You can interact with your sources by writing questions or instructions into the chat box. Click the arrow or type the Enter key to send your question.
Things to try:
- Ask NotebookLM any question about the information in your sources, and it will respond with an answer along with citations from the documents you've uploaded. Clicking on a citation will take you directly to the original passage in the source to show you what NotebookLM based its answer on. Some examples:
- Upload meeting notes and ask it to “summarize all the discussion of 2024 marketing budgets"
- Upload a scientific article about neuroscience and tell NotebookLM to “create a glossary of key terms related to dopamine”
- Upload a set of notes about an historical figure like Grace Hopper and ask, “What were some of Hopper’s contributions to computer science?”
- NotebookLM is not just limited to factual queries. You can also get creative with it. For example:
- Upload a draft of a short story and tell it to “suggest ideas for a new character I could add to this narrative”
- Upload a business plan and get NotebookLM to “suggest three new features for this product”
- Upload the draft of a blog post and ask, “What are three titles/subtitles for this post?”
When asking questions, you can control which sources are used by NotebookLM to create the response. In the source viewer, check the box for the sources you’d like to use for your next query. The prompt bar keeps count of how many sources are being used for responses.