NotebookLM is an AI-powered collaborator that helps you do your best thinking. After uploading your documents, NotebookLM becomes an instant expert in those sources so you can read, take notes, and collaborate with it to refine and organize your ideas.
NotebookLM Plus gives you everything already included with NotebookLM, and also higher utilization limits, access to premium features, and additional sharing options and analytics.
Create a notebook
Create notebooks by uploading your sources in various formats (like Google Docs and slides, PDFs, web URLs, copied text, YouTube URLs). You can then ask questions about the information in your sources and NotebookLM will respond with an answer and inline citations. These citations show you where in the sources the answer is based on.
You can also use NotebookLM to generate a variety of content based on your sources, like summaries, briefing docs, timelines, FAQs, study guides, and audio overviews.
- On your computer, open NotebookLM
- Click on + Add Source in the left panel
- Choose the sources that you want to upload for your notebook. Learn how to upload sources
- Click Insert
- Start collaborating with NotebookLM
- View an automatically generated summary of all your sources in the center of the screen
- Ask questions about your sources by typing at the bottom of the screen. Learn more on how to ask questions
- Use the Studio panel on the right to create outputs grounded in your sources:
- Create an audio overview. Learn more about audio overviews
- Create an FAQ, study guide, table of contents, timeline, or briefing document.
- Add notes to your notebook. Learn more about notes
- Add or delete sources in your notebook.
Compare NotebookLM and NotebookLM Plus
NotebookLM
You can use NotebookLM with your Google account if you’re over 18, and are located in one of these 200+ regions.
NotebookLM Plus
Learn more about NotebookLM Plus and how to get it.