Adding Sources and Prompting
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What Is NotebookLM?
NotebookLM is Google's AI-powered research assistant, designed to help you organize, analyse, and interact with information from your own collection of sources. Instead of relying on general knowledge from across the web, NotebookLM answers questions using only the documents and resources you choose to include in a notebook.
This source-grounded approach greatly reduces the likelihood of inaccurate or fabricated information. Because Gemini bases its responses only on the approved sources in your notebook, NotebookLM is particularly well suited to research, studying, and creating new content from trusted reference materials.
Adding and Managing Sources
A notebook can contain many different types of sources, including:
- Google Drive files;
- PDFs;
- Websites;
- YouTube videos;
- Copied text.
You can continue adding or removing sources over time as your research develops, allowing each notebook to focus on a particular topic or project.
Asking Questions and Getting Citations
When you ask NotebookLM a question, Gemini searches only within the notebook's sources. If the available information is insufficient to answer your question, you can expand the notebook by adding additional sources related to that topic. NotebookLM also provides citations for its responses, allowing you to inspect the supporting source material and verify where the information came from.
By keeping Gemini grounded in a carefully selected collection of documents, NotebookLM provides a reliable environment for researching, studying, and generating content based on trusted information rather than unrestricted internet searches.
1. What does it mean that NotebookLM is source-grounded?
2. You ask NotebookLM a question, but it replies that there is not enough information in your notebook to answer it. What is the best next step?
3. Why are the citations provided by NotebookLM useful?
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Adding Sources and Prompting
What Is NotebookLM?
NotebookLM is Google's AI-powered research assistant, designed to help you organize, analyse, and interact with information from your own collection of sources. Instead of relying on general knowledge from across the web, NotebookLM answers questions using only the documents and resources you choose to include in a notebook.
This source-grounded approach greatly reduces the likelihood of inaccurate or fabricated information. Because Gemini bases its responses only on the approved sources in your notebook, NotebookLM is particularly well suited to research, studying, and creating new content from trusted reference materials.
Adding and Managing Sources
A notebook can contain many different types of sources, including:
- Google Drive files;
- PDFs;
- Websites;
- YouTube videos;
- Copied text.
You can continue adding or removing sources over time as your research develops, allowing each notebook to focus on a particular topic or project.
Asking Questions and Getting Citations
When you ask NotebookLM a question, Gemini searches only within the notebook's sources. If the available information is insufficient to answer your question, you can expand the notebook by adding additional sources related to that topic. NotebookLM also provides citations for its responses, allowing you to inspect the supporting source material and verify where the information came from.
By keeping Gemini grounded in a carefully selected collection of documents, NotebookLM provides a reliable environment for researching, studying, and generating content based on trusted information rather than unrestricted internet searches.
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