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You can build your first Custom GPT end to end and judge which existing GPTs are actually worth adding to your toolkit.
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This NotebookLM + Perplexity Workflow Will Cut Your Research Time by 50% (or More)
Grace Leung. A more practical two-tool workflow: Perplexity for finding the documents and citations, NotebookLM for actually reading and synthesising them. Useful if your "long document" problem is really a "long stack of documents" problem — market research, regulatory filings, multi-source reports.
AI Expert note
Only reach for this when the problem is a stack of documents rather than one long one — for a single contract the primary pick's workflow is enough.
What you should get from this
You can chain Perplexity and NotebookLM into one research pipeline that finds sources and then reads and synthesises them.
Watch or know first
Know your way around NotebookLM first — the primary pick covers that.
Last reviewed: May 18, 2026
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