Build a personal RAG: chat with your own documents (companion videos)

Tiago Forte

Tiago Forte, author of _Building a Second Brain_, demonstrates the product then called NotebookLM with notes, PDFs, and clippings. The useful pattern is selecting a bounded source set, asking document questions, inspecting linked passages, and deciding how the resulting artefacts fit into an existing knowledge workflow.

What you should get from this: Observe a source-based notebook workflow and identify the retrieval, citation, provenance, and permission checks needed before relying on it.

Watch or know first: Have a small set of notes, PDFs or transcripts you are allowed to upload to a third-party tool.

TheAIGRID

This older feature-first tour shows mixed-source uploads, single-source focus, briefing documents, and Audio Overviews in the interface available when it was recorded. It is useful for recognizing workflow components, not for confirming the current Gemini Notebook interface or feature availability.

What you should get from this: Identify the source-selection, question, generated-artefact, and citation-inspection stages in a hosted document assistant.

Watch or know first: Understand that selected sources are intended to guide the response, but retrieval and citation support still require testing.