Meetings & Notes

Google's NotebookLM is the easiest way to chat with your own documents — books, papers, meeting notes, research files. A practical tour of what it does, where it shines, and the four use cases worth setting up this week.

Nate Herk | AI Automation. Walks through a sequential multi-agent newsletter pipeline in n8n — planner, researchers, editor, headline writer — that takes a topic and audience as input and ships a sourced newsletter out the other end. The view count sits below the usual 100k bar, but on this niche (no-code multi-agent newsletter builds) it is the cleanest, most complete tutorial currently on YouTube and maps directly onto the briefing pattern in the article.

Matt Wolfe. Once you understand the basics, this is the right second video. Matt runs through a long list of less obvious uses — turning a book into a study guide, briefing yourself on a competitor from their content, generating mind maps from a folder of PDFs — that help you see how flexible the "grounded notebook" frame actually is.

Paul J Lipsky. A clean three-step framing — curate sources, ask the right questions, produce final outputs — that maps almost one-to-one onto how the article tells you to think about NotebookLM. Recent enough (early 2026) to match the current UI, including Studio, audio overviews, and mind maps.

Elegant Themes. Short overview of Otter as a standalone transcriber for people who don't live in Teams — Otter Pilot joining meetings on your behalf, calendar/Zoom integration, file uploads, and the free tier limits. Useful as a four-minute orientation before deciding which of the article's tools you want to actually try.

Scott Brant. A clean, end-to-end walkthrough of what the article describes: enable transcription, ask Copilot questions live, get an audio recap and a Word minutes document afterwards, and pull action items out into a follow-up workflow. Scott Brant is a Microsoft 365 educator who does this every week, and the demo is on a real meeting rather than a contrived one.