I love this guy, No clickbait. no sudden scene changes with flashy color. Just pure gold information content. Thanks for your good honest work

this is the review , we want. no youtube baits , no redundant talk , just pure information and talk to archive goal of video. Brother , you did geat job. love it. also google did it wonderful. private authorative info fed in 1 secound and that A.I. is in our hand is amazing. we can lean from exact book with 100% surity is amazing.

Speaking of IT, I just took Notebook LM and created a notebook specifically for all my notes and information on SYNOLOGY NETWORK ATTACHED STORAGE device. I got data from PDFs, my own notes, tons of video and put it all into sources in the Notebook. It took me maybe an hour. Then I sat back and started asking NotebookLM questions about Synology devices and it just hit homerun after homerun with the correct answer. It corrected me where my knowledge of faulty. It provided me with things I didn't know. Where I am not specifically providing information, it seems to be coming up with reasoned answers. I called my Notebook Synology Consultant because it's like having a high paid Synology Consultant at my beck and call. I'm working on a book about politics in Star Trek. Suddenly this just got a whole lot easier. I hope Google doesn't toss this out. There is an incredible amount of potential here.

"I don't know why I always say 'please'" - there actually was some research published last year which showed using 'please' and being polite improved performance on benchmarks. It kinda makes sense, in the training material it is going to see people asking questions and it is also going to see that polite requests tend to get more/better responses from others.

As a 66 year old dev, if you take 30 years from me I would be creating my own NotebookLM youtube channel. This is the other half of AI, it's massive. I'm usuning it to learn mandarin and feel like a 15 year old again, day by day it gets better

This is such a gamechanger for research papers omg. Research work literally is the main task and is getting accelerated so much with the citation feature - amazing 😂

Who better than Tiago Forte to present a breakthrough technology for PKM and writing. Thank you, Tiago, for bringing this to our attention and I look forward to exploring this technology.

I started using this before it could create study guides, and I’ve been enjoying it a lot. So glad to see it here!

I have tried it with some work on Analytical Philosophy of History I am into currently: it is outstanding. It will save me days of summarization, contextualizing, connections, examination of sources. Thank you so much for sharing.

One of the aspects of this tool made me think of the old chestnut "the more things change the more they stay the same", particularly in regards to the letter he had it compose to the IT worker. Eventually this tech will become ubiquitous, and at that time having AI compose an email and site 10+ sources will be utilized by all parties involved in the communication loop, which would be more appropriate in a dynamic other than "Boss/Employee". Given the AI on each side can offer up as many citations as the other can, it would in essence devolve into an automated bandying about of AI quips and quotes between each other, rather like watching two people have their droids compete against the other to ascertain whom will assert absolute dominance. At that point, people will will have to resort back to the things that they hold within their own memory and consciousness as the blocks upon which they would shape and build their own thoughts.

Fantastic video! Appreciate the specific use cases you shared. I was struggling with how I might use NotebookLM and you helped me figure it out. Thank you! 👍👏

Incredible! The world is literally changing by day. Thank you for highlighting this tool for us, Tiago!

This overview rocks! Practical and a delight to follow along and learn. I thought I had a handle on. Google Notebook, now I realize I can do SO MUCH more with Readwise - which I already use. I'm pumped.

If it was from anybody other than Google I'd be very interested. Due to the frequency of them killing off tools just on a whim, I'm not going to invest my time on something that likely won't exist right when I need it.

I was using NotebookLM casually but you’ve really opened up some different possibilities for me and explained it clearly. Thank you so much!

I've been looking for this kind of program for awhile. Thank you Tiago

Can’t wait to try this out. Looks fantastic gets past the problem of the kind of generic response and generalised answers or having to put everything into a document and uploading it each time.

Wow... A very smart move to go into this direction. People who use note-taking apps are usually diligent/smart/educated people. It will train Google AI capability into different quality level. It captures well-thought writings and picks the brain of smart people. Usually when we use current AI apps, we just take from the AI. But, with note taking, we actually give.

I'm trying to suss out the benefit of adding highlights + notes vs. entire source materials, which would have the benefit of greater context and other information you maybe didn't pick up on the first time.

🎯 Key Takeaways for quick navigation: 00:00 📝 *Overview of Notebook LM and its features* - Introduction to Notebook LM, a new platform by Google for note-taking and information management. - Features include organizing notes, formatting, and searching through the interface. - Steven Johnson, a leader in the project, aims to create a true second brain experience using AI. 01:21 📚 *Creating and organizing notebooks* - Notebooks are the main organizational unit in Notebook LM, each dedicated to a specific project. - Users can create new notebooks, add titles, and organize information within them. - The interface allows for easy navigation and management of multiple notebooks. 02:15 📑 *Adding and managing sources* - Users can add sources from Google Drive, PDFs, or copied text, which serve as the basis for AI interactions. - Sources are summarized, and full contents can be accessed for reference. - Multiple sources can be added simultaneously, providing a comprehensive context for AI interactions. 04:47 💬 *Interacting with the AI* - The AI interface allows for conversational interactions, where users can ask questions, request summaries, or seek insights. - Users can choose from suggested questions or customize their queries based on specific needs. - The AI provides structured responses, which can be further refined or expanded upon as needed. 08:21 🛠️ *Use cases and applications* - Notebook LM offers various use cases, including reading comprehension, meeting note synthesis, and writing assistance. - Source-grounded AI ensures that information is drawn from trusted sources, enhancing credibility and reliability. - Users can leverage the platform for tasks such as summarizing articles, generating proposals, or exploring new ideas. 09:16 📖 *Reading comprehension and knowledge synthesis* - Users can upload complex texts, such as academic papers, for summarization and comprehension assistance. - The AI can extract key points, provide explanations, and generate insights based on the uploaded content. - Users can explore specific topics, request examples, or translate information into different formats. 11:31 📝 *Meeting note synthesis* - Notebook LM facilitates the synthesis of meeting transcripts, allowing users to extract key points and insights efficiently. - Detailed transcripts can be processed and summarized, saving time and improving productivity. - Users can generate proposals, letters, or reports based on synthesized meeting notes. 14:58 ✍️ *Writing assistance and ideation* - The platform assists users in various stages of the writing process, from editing and rewriting to generating new ideas. - Users can receive suggestions for improving existing articles, converting formats, or exploring related topics. - Notebook LM supports ideation by generating research avenues, exploring connections between topics, and providing inspiration for new content. 18:38 📝 *Generating article ideas and outlines with NotebookLM* - Utilizing NotebookLM to brainstorm article ideas. - Crafting outlines with specific examples to enhance content. - Iteratively refining article titles and outlines through collaborative interaction with the AI. 21:10 📚 *Setting up Readwise for efficient content import* - Configuring Readwise to sync highlights and notes from various sources. - Integrating Readwise with Google Drive and NotebookLM for seamless content utilization. - Ensuring proper export settings in Readwise to optimize content organization in Google Docs. 23:19 🛠️ *Acknowledging limitations and challenges of NotebookLM* - Recognizing the experimental nature of the platform and associated bugs. - Highlighting constraints such as source format limitations and a maximum of 20 sources. - Anticipating future improvements while navigating current obstacles in AI-driven content creation. 24:43 🔄 *Unifying creative processes with NotebookLM* - Describing NotebookLM as an integrated space for reading, research, note-taking, and writing. - Emphasizing the seamless transition between different stages of content creation. - Positioning NotebookLM as a tool for maintaining productivity and staying in a creative flow state. Made with HARPA AI

This is just going to be Google Keep v2.0

Thanks Tiago, this is awesome. I have been looking for an note-taking app like this. I have to check this out!

Tiago you are so well read sir. You have read thousands of amazing books. Thank you for making this video.

Looks useful but all I am seeing is pages full of text which is a bit off putting if you hate reading. Would be handy if it could output some info in diagrams, mind-maps and other visual ways. US based customers too means only a small fraction of Google's users can use it.

I loved it at first, and still love the concept. Problem I had was that it would not reliably limit itself to the sources I uploaded, and I had to start writing my requests a dozen different ways to try to make it stop pulling in accurate but extraneous information to the summaries. Example, summarizing aspects of books written in the 1800s started yielding descriptions of events in the 1960s. Real events, but no chance they were in my materials. That's a problem in some use cases. I submitted a ticket about getting some kind of checkbox that ensured responses were limited to contents of the sources. Interestingly, it was not happening all the time...

I have two classes coming up and I can't wait to try this out!!

At first I didn't want to watch this, having been disappointed with numerous similar video topics, but the more I watched, the more I was impressed with the tool and Tiago's masterful presentation of it. I am already using it!

Hey Tiago! Great video!! Can’t wait to test this out. Quick question… any tips you can give me on how you created the transcript of your meeting? I’d like to start doing this on all my meetings. Is it a Google meet only thing? Or are you able to feed it recordings of other meetings?

Wow, this is a game changer!! Headed to sign up now.😉

I always learn something when I watch your videos! This was excellent. Can’t wait to try it😊.

This functionality has been around for several months with OpenAI GPT's as well as tools like Notion's QA. The big news is the huge context window and the smooth integration with Drive.

Sensacional, Tiago. Obrigado por compartilhar essa incrível ferramenta, sua forma de explicar faz toda a diferença.

Great introduction to NotebookLM. I appreciate that you to the time to share your knowledge and ideas with us.

You have really given focus to this by demonstrating some practical specific use cases. It looks interesting but it is yet another app. I have been doing probably 90% of these things in Notion since they introduced the AI chat on page level. All my sources are already in the app in my databases and obviously it does a huge amount of other jobs. Perhaps if this could talk to the other Google Workspace apps that would broaden it's applicability. Having said that when it becomes available outside the US, I would certainly be keen to try it. Thanks for this detailed review. Great job!

Wow this seems amazing. I wish I was taking notes when I was some books recently. I will try doing so going forward. I can see interesting uses for this for sure

Tiago, you're awesome and thank you for this walkthrough. You would really reap the rewards of learning how to type. Not being facetious, honestly. You could do it in a short period of time and it would return benefits for the rest of your life.

This seems potentially best for research. If I want to quickly learn the abstract of a field, I can download leading articles / studies on the subject, and have NotebookLM summarize and explain them for me. Likely, cutting my research time from hours to minutes.

Just for information: it is not trained on your documents - it is impossible yet - it uses Retrieval Augmented Generation method to answer your docs.

Btw very nice well done video, I have to admit he has a very calm voice easy to listen to

Excellent software and excellent summary, thanks! Question: Does it work in other languages (spanish in particular)?

Fantastic! I've been trying to figure out how to use Google for my 2nd brain for weeks!

Great job! It was a pleasure to watch. So clear and to the point. The video and sound quality was excellent. I would love to see your recording setup (video and software) so that I can emulate it for my videos! I am a professor and I am looking to improve my instructional videos. Thanks!

Can't wait for this to be available to me. My guess was this was the direction they were going with Gemini + Google Workspace extension. But a dedicated tools works, too.

Very nicely presented.. watched Your entire video 1st time with interest... Nice thanks for sharing🎉👌🏻😀

Thank you Tiago for the review. I really searching for this now as Im exploring the AI for note taking material that I read or watch. Indeed. So informative and helpful

I’m a huge fan of you and a paid subscriber to your course content. I’m so so deep into notion now, with my global tags, integrations etc, that while this looks amazing, i’m really curious what your true daily driver is for your 2nd brain? And i’d also like to understand how you see PARA living in this product. thx!

An amazing tool, would be helpful in generating concise summaries, outlines and interaction to extract required information out, thanks for sharing this

Excellent review and demonstration. Thank you very much.

Man, this is THE most useful tool and explanation video that is relevant to many of my everyday needs, i.e. create presentations, business plans, marketing initiatives etc. based on what's relevant in my interest, field, and perspective. Thank you!

Great video, my note are just notes make very little sense, I have dumped a lot of them into LM, what are some interesting questions to assimilate a mess of thoughts. Thanks for posting this its very cool video, the notes so far without much has summarized the mess of thoughts to some degree, so that an improvement . . .

This is big, but only in the US… However it’s absolutely the blueprint for a lot of upcoming software, I guess…

I'm a fan of saying "please" to AI! I've been taught to treat it as my assistant plus we don't want to lose our humanity hanging out with our AI staff all day!

This is crazy powerful. I've been using gpt, and copilot a lot but havent been able to have them consume large portions of my content.. this is next level..

Looks good. I hate organising files and notes because there are so many ways to group them and applying tags is tedious and error prone. This seems like a good solution for me.

this is incredible! As a writer I can see this being massively useful for so many applications. Disappointed it is only available in the US still, may have to get a VPN just to try it myself!

Really appreciate the tip! 👍

Appreciated the reply. Thank you for the excellent introduction to this new tool.

love this video!!

Hi Diego, very cool presentation1 I was just wondering if you could turn the background music off during your presentation? It’s very distracting, especially for people who are hard of hearing or who have difficulty concentrating more than one thing at once . We would appreciate it if you could do that! ❤

Mind is blown🤯 This is truly awesome!

Alas, as a Canadian, I cannot access this tool yet. But I'll definitely be keeping a lookout for when it launches up here

This is a fantastic video, thank you!

Thanks Elon. It was very useful

Readwise finally syncs with Google Docs! How'd I miss that! Don't need Evernote or Notion any longer.

Great video! The AI tool is amazing. It´s a pity that it can´t be used in other countries.

im impressed by how organized you seem to be.

Super helpful, thank you!

Thanks for this tutorial! I just tried it (from Spain). I asked for a summary of some sources in English (pdf) and it made the summary in Spanish. Not only that, but I had to explicitly ask to do it in English. Somehow, it sticks to the local language. Not a big deal, but it is weird. As you say, it is a beta version. They surely improve it.

This is amazing! Thanks for sharing

Wow - thank you. Very clear and helpful.

Mentioning Steven Johnson got my attention. Your diction and pacing are great and you get high marks for CLARITY. Is there a story behind your shirt choice?

incredibly useful video as always

This is exciting if it starts to tie tasks and activities to notes. Not to mention the research aspects. But with it being experimental,will anyone actually commit to using it real world?

Great revieew - thank you!!

This is amazing! Thank you

Readwise now exports to Google Docs. Combined with this that's powerful. Write your notes in a Google doc stored in a project folder.

Great overview, thanks for sharing. I did find the music a bit distracting

Man, what a fantastic presentation. Love it.

Looks good. But my question would be is Google getting property rights to your notes that you upload and the output?

I'm happy to see how Tiago has updated his methodology post Chat gpt world. My best wishes to you TF.

Great video, very well presented for a simple mind like mine.

elon musk dad?

I love this. Great video!

Hello Tiago. "Please" is a high vibration, which you exude. I always say "Thank you" to my AI's. hahaha. I bet they will remember WHO was nice, if they ever decide to "take over". 😅 Kindness is never wasted. Asking politely just feels better. Nice work here, Thank you very much for the use cases. If I have a gentle suggestion, it would be either to lower the music or remove it. Take care.

It’d be cool if you could interview the engineer who pitched it or worked on it

You giving google and Ai all of your private and personal information. Ai learning from everyone which only makes Ai more powerful than ever

This is actually useful as compared to the numerous malicious opportunities that SORA presents.

Excelente video. Muchas gracias

This is amazing technology - thank you for posting this information. I just looked into it and I think this is something that could be really helpful for me. I've been spinning my wheels lately on how I want to "take notes" for all this information I've got inside my head. Do I want to write it down, pen to paper? Do it digitally? If I do it digitally, will it be stored or will the site go belly-up in a year? These are the thoughts in my brain, lol - but this offering from Google sounds promising and hopefully something they'll stay with. I've got tons of notes in their GKeep product, which is amazing.

Also feels like something Vertex Ai can do (only for free). Also like the Ai whiteboard type function (like a Jamboard but for Ai conversions)

Thanks you. Amazing content.

I’m fairly certain the context window wouldn’t be 4M words. It would be using search algorithms to find relevant information from those documents. That’s useful, but fitting it all in the same context window would yield much better results

Great video - HOWEVER IT embeds ONE OF THE MAIN PROBLEMS OF AI - Stating something as a fact which is not. Specifically it states that knowledge which is incorrect can be harmful. Knowledge is always correct! People may believe they know something - incorrectly but knowledge is necessarily correct (representing things as they are on an appropriate basis of thought and experience - knowledge.)

Thanks Tiago for your brief but helpful review. What's your thoughts on NotebookLM and Obisidian? By the way, while I was listening to your video, I used NotebookLM to work on a pre-course self-assessment for a training program I am designing! 🌟

Well this should help me sift through some documents in creating the financial instruments people don't often know about.

What transcription service do you recommend?

This is not creativity. It’s not content creation, it’s content production. This isn’t a second brain it’s a separate brain. This bypasses learning.

Interesting video, I enjoyed watching how organised you are which I think makes the process of using NotebookLM much smoother than it would be for me. Your video looked good although the shot from behind with the monitor in focus on the left and you out of focus on the right is a little distracting. Everytime the shot appears my eyes are first drawn to see you blurred on the right and then move to the screen on the left. I assume that the important part of the image to be looking at was the screen although you also used it when doing your outro at the end which I don’t think works very well seeing as you are the focus and and you’re out of focus. I’d frame the shot with the screen more central and and maybe even cut part of you off as more of a “dirty” over the shoulder film style shot. It might be a case of your organised, ordered thinking struggling to frame things in an asymetrical way… but overall the video was good and the quality of the information was great.

Wow. This is amazing.

Hi Tiago, what is that piece of tech you used to transcribe that meeting? I do zoom meetings all the time and have tried note taking apps but none that transcribed the whole thing like that. Thanks!