Ever spent 17 minutes hunting down the right sources, then another 14 copying links one by one into NotebookLM?

Or, adding it to a prompt to Claude one by one followed by sharing context about your requirements?

Everyone has. Including the team at Google.

So they shipped a feature where you just mention a topic and it pulls sources for you. No more manual link farming.

This is one of many updates that's turned NotebookLM into something I now use daily.

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We've covered it before, but a quick refresher: NotebookLM is Google's AI research tool that grounds everything in your uploaded sources.

Unlike ChatGPT or Claude pulling from training data, it only uses what you feed it in the form of PDFs, Google Docs, web articles, whatever.

NotebookLM has been shipping ALOT and the best way to describe the recent product upgrades is from Harvey:

Let me show you why.

I like to read reports and watch long youtube videos all the time.

I used to spend 2-3 hours every weekend, now with NotebookLM i wrap it up in 30 minutes tops.

Here's the test: OpenAI's State of Enterprise AI 2025 report just released.

24 pages, text-heavy, would easily take me 2 hours this weekend to properly digest.

Instead, I fed it to NotebookLM.

Got a summary note right out of the gate.

That's useful. But it gets better.

Infographics, Slide Decks, and Mindmaps

NotebookLM now generates infographics (using Nano Banana 3), slide decks, and mindmaps. And you can customize how you want each response to look.

I tested all three formats. Starting with the infographic.

The infographic took TWO minutes.

And it's... actually good? I cross-referenced the data and it’s accurate. Text rendering is clean, layout isn’t overwhelming.

That two minutes it took to generate this just saved me an afternoon.

Slide Decks

I pushed it further with slides. Gave it a custom prompt asking for specific formatting and tone.

After seeing the infographic quality, I was curious how far I could push the customization.

Results: Mixed.

Some slides nailed it.

They are visually appealing, have a compelling narrative and followed the prompt.

But there's a funny quirk where it blasted the "320x" bar completely out of frame trying to show relative scale. Data visualization got a bit wonky.

Also felt it started strong with data-heavy slides but got a bit generic toward the end. I wanted it to lean harder into the numbers throughout.

But here's the thing.

For fundraising decks, GTM docs, corporate presentations? NotebookLM is now better than Gamma in most cases.

Gamma charges money. NotebookLM is free, grounded in your actual sources, and produces comparable output in minutes. The customization works. The quality is there.

Mindmaps

If you want a high-level breakdown fast and are on-the-go, mindmaps are brilliant. Still covers key insights, visually easier to digest than walls of text.

Clean, structured, scannable. Does the job.

Video Overviews

For fun, I tested the video overview feature. Asked it to generate a brief in an anime-esque visual style.

It... took a few minutes.

Some snippets from the video. Reply "send" if you want to watch the whole thing.

What's wild is this: if someone figures out consistent sourcing, they could run an entire YouTube channel purely on NotebookLM's outputs. No video editor needed. Just feed it sources, customize the style, export.

Very unlike Google, but they are finally shipping features WITH UX in mind.

So noting some of my favorites here:

The Auto-Research Feature

Remember that 17-minute link-gathering problem from the start?

NotebookLM added fast and deep research modes. You tell it a topic, it sources for you. No more manual hunting.

I manually added one report, then let it expand automatically with additional sources.

Generated another infographic with all the new sources included.

Gets the job done. Not perfect, but it synthesizes multiple sources coherently. And it beats spending half an hour building a bibliography.

Another small but meaningful reason NotebookLM became my favorite tool:

Little touches that show someone's actually using this product internally. The UX feels thoughtful.

NotebookLM has such a wide range of use cases now that if you deliberately try to shoehorn it into any workflow, it'll probably fit.

What started as a student study tool (quizzes, flashcards, etc.) is now an all-rounder.

Research synthesis, presentation creation, content generation, visual analysis…it handles all of it reasonably well.

The fact that it's free while competing with paid tools like Gamma, Perplexity's research mode, and premium Canva features is ridiculous.

If you spend significant time on research, presentations, or content creation, this is worth trying.

So if you haven't yet 👇

Until next time,
Vaibhav 🤝🏻

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