35+ INSANE Ways To Use NotebookLM (For FREE)

28 minutesBeginnerAI Productivity

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.

AI Expert note

Idea lists can encourage over-uploading. Keep the source-grounding pattern, but classify documents first and avoid sensitive client, HR, legal or credential material unless the workspace controls are approved.

What you should get from this

Expand NotebookLM from a summarizer into a repeatable research and learning workflow.

Watch or know first

Watch a basic NotebookLM walkthrough first.

Watch next

Continue through the same learning path with the next curated companion videos.

Related videos

Take it further

Hand-picked external courses that go deeper on this topic.

See all courses for AI Productivity