- NotebookLM asks users to upload collections of documents which are organized into notebooks.
- Right now, NotebookLM draws only from these notebooks when answering your questions.
- Gemini support for notebook uploads may let users combine those resources with the wider internet.
NotebookLM is arguably one of Google’s most useful AI tools, and has helped introduce us to impressive features like Audio Overviews. Perhaps its greatest strength stems from how focused it is, pulling information from the resources you specifically provide it with, rather than broadly crawling the internet as a whole. And while we’re glad that it doesn’t look like NotebookLM is about to seriously change anything there, we have spotted one new way that might let us expand the horizons of our notebooks — just a little.
As Google continues to feel out its approach to AI-fueled tools and services, one recurring theme we’ve seen involves a lot of after-the-fact overlap: Google likes to port many of its best features across to its other solutions. Audio Overviews are a prime example of that, and after debuting with NotebookLM, they’ve expanded to stuff like the Gemini app itself.