Google NotebookLM Tutorial

About this video

The presenter demonstrates Google NotebookLM, free with a Google account, noting personal data is never used to train or improve it. Every notebook is built on sources — Google Docs, Slides, websites, YouTube videos, raw text, and uploads including PDFs, text, markdown, and MP3 audio — and chat answers are based solely on those sources, with numbered citation circles linking back to the source material. First example: adding a Kevin Stratvert pivot-table YouTube video, viewing its summary/transcript, then adding 10 of Kevin’s most-liked videos and asking NotebookLM to list his video-making principles broken into intro, tutorial content, and outro. Second: uploading audio lectures from a course on raising children who thrive, then using the Studio panel’s four generated note types — briefing doc, FAQ, timeline, and study guide (which includes key ideas, about 10 quiz questions with an answer key, essay questions, and key terms). He prompts for 10 real-world parenting scenarios with an answer key, noting chat history is not saved unless you click Save to Note. Third: Audio Overview generates a two-host podcast (his example ran 32 minutes), customizable — he asks it to make one host the lecturer, Dr. Peter Vishton — and the new interactive mode lets you join and ask the hosts questions live. Fourth: uploading handwritten notes on ‘Continuous Discovery Habits’ exported as a PDF from a Remarkable tablet and asking for one thing to teach his team tomorrow. Fifth: using ChatGPT to generate impersonation profiles for historical, contemporary, and fictional figures, pasting them into NotebookLM as a text source, and asking that personal board of advisors how to balance meaningful work and raising children.

Key takeaways

• NotebookLM is free with a Google account, answers only from your uploaded sources, and cites them with clickable numbered references
• Sources can include Docs, Slides, websites, YouTube videos, text, PDFs, markdown, and MP3 audio files
• Studio generates four note types — briefing doc, FAQ, timeline, and study guide with quiz and essay questions
• Chat history is not saved automatically; use Save to Note to keep a response in the Studio panel
• Audio Overview creates a customizable two-host podcast, and interactive mode lets you join and ask the hosts questions

Episode details: published January 23, 2025 · 13:03 long. Summary written by Self Growth Videos from the episode itself. Business results and any income figures mentioned are Kevin Stratvert’s own claims, shared for education — they are not typical or guaranteed.

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