Google's new NotebookLM in beta is so so good.

Apologies if I am late to the party, but I have just discovered it and am so impressed with the output and see that it is only going to go from strength to strength as it adds more source types.

You upload your own sources from Google Docs & Slides (of course), PDF or text, and website links, and you can use the power of AI (Gemini) to summarise them, make connections between documents, and answer all your questions about them. It's like your personalised AI working with the information that you feed it. Each response is given a citation to show you where it pulled the info from.

I've been uploading product manuals, specification documents and brochures to summarise and create blog posts, FAQs and lead capture magnets based on this information.

You can ask specific questions to flesh out specific details. Brilliant at finding that one thing you saved but couldn't find.

I uploaded some of my email and responses and asked it to generate email templates based on this information and when to send them.

I've created templates for ongoing use from past documents that I have used.

I uploaded a huge Australian Standards document and it was so helpful with an overview of the doc, summarising the main points, suggesting topics to discuss, answering questions that I had, finding where specific information was in the document. Time Saver.

Brainstorming. Idea generation. Pitch preparation. Decision making. Research.

Anyone else tried it? What have you found it is useful for?

https://notebooklm.google/

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