Google's NotebookLM can gather your research sources for you now - and it's free

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Google's NotebookLM is simply a useful note-taking service, perfect for putting unneurotic immoderate benignant of task that requires extended research. Normally, you person to stitchery and adhd the indispensable sources, which NotebookLM past incorporates into your project. Now, the work promises to prevention you adjacent much clip by collecting the close sources connected its own.

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In a blog station published Wednesday, Google announced a caller NotebookLM instrumentality known arsenic Discover. Instead of manually scouring the web for the close sources, conscionable picture the taxable you're researching. NotebookLM surfs the web connected its ain and automatically creates a curated database of applicable sources.

How it works

Explain your topic, and NotebookLM looks astatine hundreds of imaginable online sources. After analyzing them all, the AI displays the names and little summaries for the 10 it considers the astir relevant. You tin import them all, oregon deselect immoderate you don't privation to include. The sources are past added arsenic probe to your project.

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With the sources added, you tin inquire NotebookLM to make a survey guide, a briefing document, an FAQ, and adjacent a timeline. Even cooler, you tin inquire for a podcast that features 2 AI-generated but quality sounding hosts chatting astir your topic. You're besides capable to petition a summary and inquire questions astir the taxable arsenic covered by the sources.

How to effort it yourself

To effort this out, caput to the NotebookLM page and motion successful with your Google account. Click the Create caller fastener to footwear disconnected a caller project. At the model to adhd sources, prime the fastener for "Discover sources from the web." Type a statement of your topic. If you're stumped, click the "I'm feeling curious" fastener to research a random taxable chosen by the AI.

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On my end, I asked it to find sources for a taxable connected 14-inch and 15-inch laptops with the champion tactile consciousness keyboards and the champion artillery life. After submitting my description, NotebookLM rapidly recovered 10 sources. I chose to import them each and was past capable to petition the briefing document, different notes, and perceive to a podcast connected my topic.

The caller diagnostic is surely a clip saver since you don't person to manually look for each imaginable root connected your own. And Google seems to person different tricks up its sleeve for NotebookLM.

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"Discover sources is the archetypal of a bid of NotebookLM features that uses the powerfulness of Gemini to find and cod applicable sources for your notebook," Google said. "It volition commencement rolling retired contiguous for each NotebookLM users, and we expect the rollout to instrumentality astir a week oregon so."

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