Working With NotebookLM

NotebookLM is a different kind of AI assistant: instead of answering from the open internet, it reasons only over the sources you give it. That single shift, source grounding, turns a general chatbot into a personal research assistant you can actually trust, because every answer traces back to your own documents.

This workshop moves from first setup to advanced workflows. You will build notebooks from trusted sources, interrogate them with Q&A and verify every answer through inline citations, and generate polished outputs, study guides, briefing notes, and podcast-style audio overviews, from material you already have.

Across two hands-on sessions, short demonstrations are paired with guided practice, and the series wraps with a bring-your-own-project capstone so you leave with a complete workflow applied to your real work, from raw documents to a finished, AI-assisted deliverable.

Participants will learn to:

• Build notebooks grounded in your own trusted sources, and understand how grounding differs from a general chatbot
• Interrogate your documents with effective Q&A, and verify every answer against the original text through inline citations
• Compare arguments and synthesize themes across multiple sources
• Generate polished outputs, study guides, FAQs, briefing docs, timelines, and audio overviews, from a single source set
• Curate notes to steer the AI's drafting toward exactly what you need
• Scale to large source sets and apply a complete, repeatable workflow to your own real-world project