound, and they actually find the hooks in your data that you might have missed. And we will discuss this feature in detail in a moment because you can also customize it to get the most out of it. But next, I actually tell you that with Notebook um, we also have content creation on autopilot because inside the studio, you can instantly turn the sources into actual outputs like reports, data tables, or even slide decks and beautiful presentations. So instead of staring at your notes and thinking, Okay, okay, what do I do with all of this? Notebook alum just does that step for you. You can take everything we've gathered, everything you've gathered and turn it into something structured and usable. In seconds. And you might want to ask, Okay, but how to actually generate useful content with Nodebook M. And here's the best part, I think. It's super simple. You can add custom instructions to almost any format you want Noebook M to generate for you because you see this little I can right here this arrow. When you click on it, you can add custom instructions. You can literally say things like, think like a YouTube who's working on their script, create a content plan based on these sources, create engaging content. I can turn into a Linked in post, break everything into bullet points. Because everything is based on your sources, the output is grounded, structured, and actually useful, not random or generic as it sometimes is with, for example, child GPT. You can also refine the output step by step, ask for different formats or generate multiple versions to decide which one you like best. And now, are you ready to learn all the features one by one together with my tips and practical use cases? I think you are, so let's do this. 9. Audio Overview. Listen to Your Podcast: Audio overview. Listen to your podcast. This is very exciting because the studio panel can turn your notes into AI overview, and this means it's a podcast where two AI hosts talk about your notes and sources, and these podcasts sound really really interesting and it's really involving. As I already told you, this is the feature that's currently breaking the Internet because you click a button and suddenly you have two AI host discussing your boring notes like they're the hottest gossip on a top tier podcast. And now you can learn your own material while doing the dishes or while stuck in the traffic. It's productive, and I think it's productive for people who hate sitting still. But most people don't realize that before you hit that generate button right here, you can give the AI specific instructions because most people just head over here, click the button, let Notebook alum, spit out a podcast right away. And of course, you can do that, but what they are missing is that you can actually tweak how this works. If you click on this little arrow icon right here, it opens up your configuration settings. The, this is where you can really make this podcast your own and tailor it to your needs. And check this out. You got a few different formats to choose from. And it's definitely worth playing around with these and comparing how they handle your specific topic to see which one gives you the best results because it, of course, depends on the topic. And thanks to that, we have a few different ways to flavor your audio overview. It's not just about two people chatting in this AI podcast anymore. It's about how they chat. So which formats to use and when here's what I think. This one, the Deep Dive is the classic, and this is the default setting, and it's perfect for when you when you just want to get the big picture. So we use this when you have, for example, a massive 50 page PDF and lots of resources, and you just want the highlights while you are, for example, walking the dog. It's like two smart friends summarizing a book for you. It's equational, easy to follow and great for this general overview of your topic. Then we have the critique, and it's a little bit like the reality check. This is my favorite at the moment because instead of just agreeing with everything in your notes, the host actually challenge the ideas. So use this one you are working on, for example, controversial topic, more controversial topic. You want to hear the holes and your logic before someone else finds them because it's a bit more of a debate, and I think it's the ultimate way to stress test your thinking. And then we have the brief, and it's like it's a bit like the executive summary because if the deep dime is a conversation, the breathing is a report. So use this when you are short on time and you just need the facts and the numbers and so what? Because, like, it's punchy, it's direct, professional, let's bouncer, more bottom line, it's what you listen to 5 minutes before you walk into a big presentation, for example, and then we have the debate. And this is the one people are obsessed with the most right now, I think, because instead of just agreeing with everything, the host actually go back and forth. So it's really very, very, you know, almost addictive to listen to this. So use this when you have a controversial or very complex topic, and you want to hear both sides of the kind because it's perfect for spotting potential risk in your plan, for example, because one host might play devil's advocate. It's a high energy exchange that forces you to think more critically about your own notes. And default setting is deep dive, but it's worth jumping in here to toggle it based on what you actually need right now because honestly, I think the debate is probably the most useful mode at the moment. So I'm going to show you exactly how that sounds in practice with our YouTube algorithm example in just a second. And also, here is the best part. You can actually tell the host what to focus on in their discussion. So for our Tu project, we are not just going to let them ramble. We are going to tell them focus specifically on the monetization strategies in these transcripts. Make it sound like a heated debate between a skeptic and an optimist. Alright, first, I'm going to play the generic version for you so you can compare them. And this is the one I generated earlier without touching any of the custom settings. So it's the default setting. And let's take a listen to this one first so you can hear so you can hear for yourself just how much of a difference the customizations actually make. So now let's take a listen to the defollowed podcast without any instructions. Let's play it. If you spend really any time watching creators online right now, you have probably noticed a pretty massive theme. Everyone is completely panicking. Oh, I absolutely panic at you. You scroll through your feed, and your favorite video creators are constantly claiming that, you know, their views are inexplicably down, their channels are dying, and the machine that runs it all is just fundamentally broken. Like, they are convinced something deeply malicious is going on behind the scenes. It is a massive wave of anxiety across the Internet right now. I mean, it's everywhere. But what is really fascinating is how entirely disconnected that creator panic is from the actual mathematical reality of what is happening you know, under the hood. Which is exactly what we are unpacking today. So welcome to this Deep Dive, everyone. Our mission today is to pull back the curtain on the algorithm, specifically focusing on massive video and social platforms like YouTube. Because we need to separate the frantic Internet rumors from the actual literal engineering. Exactly. And to do that, we've got a brilliant stack of sources to pull from today. We're talking official engineering blogs, academic surveys on deep neural networks, leaked creator strategies, wikipedia breakdowns on algorithmic radicalization, just a ton of stuff. A really good stack. It is. We are going to figure out what the machine actually wants, how people are desperately trying to hack it. And well, the societal consequences of a machine designed purely to capture your attention. So Okay. And now let's take a listen to the podcast with our custom settings, these settings, the custom instructions, I'm showing you this as just as a reminder and pay close attention to the vibe of the conversation and how they are actually dropping the facts this time because, yeah, it's going to be a very visible difference. Welcome to the debate. When you walk into a Las Vegas casino, the architecture is, well, it's entirely deliberate. There are no clocks on the walls, no windows to the outside world, and the layout is this labyrinth designed to make you lose your sense of direction. Right, it's a completely closed loop. Exactly. The singular goal is to keep you at the tables, pulling the lever completely detached from the passage of time. The environment is, you know, perfectly optimized to extract as much time and capital from you as physically possible. Yeah, exactly. But contrast that with, say, sitting down at a Michelin star restaurant. The pacing of the meal, the ambient lighting, the attentiveness of the staff. It is also highly engineered to keep you in your seat for hours. Sure. Yet we don't view the restaurant as a predatory trap, right? We view it as an environment optimized for deep, genuine satisfaction. Well, most of us do. Right. So today, we are exploring the really complex relationship between platform monetization strategies and user engagement metrics. Specifically, we're looking at how measurements like watch time and dwell time dictate the ad revenue models of the world's largest content platforms. Yeah, and the central question we really need to unpack here is whether the shift toward deep engagement metrics, these things platforms like to call valued watch time whether that actually aligns their ad revenue models with genuine user satisfaction, or, you know, if it merely incentivizes more sophisticated algorithmic manipulation, just to maximize profit. I take the optimistic view here. As you can hear, instead of a boring summary, you get a high energy debate that actually makes you think, but it doesn't stop there. Oh, no, not at all. Have you heard about the interactive mode in Notebook M Audio O review yet? I think it's easily one of the coolest things about this feature. So think of it like this. Instead of just sitting back and listening to those AI hosts chat about your notes, you're basically stepping into the virtual recording booth wisdom. Wisdom, yeah. It turns a regular podcast into a dynamic two way conversation where you can actually steer the sheep and tell them what to do. But in real time. For now, you can use this feature only when you are using the podcast generating mode. For now, that's actually the biggest benefit of using the default one because with it, you can interrupt the podcast at any point. You can just click here and talk to the host in real time, just like this. Yeah, you scroll through your feed, and your favorite video creators are constantly claiming that, you know, their views are inexplicably down, their channel dying, and the machine that runs it all is just fundamentally broken. Like, they are convinced something deeply malicious is going on behind the scenes. It is a massive wave of anxiety across the Internet right now. I mean, it's everywhere. Oh, hey, I think our listeners got something to say. Okay. Oh, go for it. Okay, so I wanted to ask tell us and tell the audience what new creators should do to make the algorithm favor their content. That is such a good question. Oh, that is the million dollar question, actually. It perfectly relates to this panic we were just talking about. Absolutely. The short answer is stop trying to make the algorithm happy. Yeah, that is the biggest takeaway from all our sources. The algorithm does not care about you as a creator. It cares only about the viewer and their behavior. So, new creators should focus entirely on making viewers happy. Our sources say the key is actually in search engine optimization. Especially for small channels, you need to be discoverable. If you do not have subscribers, you need people searching for you. You need good titles, descriptions, and tags. Think about things like answering specific questions. Or reviewing specific products related to your topic. And the other piece is clarity or miching down. So you are basically steering the ship. You can change the whole course of the podcast whenever you want, right in the middle of it. So you just have to hit play, and whenever you've got something to say, click the Join button and use your microphone to ask you a question or give a comment, for example, like, give me a deeper look at the best strategy of YouTube growth. And yeah, the host will acknowledge you answer using your sources, and then slide right back into the podcast flow. So absolutely, you can interrupt them mid sentence to ask for a better analogy with them on a specific detail or just tell them to focus on a different part of your research any minute you want, because it's designed to turn passive listening into an active study session where you can alter the exacts of the discussion in real time. Also, also, also, I need to share this with you so you can get the best results possible. So here are my favorite instructions to arch to the prompt. And I highly recommend experimenting with these. And that's a change output. Yes, absolutely. That's so much. You can also specify your needs in a simple and powerful way using these instructions, these prompts. So take a screenshot and save them for later. Also, you'll find those instructions in my sources that I've already added to the cars so we can download them. 10. Audio Overview for Life, Work, Business and Marketing: Audio overview for life, work, and business. But hey, I know you might want to ask, Okay, audio overviews are really cool. It's pretty exciting to play with it one time, but what else can I actually use it for in the real world? Even if I'm long done with school and studying? And trust me, this isn't just for students. Not at all. I've got a few ideas. For you, the toll game changers, I think. Audit your own writing. So if you are writing a newsletter, maybe you are writer, maybe you run a blog or social media profile, or you just write before you hit publish or submit, drop your draft into Notebook alum. Then listen to how it explains your ideas back to you. Is honestly one of the best editing gs because when you listen to your own writing, your brain tends to to fill gaps and smooth things over. But when you hear it, when you hear it loud, those weak spots become way more obvious. If something sounds confusing, awkward, or gets skipped entirely, that's your signal, that's the feedback, that's something might be off. I think it's a super simple way to catch gaps and logic and fix your structure before anyone else sees it. Because, yeah, since your brain tends to alter, correct your own writing while you read, listening helps you catch a logical holt or pass where your structure totally falls apart. So that's really nice. I love this editing cox. You have to try it. Ill with your read later pile. Yeah, I think we all have that folder full of PDFs or full of websites or newsletters we swear we will read someday, someday in the future. But instead of going through them one by one, you can just drop them all into a single notebook. And then you know what Notebook alum will do. Notebook alum will analyze everything together and give you an overview that highlights common themes, key ideas, and even conflicting viewpoints. So instead of five separate summaries, you get one clear high level synthesis, something that would normally take hours or even days to piece together yourself. Then you can also use it for meeting prep. Because, for example, let's imagine you have a long breathing dog and barely any time before a meeting. What you do? Yeah, that's a stressful situation, I know, but you can just upload it, generate the ao and listen to it on the go. Even at the higher speed, for example, 1.5. Instead of rushing for pages and hoping something sticks, you get a clearer structured work through of the coupons, and it's like having someone guide you through what actually matters before your meeting and highlighting the real concerns, the important details, and what you should pay attention to. So you will walk into the meeting actually knowing what's going on, and you will feel much more prepared, even if you barely had any time to read anything before the meeting. Also, you can use this feature to spot inconsistencies before they become problems. And let's say you are working with multiple documents like project plans, SOPs, or internal notes. And as you probably know, small contradictions can easily slip in. But if you upload them all into one notebook, notebook M will naturally surface those inconsistencies for you. So it will literally point things out like, wait. This source says this, but this one says it the other way. So this saves you a ton of time on double checking and quality control. So I think it's pretty useful in work in business in so many daily cases. Yeah, it can save you from trouble so many times. And the best thing is that you can take it anywhere because once your audio is generated, you are not stuck using it inside the app. You can download it as, for example, MP four file and listen to it online whenever you want, for example, during the long flight, and you can also rename your file so you don't lose track of different versions, share them with your team, or adjust the playback speed, especially if you are in the rush and want to move through it just quicker. So I think it basically relocates learning to the margins of your day, like when you are cooking or walking, so you can process way more than you ever could just by sitting at the desk. 11. Video Overview in Notebook LM: Where Ideas Become Usable Systems: Video overview. Video overview. And Notebook alum is basically AI turning your notes or sources into a short video style explanation. It's kind of like having someone turn your messy research into a quick explainer video like one of those trendy explainer videos you can just watch instead of reading everything. And in my opinion, it's amazing for faster understanding and no not only for complex topics, not at all. Good for presentations or sharing ideas with others and helps you see the structure, not just read it. So let me show you because that's my favorite way to explain things to you. So we click the RO button right here to customize it, and when you are setting up a video overview, you've got some cool options to play with to match the vibe of your project. We have visual styles because you aren't stuck with one look. You can use different artistic styles to change the aesthetic, such as the whiteboard animation, great for example, explaining concepts or even a watercolor look for something more artistic and more unique. Then we have template firms because depending on how much time you have, you can choos different formats. You can generate an in depth explaining style or a shorter brief version if you just need the quick hits. Then we have video focus. Just like with the audio, you can use prompts to tell AI exactly what you care about the most. You can guide you to, for example, focus on car skills for humans or explain this like a master class to ensure the final video hits the points you actually need at the moment. So let's take a look together at the results we've got. And heads up, this might surprise you. It has voice scually when we notice how mentally exhausted we feel after a single hour of doom scrolling. When life gets heavy, we swipe to cope. Blaming social media is a convenient distraction. If the screen was the problem, curiosity wouldn't return in a new city. So it isn't getting older, and it isn't the screen. It's just an accessible way to look away from internal friction. Think about your physical surroundings when you actually use that escape hatch. Imagine you're sitting alone in a restaurant waiting for a friend to arrive or standing in a slow moving line. Within 20 seconds, a mild irritation starts in your feet. The air feels heavy. You sweat a bit, your eyes dart around the dining area, and you feel like everyone is watching you, quietly judging you for sitting there alone. This timeline graph maps our physiological reaction to that exact feeling. The red line traces a rising level of discomfort as we wait. We don't reach into our pockets because we need new information. We do it to numb ourselves. At the point of screen unlock, that tension drops to zero, bringing instant relief. If we zoom out, we see this spike and drop repeating throughout the day. We're so used to squashing awkward silences, we've forgotten how to tolerate them. By constantly eliminating every single micro moment of waiting or silence, we forget what it feels like to just exist in a room. We have accidentally trained our own brains to panic the exact second we aren't doing, moving or consuming something. That reflex to avoid friction scales up. The same way we squash boredom in a restaurant, we try to optimize our entire daily routines. As you can see, it's kind of like a presentation that one is walking you through. And I think it's super useful if you learn visually and through listening. It's clean to the point, simple, but still includes important insights. I was honestly surprised by the quality, and I bet you will be too. Okay, now let's generate a video overview for our example, the YouTube algorithm, of course, we click here. And as you can see, we have two formats to choose from explainer and brief. Explainer is more like, as you can see, a structured, comprehensive overview that connects ideas from your sources, and breath is more of a bite size overview to quickly help you grasp the core ideas. So we need to decide which one we want, something more structured and in depth or something shorter and more concise. In this case, I think I will go with the explainer. I feel like our topic, the YouTube algorithm, it will explain things better with this one. We can always compare later. We can also choose the language, but let's keep English. And here we can also choose the style. As you can see, there are quite a few styles to pick from. Depending on the topic, what you need and your personal taste, you can go with a pretty fine style or create your own custom one. And here, as you can see, you can fully describe your custom visual style. On top of that, besides defining the visual style, you can also guide the AI on what it should focus on the most. So for our topic, the YouTube algorithm, let's say, for the focus, I will paste in something I prepared earlier. Create a video overview like a strategist breaking down what actually works. Focus on key insights, real weird application, and actionable takeaways, highlight what matter most and how to use it in practice. And when it comes to the visual style, let's go with something like create a video overview with a soft pastel design, clear bullet points, and a YouTube explainer flow. Keep it visually clean, structured and easy to follow. Now, of course, since this is a video, it will take a bit longer to generate because we have to remember that compared to text, video generation takes more time because there is so much data to process. So while this is generating, let me show you a few other video overviews. I created Elga, just so you can see different styles and use cases. For example, here, I generated a video overview about why it's worth eating tomatoes. Okay, let's dive right in. Today, we're breaking down the science behind a fruit or wait, is it a vegetable? Either way, it's in pretty much every kitchen on the planet. Yep, we're talking about the tomato. And it all kicks off with this simple question from RitsRh Nutrition Forum. It's something you've probably wondered, right? Are tomatoes really all that good for you or are they just kind of there to make salads and sandwiches a little less dry well, the short answer is a huge, definite yes. But this is the interesting part. The reason why they're so good for you is way cooler than you might think. It's not just about the vitamins, and honestly, there's a pretty big twist coming up. So here's the deal. Yeah, tomatoes have got vitamin C, they've got potassium, all good stuff. But there's one special compound that's doing almost all of the heavy lifting. It's that makes a tomato look well, like a tomato. Let's meet the hero of our story like opine. This definition from a really deep dive on RedtsR Immortalist explains it perfectly. It's the antioxidant that gives tomatoes and other things like watermelon that brilliant red color, but it's so much more than just a pretty color. It's a protector. Okay, so it's a powerful antioxidant. We hear that word all the time, right? But what does that actually mean in the real world for your body? What are the practical benefits of getting more of this stuff in your diet? Well, the research, a lot of which gets kicked around in forums like R slash Imortalists and R slash science, really zeroes in on these four key areas. We're talking about everything from your heart all the way to your lungs. Ligopine seems to be playing a major protective role. And what's really wild here is the scale of these benefits. I mean, look at these numbers. One long term study that was being discussed showed men with the most gopine in their system had an almost 50% lower risk of cardiovascular disease. Others found up to a 35% lower risk for prostate cancer. These are not small changes. For your skin, it's kind of like an internal shield. Studies have found that eating tomato products every day for a few months actually makes your skin less likely to get red from UV light. Now, let's be super clear. This is not a replacement for sunscreen, not at all. But just think of it as giving your skin a little extra armor from the inside out. This one is just fascinating. A thread in science was highlighting research that showed a diet full of tomatoes might actually help restore lung function in people who used to smoke. And it could even slow down the natural decline in lung function that happens to all of us as we get older. Pretty amazing, right? Okay, so if tomatoes are this incredible super food, why do so many people just not like them? I mean, a lot of people have a really strong aversion, and that brings us to the great tomato debate. I mean, you got to love the honesty here. This user on R slash Casual Conversation just perfectly summed up how a lot of people feel. A cold wet sadness. It just paints such a vivid picture, doesn't it? And, yep, here's the other big complaint. Another user nails the texture issue. This slimy goo is for everyone. Thing. The big reveal. The bit you cook it, you break down those walls. All that goodness. Alright, so with all this new, tomato paste is the absolute king. Sun dried tomatoes and cl. This is maybe we should all have a little more appreciation for that can of tomato paste. And now the well about eating avocados. Avocado is my favorite breakfast ingredients, but my family and friends don't really agree. So I made this for them. Here you can see two different styles side by side. So this is the first one. It looks really, really good in my humble opinion. And yeah, this is the second style. And now let's quickly go for a few more examples. I garret it year, while we wait for our current video. Okay, as you can see, they can really be very different from each other. But now let's take a look at the one Npogalum generated for our project about YouTube algorithm. Have you ever sat down to watch just one? YouTube video. And then, like an hour later, you kind of snap out of it and realize you're deep in a sea of contents you never, ever meant to find. Yeah, you are not alone. The YouTube recommendation system is without a doubt, one of the most powerful forces shaping what billions of us see and think every single day. But how does it actually work? Is it this mysterious, unknowable black box? Or is there a blueprint we can actually understand? Okay, let's get into it. Right. This is the big kind of scary question that hangs over the whole platform, isn't it? The fear that this powerful algorithm isn't just showing you cat videos you might like, but is actively nudging you click by click toward more and more extreme stuff. It's a really serious concern, but is it actually what's happening? To really get to the bottom of this, we first have to talk about the idea at the very heart of this fear, the so called algorithmic rabbit hole. You know, this idea that the platform itself can lead you down a path you never intended to walk. And that brings us to the main theory here, algorithmic radicalization. The basic idea is that because these systems are built to do one thing, keep you watching for as long as possible, they learn that extreme or polarizing content can be Well, really good at keeping you hooked. The fear is that the system, just by trying to do its job could accidentally steer you towards the fringes. Now, this whole idea doesn't just pop up out of nowhere. It's built on a few key concepts. You've probably heard of a filter bubble, right? It's basically your own personal Internet, where the algorithm only shows you things it thinks you'll like. Then you've got an echo chamber, which is when you're only hearing from people who already agree with you, so your beliefs just get stronger. And when you put those two together, you can end up with group polarization where people in that bubble actually become more extreme over time. Look, this isn't just some wild theory from people on the outside. This quote is from a leaked memo inside Facebook. It shows that the platforms themselves know their systems have a bias. They're built to optimize for engagement. And as the memo said, sometimes the most divisive incendiary stuff keeps people engaged the longest, so the algorithm can end up promoting it. Okay. As you can see, everything comes down to custom instructions or the building styles which also work really well. Also, here I'm showing you a few example instructions you can test on your own topics. They are great for experimenting and can give you really very creative results. So feel free to take screenshots, save them, come back to them later. They can be super useful. I will also add them to course material so you don't have to rewrite everything yourself. I know that can be really annoying. So you will find all of these in the course resources. 12. Reports, but Make Them Useful: Reports. Okay, reports are basically your structures, no bullshit summary of everything inside your notebook. So instead of digging for sources, notes, and charts, you can just generate a reput and get a clean, organized breakdown of what actually matters. And it pulls everything together into one place, key insides, main themes, important takeaways. It's like we are telling Notebook alone give me the full picture, but make it clear and structures. And you might want to ask, when is this useful? Because it sounds cool, but isn't it boring? No, I think there are many cases where reports are super useful. For example, reports are perfect for you when a quick overview of a topic, you need to prepare something for work or client wants to turn research into something short and sweet. It's really good when you feel like your notebook is getting messy. And what's really amazing is that it's not just a random summary. It's based only on your sources. You have to remember about it, so it's grounded, consistent and reliable. And it saves you. I can save you a ton of time because instead of manually connecting everything, Notable LM does that for you. So that's super powerful, especially when you are working on bigger topics or projects. And as you can see, we can choose from a few different formats. There is also this option create your own where you can write your own custom prompt and define the structure you want, define your goal, define what you want this report you have inside. Then we have options like breathing doc, study guide, blogpost and also suggested formats. This is very called. They are tailored specifically to your topic and to your research. So you will see different options here. You can sometimes you can see different options right here in every notebook you have. In every project you created in your Notebook LM. Here is a blog post. As you can see, it's nicely structured. There is even a question at the end, and it's written with SEO in mind. And the second report we generated is a study guide with answers. And here everything is just presented in a different format than flashcards or quiz, more like a compact file with the most important things, I think is really helpful. But if you like this, I think you will find the new format, the next format mind blowing. So let me show you. 13. Connecting the Dots with Mind Maps: Connecting the dots with mind maps. This is a favorite for people who hate walls of text, including me because the studio can generate a visual mind map of your project, of your research. That way you can visualize connections, connections and contradictions between themes and ideas and facts. And look, it shows you how your ideas connect. You can see, for example, here, how audience retention links to thumbnail design visually. So if one part looks interesting, you can click it and start a whole new chart just about that specific subtopic. I will also show you the full spectrum of possibilities of this feature in a moment. And mindmaps are great. They are designed to make the information stick to your brain right here much quicker. And this is one of the few firms where at the moment, you can add a custom prompt, just to let you know, so you aren't surprised why we don't have this icon right here for now. Maybe it will change. For example, tomorrow, as the Mathis Law states that all the changes, all the updates always happen one day after I launch the car. But as you can see here on AI Mind map, it does a great job of connecting facts. If you click on some of those sections, for example, one of the core concepts like well time, it will take you to a chart and give you even a deeper explanation. While imprint thing, click on these arrows to expand the structure. If there are more arrows, it means the mind map has another branch like this. So, yeah, I don't know about you, but I really love. It really helps me understand the topic so much better. I think it really helps you connect the dots. 14. Using Flashcards and Quizzes Without Wasting Your Time: Flashcards and quizzes. Yeah, this is exciting as well, because I think that's an amazing way to learn and gather and remember information so much faster. So when learning something new create flashcards or quizzes to test yourself. And this can be really fun. We can turn leveling up, earn leveling up to fun. So describe right here, you can describe your level of understanding. For example, I'm new to this or I'm a professional in this field, but I'm new to this framework. So choose whether you want a small or large number of questions, and you can also specify concepts. You want the quiz of flashcards to focus on. You can also ask Notebook LM to focus on a particular source like a certain link, PDF or video you have in your sources, and this actually tests your understanding instead of just letting you possibly read or listen. And look, linebp are designed to make the information stick in your brain faster. But if you want to test yourself and learn in practice, this is the option for you, flashcards and quizzes because do you think you actually understand how the al YouTube algorithm works this year? Let's check this and hit the quiz button. And with funny, it will grill you on your own hose to make sure you're not just skimming. So for me, it's the ultimate way to make sure the knowledge actually sticks, and the ultimate way to make sure something stays here. So, yes, I really I'm such an advocate for this. Flashcards a quizzes are such a great way to test yourself. So I love this feature. I hope you will, too. All right. Now I will show you the flashcards, as you can see, flashcards work in a pretty standard way. On the front side, you see a question, then you answer it in your head or outload and after you click to reveal the answer, then you mark whether you got it right or maybe not this time. Let's say we got it right, so we move on, and we got another question. As you can see, generated 70 flashcards here. Let's say we knew this one too, and we just click for using the arrows. Of course, we can jump between them. We don't have to go in order. We can be rebels, and that's basically how it works. If you click on this little if you click on this little arrow next to the flashcards, like I mentioned earlier, you can choose the level of difficulty and the number of cards. You can also guide it on one of the flashcards should focus on what topics or any specific requirements you have. For example, they should be short. They should focus on a specific concept or only use one selected sources from all your sources on the left. Here I chose medium level of difficulty and a standard number of cards, but you can adjust it however you want. Fewer cards easier level or more difficult. You can fully customize it to your needs. And now let me show you the quiz. As you can see, here we have ten questions and multiple answer options. Need to choose the correct answer, not guess randomly, but actually based on what you've learned and on the previous part of the process, you can also use a hint, which is often really helpful. Okay. Okay. Let's say we pick the wrong answer. I will explain why is wrong and show you the correct one. So it's very interactive, very smart quiz. Honestly, when I was studying, for example, both in university and before, I would have loved to have something like this that creates quizzes automatically. And as you can see, that's how it works. When it comes to quizzes, you can also customize them just like flashcards. You can specify what you want to focus on. What you are preparing for, which topics it should prioritize, and which sources it should use. You can also choose the difficulty level and number of questions. You can't set an exact number, like, for example, 15 or 23. You just choose a general preference, fewer standard or more. And now to 15. Infographics That Save You Time (and Brainpower): For graphics. Okay, okay. Infographics are really exciting. And I think they are one of my favorite features at the moment because instead of reading for text, you get a visual summary of the most important ideas, and it's not only the representation of the ideas, you also have those little visuals that are really cute. And yeah, it makes it easier to remember everything. So you can use them to simplify complex topics, present key insight visually, or just understand things faster. It's perfect when you are like, Okay, I get it, but I want to see it. Honestly, they are not just useful for learning. You can also use them for content presentations or sharing insights with others. Yes, I love this feature, and I think you will love two. So let's take a look. All right. Now let's move on to our infographics. As you can see infographics are also a format you can customize quite a lot. You have many options to choose from and let me show you if you are generated for our topic. And here are different styles, and this is one of them. Of course, you can download them, and here is another style. This one was created using a customized fraction, where I specify the colors and the style, and I think it turned out really nicely. And here's another one, again, created with a custom prompt where I defined the colors and visual direction. I also created a while ago a separate course for you on generating infographics and sketched in Gemini. And there I included a special file with a lot of highly customized prompts. I'm showing you some of them here. And you can absolutely use those same proms in Notebook LM, as well. Just add them to your instructions. So I definitely recommend it that's a protip. You can download those materials or go through that course as well. They work really well with Notebook LM here, too. And here is another infographics. As you can see, these styles can be very different. Definitely let me know which one's your favorite. But honestly, like I said, sky is the limit. You can customize a lot from simple things like colors to very specific requirements and details you want to include in your infographics. So give the more complicated and more complex prompts a go and let me know how it went and definitely have to experiment with this. 16. Data Tables You’ll Actually Use: Data table. Sometimes you don't want paragraphs. You just want data that's clean, structured and easy to scan with your eyes. And that's where data tables come in, and you can take messy information from all your sources, or the sources you prefer, your selected sources, and turn it into something superganized into data table. And suddenly everything becomes way easier to understand, to grasp and data is extracted from long sources. And this is especially useful when you are analyzing multiple sources and you want to spot patterns, or you are making decisions. And in a second, I will show you how this works on our YouTube algorithm project, although this project isn't really data and numbers heavy. So let's take a look. All right. Now let's move on to our data table. As you can see here, we have two fields. We can choose the language. Yeah, we go with English, and we can also describe the data table we want to create. Here we also have some inspiration for how we can use this. For example, list vacation destinations in Italy with city, best time to visit attractions and cost, extract the most important quotes from my readings, grouping them by topic and aor. Create a table with the major findings in this research paper using columns. With this, we can create all kinds of data tables using extracted information from our sources. We can also do something like extract the most important cases about the YouTube algorithm and group them by. What could we group them by? Let's say, by importance for new content creators. Yeah, that's a good idea. Alright, let's give it a second to generate it. As you know, it has to go through a lot of information, so it takes a moment. As you can see, we have a really clean table with sauces included. Everything is nicely structured and honestly very useful. And what's imprint here, those don't have to be numerical data. They can also be quotes, theories, insights. So the data you extract doesn't have to be numbers like so many people assume. And now let's move on to a important element, a really powerful format. 17. Slide Deck. Your Ideas, Smartly Structured Into Presentation: Slide deck. A lot is format as it structures, everything for you, key points flow. For example, you could get a full deck on the benefits of eating avocado. Let's take a look at it. Oh, a breakdown of a shift in social media. All built directly from your sources. It's one of those features that makes you realize you are turning reliable sources into something you can actually present and share. All right. Now I will show you the slide deck that notebook alum generated for our topic, the YouTube algorithm. And as you can see, with any AI, the text isn't always perfect. It is most of the time, but this time something happened. I still makes mistakes sometimes, not very often, very rarely, as I mentioned, but it just happened here today. But when it comes to the visuals and how everything is put together, I have to say, these slides are really interesting. We also have those fancy illustrations which makes everything easier to understand. These are some really interesting insights here. I also really like this style of these visuals. I don't know about you, but I think they look great. You can definitely add your own commentary on top of this. And there's this really nice closing message as well. Yeah. Overall, this is a very high quality presentation. You could easily use something like this for important presentations, even paid conferences or at work. So notebook alum can really help you and save you a lot of time. And as you can see, we have two options here. We can choose detail deck, which includes all the information, perfect for reading on its own or sending by email or presenter slides where you only get the key points on the slide and you expand on them yourself while speaking. So let's say we choose this one, we can also select the language, and we can add a custom prom to define what we wanted to focus on. For example, let's create a strategy for a new content creator who wants to thrive on YouTube this year. And this is where we define what we want to create. And in a second, I will show you just how powerful these presentations can be. Honestly, this would save me so much time a few years ago if a tool like this existed. And even if I don't create presentations that often anymore, there are still so many ways you can use this in everyday life. Just look at it, how good this presentation the slide deck looks. So 18. Sharing Options. How to Share What You’ve Built: Sharing options, share your notebook. Notebook alone isn't just a soul anymore. Let's not be selfish. You can use it with other people, just like you would with Google Docs. You can invite others to your notebook, and look, you can decide how much access they get. For example, you can add someone only as a viewer, so they can explore your sources and read your notes, and you can give them editor access, so they can actually add sources, edit things and build the notebook together with you, which is also an exciting options, right? And this is where it gets really interesting. Either give them full access, meaning they see everything, your sources, your nodes, your structures, your research, or you can limit access just the chat and search interface so they can interact with the knowledge, but without touching your setup. So you are basically deciding that I want to share my system or just the output of it. And on the top of that, you can even publish your notebooks publicly. It means you can turn your research into something other people can explore, learn from, and interact with. It can become an inspiration for other people. So this isn't just about optimizing your knowledge anymore. You can actually start building shared knowledge bases for your team, your audience, or even your business. Also, if you are not sure where to start or you feel stuck with your notebook. It helps to see how other people are using it, right. I think inspiration is always very, very valuable. So here are a few public notebooks. You can explore for inspiration. And yes, you can always find new inspiration right here because Google is curating stuff picks and presenting them right here. And I think some of those notebooks are really inspiring and you can learn a lot, a lot from them. And here are my favorites, and I really had fun while discovering these notebooks, so I will show you my favorites. So, yeah, I really recommend diving deeper into these ones and the new ones that will become Google's stopis. 19. Final Words & My Question to You!: Final words and my question to you. If I had to recommend just one AI tool for different purposes, I think at the moment, it would be notebook alum as it's one of the most useful and genuinely trustworthy tools out there. Now, after watching we talk and present everything, you know why. But here's the thing. As you already know, watching the course won't change so much on its own, using the knowledge and the things I've shown you will so don't overthink it. Overthinking is always an enemy Peguin topic, create your notebook and actually start playing with it. And I'd love to I'd really love to see what you come up with. So share it with me, share your class project, drop screenshots of your notebook. Show me your favorite feature or features, setups and workflow. Let's not make this passive. Let's make this something you actually use, okay. Also. Also, I'd really love to hear from you. What did you like the most about this course? What was the most useful or surprising part for you. Your feedback, honestly, means a lot, means the wealth to me, and it also helps me make this even better. So please let me know, and I hope to see you in the review and class project sections. So see you there.