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Master NotebookLM: The Ultimate in AI NoteTaking (2026)

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Overview

Utilise Googles AI Note taking tool to accelerate your learning and research, with YouTube, Chat GPT and more

What you'll learn:
  • Understand how to curate ideal sources to get the output you need
  • Understand the different sources you can use and how to link them
  • Understand how to create a AI driven and conversational audio overview of your content
  • Understand how to customise your AI overview to get to the answers you need
  • Understand how to customise and share your audio overviews
  • Understand how to Query your Audio content
  • Understand how to chat with your own personal AI for your linked content
  • Understand how to automatically create Briefing documents, Timelines, Study Guides and more

2026Edition! This course covers all the 2026 Updates to the tool!

UPDATE January 2025 - added quizzes across 4 sections to help embed your learning

UPDATE 2 January 2025 - added 3 new lectures! Overcoming source limits, analysing ebooks and how to create transcripts from your audio overviews

UPDATE February 2025 - 4 additional lectures added! Covering language translation, changing the default NotebookLM language, improving your CV and analysing CVs when recruiting

UPDATEMarch 2025 - 2 additional lectures added! Automatically finding data sources and generating mind maps within your notebooks

UPDATE September 2025 - 3 new lectures added! Blogging made easy, the new community driven Featured Notebooks and a revamped look for Studio
UPDATE October 2025 - 4 new lectures added! Creating Videos bases on your sources within NotebookLM, Creating CustomReports, the improved paid Notebook options and the ability to configure chats for better answers

UPDATEDecember 2025 - 3 new lectures added! NotebookLM on Mobile,the benefits of the new "Deep Research"feature and Flashcards, the perfect aid to learning any topic

This course has been created to help you become a Pro using Google NotebookLM, this AI driven note taking tool will accelerate your learning of any topic and do the work for you as it creates study guides, briefing documents and even conversational podcasts that help you learn.

UPDATE January 2026 - 3 MASSIVE new Lectures and an Update! - Significant new NotebookLM features covered, creating Ai driven Slide Decks, Infographics and Data Tables. Also revamped pricing lecture to reflect changes in NotebookLMs pricing model


Regardless of your industry this tool can help you in a profession and personal capacity. Helping you research any topic quickly and effectively, ensuring only the bits you really need to know are presented to you and allowing you to have a conversation with it your own personal AI!


Google NotebookLM is free to use, meaning it's the ultimate tool for anyone looking to learn almost anything, The use cases are endless!

- Researching for a job interview

- Studying for an exam

- Planning a backpacking holiday

- Brainstorming a new business idea

- Developing your career

- And much much more


This tool looks to solve the problem of too much data.There is data and information everywhere and it can be hard to find what you need in the time you have available. Google NotebookLM solves this problem in the easiest most user friendly way imaginable by giving you a simple interface to plug in all the content you don't have the time to analyse and then have a conversation with that content to get from it exactly what you need.


The course is structured around not only teaching you every element of the tool, but showing you what is possible through the various use cases we have prepared.


And what's more, we provide Quizzes and challenges to help encourage you to get using the tool directly yourself.


- Frequently Asked Questions


What is Google NotebookLM?

Google NotebookLM is a AI driven research and note taking tool, allowing you to link almost any web source to give you your own AI companion that you can ask questions to learn precisely what you need to know


How can the tool benefit me?

This is the big question, almost anyone could benefit form this tool, it just depends on what you want to learn about


Does this course contain everything I need to learn Google NotebookLM?

Yes, this course contains detailed steps to take you from being an absolute beginner in Notebook to an Expert. Including:

  • Finding the right sources

  • Linking sources

  • Creating study guides, timelines, briefing documents and more

  • Creating an audio podcast summarising and teaching you about your topic

  • Questioning your teacher live

  • Sharing your notebooks

  • Capturing valuable notes with AI

  • Advanced Google NotebookLM features


Ok, so there's a lot there, do I need to do everything in the course to be able to use Google NotebookLM?

No not at all, each lecture is bitesized only being a few minutes long each, allowing you to dip in and out and test what you have learned as you go along.With your lifetime access you can come back any time to pick up where you have left off, enjoy free new lectures or revisit old lectures to refresh your memory.


I'm stuck or have additional questions, can I ask a few things?

Of course, I created this course help anyone learn from this great tool. Please feel free to use the Q&A feature to reach out and I’ll answer any questions you may have.


What you can expect

  • Ongoing support with any questions and queries you may have

  • High quality lectures that you can take in or out of order to support your style of learning

  • Updates based on feedback and new developments withinGoogle NotebookLM


Syllabus

  • Introduction
  • Overview of GoogleLM Notebooks
  • Adding content through Sources
  • Chatting with NotebookLM
  • Studio
  • Notes
  • Use Cases for Google NotebookLM
  • Advanced and Bonus Features
  • Closing thoughts and next steps

Taught by

Alan Slater

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