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Eliza's avatar

I love this app

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Felicia Betancourt's avatar

This is the most horribly written prose I have ever read. Because the topic is so compelling, I tried to ignore one red flag after another until I stumbled onto this stinker: "How Chinese labs are building models like Qwen and DeepSeek-R1-Lite are only going to continue in 2025." Can that even be considered an English sentence? What is the subject of the second "are"???

Perhaps the authors (two people created this mess!) are too lazy or cheap to get a Grammarly subscription. Well, all I do know is that I am too busy to read their AI slop.

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Daria Cupareanu's avatar

I just love NotebookLM, there are so many ways you can play with it and extract insights.

Just last night, I ran a little experiment: I loaded all my Substack posts and a PDF of all the comments I’ve received, then asked it questions to understand what topics spark the most engagement, what themes keep coming up, and where readers want more depth.

I got great insights about my readers & a lot of fresh ideas for future posts

Documented it all here: https://substack.com/@dariacupareanu/note/c-119991656

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Alex McFarland's avatar

Amazing use case!

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Michael Spencer's avatar

How to create mind maps with NotebookLM: https://aidisruptor.ai/p/how-to-create-mind-maps-with-notebooklm

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TR's avatar

Great info. I'd like to use NLM in my work, but can't give it or provide access to sensitive company information. Any suggestions on how to utilize this tool interally? We have access to GCP. Maybe develop a similar workflow within this environment?

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Valerio's avatar

Really good quality post for newbie here!

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Darren Muirheid's avatar

In the spirit of sharing new ideas on how this can be used... I have been posting the output of deep research queries from chatGPT into NotebookLM as a source to absorb the complexity that comes out of deep research questions in an interesting way. One ? was on the state of the art for using random forests in diagnosing diseases where I can ask for the most successful applications and ask for new ideas on how to make the outcomes even better. Interesting.

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Mman's avatar

This is a super duper article. Really enjoyed it. Thanks for all the info!!!

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Loic Le Meur's avatar

Nice one thanks Michael

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aritechdiva's avatar

Write what your soul is speaking and whoever has the same frequency will respond back. The Law of reciprocity.

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Flyingmum/PamC's avatar

Share your tips on how you use it

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Timbo's avatar

I had made a mobile app to do this for YouTube to help me get summaries and the next step is synthesize things. I was building for myself but hoped to monetize my time.

Seems like even niche opportunities are going to be overtaken by big tech in the space.

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Marco Marchi's avatar

Thank you! Very great and useful starting point to get NotebookLM in own proper workflow.

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Zach Mura's avatar

Thank you. This made me jump into NotebookLM right away

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Michael Spencer's avatar

That's great to hear Zach, check out Deep Research too. Deep Research for me has a fairly high ceiling for 2025. i.e. AI Agents that do research for us developing us reports. I'm interesting in how people are using Deep Research, Learn About and NotebookLM together + of course Perplexity.

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Zach Mura's avatar

Currently I’m using Perplexity - pro search has been really powerful in driving my research. Will try out Deep Research sometime soon (too many subscriptions atm.)

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Ramon Rubio de Castro's avatar

NLM really was my fav 2024 tool, it takes more time to get used to it, but the results are impressive. I launched also one of my podcast episodes, to ask the community which are their feelings when they know it is AI generates? Here the link, open to feedback.

https://open.spotify.com/episode/0ov7UrpAjvDyjwnvMA59lJ?si=AOQZGndXTKye1oPl3OvU1g&t=165

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NEMM Design's avatar

Aren’t you feeding this tool with information the same way you feed ChatGPT every time you use it? I read that people use it by inputting business documents etc…but isn’t it dangerous to feed it with confidential information for example? Even if it helps you be more productive/efficient professionally.

The whole concept is really out of this world…thanks for everything you do👏

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