12 NotebookLM Epic Use Cases You Must Try

notebook LM from Google is one of the most useful AI tools available today and is completely free to use and I wanted to show you 12 different notebook LM use cases in this video that you could try right now so we'll start with the basics and then we'll finish up with combining notebook LM with some other AI tools we'll create video podcast we'll actually give notebook LM an AI Avatar and a whole lot more advanced things as we finish up the video this video is sponsored by HubSpot more on that in a bit now you

could access notebook LM at notebook lm. gooogle and they just got a big upgrade which is it is now built with Gemini 2.0 so when you jump into notebook LM here's the homepage I'm going to start here by creating a new notebook so notebook LM is organized into different notebooks and it'll bring you to this page well you always start with a source so your Source could be different PDF documents text documents and there are some other things on the bottom that I'll show you in a second right now let's just start with a note

and I'm going to start with an entire course transcript I have over here as a PDF document I'll upload this and once you add that right in the middle here you could have a conversation with all your notes so you could ask for a one- sentence recap and here's our one sentence recap and it gives us little annotations on where you got that information from which is directly from your own notes so that's use case number one a very obvious use case but I'm going to also add another source because with these notebooks you could

have many sources even though that document was a massive PDF document I could also add things directly from my Google Drive from Google docs for example which is going to be very useful and if you look down here Source limit 50 you could have 50 different sources just in one notebook so I'll insert a Google doc over here seven free AI productivity tools that's going to add it to this list of generative AI tools as well and I'm going to show you a resource in a little bit that's going to give you ton of different

free prompts that you could use to interact with notebook LM and other chat Bots let's get to number two now tip number two is quickly repurposing this note into something like a study guide or even a useful outline like if you're writing a blog post or if you're making something educational they have that right over here on the right side so let me show you the study guide option I'm going to click on it it literally creates a new note this is generating a new note using Gemini so it generated entire study guide for us

including a quiz and quiz answers essay questions key terms all in one click which is extremely useful so I use this for this very specific AI boot camp course that we just finished up so it went through that entire big document that PDF document and the other dock that I added to it as well and you could also do the same thing and create a briefing dock I'll show you what that looks like very useful as well and as you can see over here this is more closer to a page or two worth of content

from well over maybe 30 40 Different Page PDF and other documents here that I've added and what's really nice about these is you could convert these to a source and it will appear over here and then you could actually have this as part of that notebook and then you could go into it and get a quick summary of The Briefing so really easy way to do that and obviously you could use the chat in the center to have any type of a question and any conversation with your notes now for use case number three let

me create a new notebook and this time I'm going to use a different source so let's go to a website so down here you could add a link I'm going to go ahead and add a website link I'm going to take this link from Wikipedia here and we'll go back to our notebook and we'll paste it over here and I'm going to insert that as a source now for this use case I want to show you this creating the timeline option let me show you exactly what that does specifically with this type of thing that's

based on history or based on a certain period of time and look at this really nice easy to follow timeline from the very beginning of that article in 27 BC all the way up to 1453 ad and even add a cast of characters in that time and I'm going to show you another AI tool that will now turn this into a graphic so this is called napkin AI so I just copied and paste that entire text over here and with all my text selected here I'm going to click this little icon over here and it

literally is going to generate a graphic that you could put inside of any type of presentation for example or your website and look at that it just literally created this from that text I gave it and they have ton of different styles and variations too so you could scroll through and see which one makes the most sense for your presentation and then if you like any of the Styles they also have different variations based on the type of presentation you're putting together now the next use case is pretty new they added a way to use

a YouTube link or multiple YouTube links as a source instead of a website so let me show you that next so I'll go to my own channel look for Notebook LM here in the search bar and here's a few different notebook LM related things I'm going to go ahead and copy the link from this video and then we could use that as a source over here and just like that you are now able to have a conversation and ask any questions you want directly from a YouTube video now the real power of this is not

just having one YouTube video that you could have a conversation with but you could actually add sources and add up to 50 different YouTube videos from all your favorite channels on the same topic inside of the same note and you can mix and match it with different websites too so I'll use this link for example there's AI fundamentals here and it's a large list of different sources I'll copy that over and we'll go ahead and paste that URL so now it's going to have everything from my video about notebook LM it's going to have all

these things about AI fundamentals as a source and I could start asking it any questions over here and get it to repurpose any of this content for me in different ways now if you want a better way to prompt notebook LM and other AI chat Bots I got a resource from HubSpot that I wanted to share with you that is going to save you a ton of time especially when you're prompting chat box like notebook LM but it works inside of chat GPT and Claud and Gemini I pretty much any AI power chatbot these prompts

are extremely useful they gave me a comprehensive list of over a thousand different prompts that will help you with productivity and these include different expert prompts that cover things like strategy content creation SEO brand pretty much everything you need if you're a marketer entrepreneur and Creator I've been personally using these prompts for a while now and they save me a whole lot of time it's 100% free resource and I recommend you download the prompt from the link in the description below test it out with notebook LM any other chat GPT conversations you're having and it

will save you a good amount of time in your day-to-day work and as you have a conversation with notebook LM using your own notes as a source it's going to give you responses but the nice thing is you could always save these as a note over here and it's going to save it as a note on the right side that you could always refer back to and you could also press add notes and then just type out your own Notes too manually so it's a really nice way to just use AI powered note taking with

these prompts as well as having your own notes and then when you take your own notes you could always converted as a source too and it will appear over here as your Source now the next one is the ability to create a notebook with your own voice notes so I tend to use my iPhone to record a lot of voice notes for myself but I pretty much never organized them in a good useful way till now now I could drop all those files right over here and then have a notebook that I could have a

conversation with I could use the prompt book to digest different things from my own notes so I open up the app on my phone this is called the voice memo app if you have an iPhone and then I could actually transfer all these into this source so I'll do that right now and I added four different audio files and typically every time there's a new AI update and I find out about it I Leave myself a note so then if I'm doing my newsletter I could just recap that very quickly all the new updates in

AI okay perfect it talked about Sora the new 01 pro model the $200 a month reasoning model from chat GPT Google's new text to video generation platform and then I could just go ahead and save this as my note right here and it's going to save it over here and I could send it to someone to write our newsletter for us now the next one I wanted to show you is if you do any type of video conferencing like Zoom calls Microsoft teams call which pretty much all of us do you could create a notebook

and then have conversations with that recording and the way you do that is just upload that conference call onto YouTube but make sure it's unlisted so it could transcribe that video for you I'll show you some other transcription tools too but this works a little bit easier and then here I'll use this Gemini video as an example that's 30 minutes and then you just press share on it copy the link and inside of any notebook you would go ahead and add that as a YouTube source and just like that you could have an AI power

conversation with any conference call and that went through a 30-minute video in just a few seconds and gave me all the cliff notes here that I need from that and then it always gives you a source to so you could jump directly into the source and here's the full transcript that he automatically pulled in from YouTube now the next option I wanted to show you was analyzing an entire book using notebook LM and Google is particularly good at this because they have a large context window so your input on your prompt side your sources could

be massive so what I could do is I'm going to take this entire book A Tale of Two Cities and in this website right here they have a version of it that is just plain text so you could go ahead and download the plain text in this case they even give you a website URL but you could also upload an entire book as a PDF too and I'm going to go ahead and create a notebook and I'm going to in this case use a website but if you have it as a download a text file

a PDF just drop it over here you could always add it to Google Docs and add it through there too and in just a few seconds here that entire book was digested in and I'm going to click here to ask for a briefing Dock and I'll just use one of these prompts here that is recommending just to get some text down here too it's going to give us all these different reference points that we could click on and it's going to take us to that point in our book right here which is super helpful and

this is the briefing that I got very quick briefing of that entire book in literally just one click now let's start combining notbook LM power with some of my favorite AI apps the next one I want to show you is translating anything you you get out of notebook LM into a different language so I'm going to take this briefing right here I'm going to copy that over and I'm going to show you my favorite translator this is called de L and all you have to do is paste some text over here and literally in one

second it translated it from English to Chinese I could click this translate it to German and literally I could just copy and paste this translation from here I'm I'm just showing you here in real time it literally takes one click and in one second later you got a different translation and that brings us to one of the most powerful things you could do with notbook Gan which is this thing called audio overview I'm going to go ahead and click it it's based on whatever Source you have set up over here but what it's going to

do is it's going to generate a human sounding podcast between two people and it's very interesting when you listen to it I'm going to actually play a few seconds for you as soon as it generates welcome to the Deep dive today uh we're diving into Charles dickens's A Tale of two cities you've sent over some excerpts and I'm I'm really curious to hear uh what you make of all this you know revolutionary France Mysteries those classic Dickens characters yeah Dickens was a master Storyteller that's for sure yeah and uh a tale of 2 cities is

really something special okay how about that and look at this this is 16 minutes and 42 seconds and I could go ahead and press download this is going to download that audio file for us okay so that's pretty cool but everyone that uses notebook LM has access to those two voices right now every podcast is going to be that same two people or AIS reading that script for you but what if you could change that well let me show you a couple ways you could do that I'm going to use an app called descript this

is going to go ahead and transcribe the whole thing so we could isolate the two voices and we have the entire transcription and I could go ahead and identify the speakers here and I could make any edits to this by the way using just a text file so if I want to remove something I could go ahead and select any section like this and just just deleted and not only does it remove the text it actually edits the audio so then I could reexport the audio back out after I'm done editing the audio so I

wanted to show you dript first because it's a great way to edit any type of audio without knowing how to edit you literally edit the text that you don't want but because we have the transcription that takes us to the next use case which is changing the voices from the default notebook LM voices so I'll take speaker number one and inside of 11 labs they have a text to speak so you could go ahead and create it this way but they have a brand new thing that I wanted to show you this is called voice

studio and I'll just go ahead and create one to show you exactly how it works and this literally allows me to create a multirack audio file so first Speaker the text for that is going to go over here but I could add another track another voiceover track and this one is going to become my second speaker as soon as I click over here and then I'll go back to descript over here and then we'll take speaker 2's line which is right over here and add that into this section and because I have the ability to

edit that text script now I could even clean it up as much as I want to in here and I could generate the audio from here from here a little bit timec consuming but very powerful right something you just weren't capable of doing before welcome to the Deep dive today we're diving into Charles Dickens A Tale of Two Cities okay now let's go to the second speaker and you could edit this however you want so you could just get them closer to overlap yeah Dickens was a master Storyteller that's for sure how awesome is that

now you could actually have a unique sounding podcast instead of the one everyone else is getting out of notebook LM right now now the next thing you could do is you could actually get notebook LM to give you text prompts for video generation and create an entire video or even a little short film so what I did was I asked it to create different text prompts for a textto video platform and I asked for 10 different shots that could summarize that entire book and since Sora recently came out I use Sora here to generate bunch

of different clips over here and then you could use another platform like sunno and then this will turn a text prompt into your background music here's a little preview of what that could look [Music] like now the next one we're really going to bring that AI podcaster to life and I'm going to use 11 laps to do that so let me go ahead and show you a little preview all right so you've really been digging into all this generative AI stuff and it is a lot right feels like it's changing everything every time you turn

around it really is moving that fast so we're doing a deep dive today on your stack of transcripts absolutely and not just like the what but like what does this actually mean for you listening right so first things first before we even get to chat GPT so I took the actual audio from notbook LM transcribed it and gave it to hey Jen and hey Jen was able to clone me to replace the podcaster that notbook LM made and then I cut using cap cut which is a video editor I cut the female podcaster with myself

I created an entire video about exactly how I did that because that would be an entire video and I want to show you ton of different use cases with notbook LM all in one video so I'll link that video here if you want to watch that next I've also been working on a complete notebook LM course and that's going to be ready next month so I'll put a link in the description to a wait list and I'll let you know via email when it's ready and in that course I also cover notebook LM plus which

is the paid upgrade thank you so much for HubSpot for sponsoring this video again make sure you grab that prompt book that they made available completely for free in the description of the video thanks so much for watching I'll see you on the next one