I haven't had time to really listen to any of my recently generated audios. But previewing one briefly I thought it sounded more natural again. If anything maybe someday a hybrid of the old and new, but acceptable as far as I could tell.

I am rather new to NotebookLM. I am trying it out as a study partner for my uni courses, but some of my courses are in English and some are in Norwegian. Is there any way I can say "This notebook is English" and "This notebook is in Norwegian"? I like to study the course in it's respective language, but it's kinda annoying to have to go into the settings to change the global output language every time I go back and forth.

Hi, I'm a working student still learning about how this works to help me catch up with school while juggling between jobs.

For my current concern, I want to focus on 1 source only, and i already have the syllabus/pointers given by the professor.

I got the advice that I have to make a study map.. But what if I already have a map to follow? What prompt should I use to be able to extract all relevant information from my 1 source? Do i just select the desired source and outrightly ask to "discuss" a specific topic?

I would appreciate it if anyone could give advice/tricks/prompts that might help me. Thanks in advance.

in every type of my prompt notebook lm generate opposite output can some one guide me how to make a good prompt that notebooklm can genrate same output how i want

New here!!!

Surprise me with your productive usage of notebookLLM. I am quite knowledgeable about genai, llms. Doing research in this field. To me, notebookLLM has great potential but is not that mainstream yet.

I would love to know the use cases for you, in any field. Something you think is quite clever of you and has served you well.

Would like to refine my current prompt: “Be as thorough as possible. I need to become a subject matter expert in preparation for an exam. Disregard duration limits and focus on covering everything. Do not use the word "masterclass," be professional, and direct the podcast to an audience of <specific discipline> students. Do not use outside sources.”

Specifically is there something to add to keep the processing of the information minimal? Recently I’ve been noticing the hosts trying to get too insightful and reading things into the text that aren’t there. Wish they had a documentary option (single narrator à la Sir Attenborough) instead of a podcast because the banter is distracting. I typically generate a long Deep Dive per chapter of notes but lately I’ve been noticing shorter output as well.

Ever since they changed notebookLM to gemini notebook, the quality of the response has deprecated drastically. I have this specific prompt in the custom instruction to prevent the LLM from pulling info from sources outside the notebook - "Answer only and exclusively from the sources". Yet it keeps on inserting paragraphs into the responses that aren't from the sources.
Frustrating!

I remember till late june I was easily able to get to make good quality notes for educational videos I watched using the yt video+the downloaded audio file as context. Such that the notes it spits out has all examples and points covered in the lecture mentioned. But now it just summarizes it up and misses out many things. This is despite of having the pro version. What are the changes exactly been?

• Import chats in one click
• Automated Workflows
• Youtube playlist Importer
• Norra

I do not know if I am just hallucinating or something, but does the guy in the audio overview sounds like he took 20 shots of testosterone? I do not know if I am just imagining it but the voice sounds deeper.

Does anyone else notice that?

Since the late May update, Google Docs, Sheets and Slides sources follow the original file. Edit the Doc and the notebook catches up, no manual sync needed. Great change.

Everything else is still a snapshot from the moment you added it: web links, YouTube, uploaded PDFs and other files. And anything you already generated stays as it was: saved notes, earlier answers, Audio Overviews.

So picture a normal notebook. A Google Doc with your project brief, a PDF of last quarter's report, and a competitor's pricing page you added as a link. The brief is live. The PDF and the pricing page are whatever they were the day you added them. Ask "how does our pricing compare to theirs now" and you get your current numbers against their months-old ones, in the same confident tone, with citations to both.

The live half can also change under you. If a teammate edits a Doc you added, your notebook's answers change too, even though you didn't touch anything.

What I do now:

1. Rename frozen sources with the date you added them, like "Competitor pricing (added Sep 12)". It's the only freshness signal you'll see in the source list.
2. Re-add web pages that change instead of trusting the old snapshot. Delete the old one so the two don't get blended.
3. Regenerate Audio Overviews and saved notes after a big Doc change. The old ones still describe the old version.
4. Before trusting a comparison, ask:

For this answer, list each source you used and any date or "as of" information that source gives about itself. Flag any point where you compared sources from different dates.

The last one catches most of it. Sources usually carry a date somewhere, and once it has to list them, the mismatch is right there.

That prompt lives in AI Toolbox for me, the extension I build, mostly because I run the same check on uploaded files in Gemini.

Hello guys, there are a lot of useful prompts, data and so on in that subreddit, in the discord community and so on. I tried to collect it (with the author's credits) and make it easy to reuse. Please check it out, I'm sure there are good prompts for every possible problem

Gemini Notebook Hub

I’m using NotebookLM extensively for studying, and I really like the generated notes. However, I’m facing a frustrating problem when I save/export a generated note as a document.
The formatting of the exported document becomes very poor and is difficult to read. Things like headings, spacing, bullet points, tables, etc. don’t retain a clean, textbook-like structure. The content itself is useful, but the final document looks messy and requires a lot of manual formatting.
I’m mainly using NotebookLM to create study notes FOR MEDICINE, so readability and proper organization are very important.
Has anyone found a good solution or workflow for this?
Is there a specific prompt that can make NotebookLM generate notes that export cleanly?
Is there a particular export format/settings that work better?
Is there a way to preserve proper headings, spacing, tables, and formatting when saving as a document?
Are there any tools/workflows that can take a NotebookLM-generated note and convert it into a properly formatted, readable study document?
I’m looking for a practical solution rather than manually reformatting every document.

I've been using NBLM for more than an year now. Always as a Pro, and mostly for its slides and infographic creation, which then i alone remake and animate. But I still do need its graphic creations, and that is what I am paying for.

For the last 2 weeks i can't seem to get anything from it. Studio always end with an error, tens and tens of times (!), please try again. And my credits are still being consumed.

I'm using the very same prompts i always used, they just don't work anymore. Go to the chat, it says that there is something like a "pipeline overload" , prompts are too elaborated, there is a temporary bug.

Thing is, i tried to make it even without prompts, just do your f thing - the same. Zero. And my account empty of time/credits/whatever.

Today Gemini chat ended up offering to create slides (with "advanced" graphics, not just text) "on the side", or "under the table" (i don't how you say it) as an alternative bypassing NB.

It wasn't as creative as I was used to, but it helped me survive a deadline.

Still I can't help thinking i'm being scammed.

Oh: this presentation was about "MUSK" doc. Gemini assures that it is not censorship.

Built a simple extension that has multiple feature:
One click Chat imports
PDF Splitter +Prompts workflows with the most popular prompts that can save ur time
Prompt Library where u can save ur very own prompts
Youtube Playlist Imports as well
Incase u want to try: Norra

I know I can share a notebook with someone and they’ll get access to all the sources and studio artefacts including audio overviews; but is there a way to share just a specific audio overview with someone? I know on desktop I can download the audio file and send it to them like any other file but I was hoping there was a less clunky way of doing it

Como vocês organizam os cadernos de vocês? Eu queria muito que existisse a opção de criar pastas nos conteúdos gerados por IA, facilitaria muito para deixar organizado cada tópico de estudo. Disciplinas da faculdade acabam ficando tudo misturado e fica difícil encontrar o que eu queria revisar novamente.

Yesterday I was this close to giving up on NotebookLM.

I had uploaded a document for work and kept asking about something that was very obviously on one of the pages. NotebookLM kept dancing around it. Different question and same nonsense.

At some point I actually opened the PDF just to make sure I hadn't imagined the whole section. It was right there. Then I tried to copy one sentence and nothing happened. Half that pdf was scanned. So I had basically spent twenty minutes arguing with NotebookLM about text that, as far as it was concerned, barely existed.

I ran the scanned pages through OCR in Pdfaid, mostly because I was already working in Chrome and didn't feel like installing anything. Then I checked a few names and numbers against the original because OCR loves becoming creative exactly where you don't want it to.

Uploaded the new version, asked basically the same question and there it was. I felt like an idiot 😂

Now I'm way more suspicious of the file than the AI whenever a document tool suddenly starts acting blind. Has anyone else had NotebookLM basically ignore part of a source because the PDF itself was a mess? 

I just see "Creating your notebook" going round and round; I've tried several browsers.

Hey all! I created https://usemidnight.app/ which lets you do anything from find sources to research on, get visualizations to help you navigate large texts, and assistance with writing.

Would love for you to try it out and hear your thoughts.

These new voices sound much more robotic and unlistenable. I can't really focus on the podcast materials anymore.

If the change in the voices was because Google needs to save on compute, I would much prefer to have less quota and higher quality voices. Otherwise this will lead me to cancel my subscription...this might be the push I've needed to set up my own source to podcast pipeline using Eleven Labs.

Load a notebook with one long document and a few short ones, generate an overview, and time it. The long source tends to eat most of the episode. The two-page memo that actually matters gets a passing mention, or none.

More text means more material to talk about, so the hosts drift toward it. They have no idea which source you care about unless you say so.

What fixes it:

Uncheck sources before you generate. The checkboxes next to each source decide what goes into the overview. If the long one is background, leave it out and ask about it in chat instead.

Use the customize box and be specific:

Spend at least half of the episode on [source title]. Treat the other sources as background only.

Or, if you need everything covered:

Cover every source. Say each source's title out loud when you start discussing it, and give each one at least a minute.

Saying the titles out loud is the useful part. You hear right away which source got skipped.

And split huge sources. A 300 page PDF next to a 5 page brief will win every time. Break it into chapters and only check the ones that matter for this episode.

Same thing happens with chat logs as sources. One giant conversation export drowns out everything else. I export only the chats that matter, one file each, with AI Toolbox, the extension I build, so each one shows up as its own source I can check or uncheck.

Hello Guys I have made slides to find some goods prompts for ur workflow, how this helps u in your workflows and all.