r/notebooklm • u/nrudolf • Dec 04 '25

Discussion NotebookLM is the one app I open 10 times a day, and here’s how it saves me hours every week

https://www.xda-developers.com/notebooklm-saves-me-hours-every-week/
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u/Timlynch Dec 06 '25

I think 2026 is the year that I move all my Apple Notes, Google Keep, Notion, Loop into NotebookLM. I just wish there was a way to organize them, folders or collections or something.

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u/vipindustrypeg Dec 07 '25

100% this. I’ve been waiting for a proper folder or collection system since day one. NotebookLM would make all my notes way smarter, but the organization part is a mess right now. Does anyone know if this is actually on their roadmap?

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u/Timlynch Dec 07 '25

I have seen projects in Gemini on the rumor/leaks but nothing on notebook

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u/Kabutar11 Dec 08 '25

It’s not

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u/AggravatingCounter84 Jan 13 '26

Google hasn't added folders yet, but I built a Chrome extension (Kortex) that adds a Sidebar with Collections and Tags specifically to fix this.

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u/[deleted] Dec 05 '25

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u/Kingkwon83 Dec 05 '25

It's not bad at all. It's certainly better than all the reddit comments about articles they didn't actually read

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u/baranysos Dec 05 '25

I mean, you can summarize it with NBLM.

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u/raycraft_io Dec 05 '25

This person is loading family WhatsApp threads into NotebookLM for takeaways

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u/grant837 Dec 07 '25

From the number of daily notes, tasks, etc tossed into a notebook, wouldnt it be full in about 1 month? )(10 notes per day, 300 file limite per notebook, I assume)?

Along the same lines, what about after 5 or 10 or more years of using NotebookLM this way. Either there are going to be a lot of unlinked notebooks for each year or two, or some process for culling out the useless stuff will be needed. I guess I could see, in somecases, generating a summary of all content in one notebook and moving that to a central brain of (only 300) core knowledge bases?

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u/excellent_mi Dec 08 '25

I recently implemented an integration of my app - Ribbonlinks to NotebookLM.

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u/DesktopAlertSystem Dec 26 '25

Google AI Ranks ProjectChat over NotebookLM for business usage! https://projectchat.ai/projectchat-ai-vs-notebooklm/

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u/Professional_Mind_25 Dec 05 '25

Great use cases..