What is NotebookLM and getting started

0:00 so I used to use chat gbt a lot for work but I pretty much never use it now there's a new tool that I started using it's free to use and it's become one of my favorite and honestly one of the most powerful tools on the Internet it's called notebook LM it's from Google and check this out last week for example I wanted to learn about an investment I had four PDFs totaling over a 100 pages I just uploaded these four PDFs to notebook LM and it generated an AI podcast that I listen to on my commute and I'm not the only one who uses this Spotify use notebook LM to power Spotify wrapped this year which had a ton of AI in it so in this video I want to show you what notebook LM is why I like it and 13 things you should be doing with notebook LM to go from beginner to power user and level up your business your education your Investments or honestly just your life in general so to start

0:46 off I'm going to show this all in real time on here we can go to notebook lm. goole.com I can put a link in the description as well but when you first land here you just click on a little popup and then you want to make sure you signed into your Google account that's how it saves everything in The Notebook here and we can create our first notebook so just clicking on that it'll tell you to upload some sources and that brings me to number 13 on this list of 13 different things you should be doing with this and that is uploading multiple sources we already know on chat gbt or Gemini for example you can upload a source and ask some questions about it and that's very useful but notebook LM specifically is designed to interpret a lot of sources and it can handle a lot of different kinds of sources as well PDFs website links videos copied text Google Docs slideshows even like markdown doc documents a lot of different files can be interpreted here

1:32 so if I have like a full Audi book and it's an MP3 file I can upload that it'll interpret the entire thing transcribe it all and then it'll have answers for me that we'll use later in this video so you can see we have a bunch right there up to 50 different sources I'm going to choose a file right now so I just selected three PDFs that are about investing in Timberland for example you can upload them and then what we're able to do as you can see on the bottom very