When I was in high school, there were subjects that you couldn’t pay me to study, such as math or government. I can’t help but think about how different it might be if I had something similar notebook Can help me care and research those topics that I actively avoid. This might make me a better student.
notebook Is a reliable AI research assistant, and it is indeed a tool for students. What distinguishes it from other AI tools is that it does not get random information from the Internet or potentially unreliable training data. Instead, it uses any material you provide: notes you enter yourself during class, PDFs provided by your teacher, or even recordings of lectures. NoteBookLM will take the material you feed and turn it into the format that best suits your learning style.
By using only the sources you provide, the laptop’s answers are more focused – and not from random reddit threads, just like other AI tools you use chatgpt. If you’re new to Note Bookbooklm and want to get used to it, here’s a list of essential features for the upcoming school year.
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Why do you need a laptop?
I’ve explained what most notebooks do and why this is mine Favorite AI tool ever. As a student, this is a game-changer for me. Seeing information provided in many ways can help me grasp the most difficult topics – I suspect I am alone here.
Because NotesbookLM only relies on the information you provide, it will be more reliable. When using a chatbot like Gemini to search the corners of the Internet for answers, you may get hallucinations, and there is much less specific output.
That said, you should always double-check the answers provided by AI. However, it can be comforting to know exactly where NoteBookLM is being used, especially if you try to learn something like school exams. Having these guardrails gives you peace of mind.
Learn about your work with study guides, schedules and mind maps
NoteBookLM’s most interesting features are hidden in its studio pane where you can find study guides, schedules, and mind maps, a tool to better understand school work.
Study guides are almost what they sound like, and can focus on perspectives from sources. How to provide a study guide will depend on the material you provide, although terms and quiz tables are often present. Sometimes, you will receive paper questions in your study guide, along with a general overview of key points.
Schedule can be a useful tool for breaking down event chronology, providing a field-by-field breakdown for specific topics. This depends to a lot on whether your original material provides such information. The schedule may be great for collecting and understanding all the activity parts of the next book report.
To make your resources final segmentation, Mind Map will create an interactive map that gives you insight into the details of the source. When I tested this with 1,500 words from Homer’s Odyssey, the laptop broke the main events and themes of the text, and in some cases the single line in the text to illustrate the importance of further exploration.
Flashcards and quizzes
NotebookLM’s latest addition is Flashcards and quizzes.
Flashcards are best for remembering core concepts, people and dates. But, ultimately, they can be used as you see fit. You can customize how many flashcards you generate and the difficulty of the problem. If you want to focus on just one specific part of the upload source, you can create these instructions in your custom settings.
For more traditional tests of knowledge, try the quiz. Previously, some study guides would include quizzes, but the new features were fully interactive, and you can set the number of questions and difficulty levels, just like flashcards.
Audio and video overview
Not every student learns in the same way. Some can better absorb information by reading it, while others can be better when they hear it or see it in a more visual way. NoteBookLM has lowered this part and can only get better.
If you need to test or don’t know your study notes, an audio or video overview may be what you need. Audio Overview will use two AI hosts to create a podcast-like audio experience that will sneak into your source. You can customize your audio experience by providing specific parts focused on the source so that you can skip the parts you know and learn what matters most. Most importantly, the audio overview is fully interactive, allowing you to join the conversation and ask specific questions or clarify further. This alone can be a powerful tool to understand any task.
Visual learners can choose from a newer video overview option that provides a narrative slide-like summary of the current form. When the announcement was announced, Google mentioned the laptop’s slide narrative The “first” type of format is the video overviewwhich makes us happy to see what else might appear in this feature.
Talk with Gemini
After seeing everything NoteBookLM can do, its simplest and most obvious features are easily overlooked. Powering the entire AI tool is Geminiwhile it’s busy generating all the cool extras for you for your Studios tab, sometimes you just need a quick chat.
After uploading the source to NotebookLM, Gemini will outline what you provide in the chat pane. If you have specific questions about the material, just ask Gemini and it will find its stuff from your source and break it down for you.
Change Gemini’s response tone and delivery
Even better, Google has introduced a new feature of chat in NotebookLM, which allows you to set up the way chats respond, just like how you can handle it now Adjust the tone of the audio overview. You can make chats respond to you as an analyst, study guide, or you can create custom response types.
I added that to test the difference of custom responses, “custom styles so that I can respond from a very critical teacher, if I imperfectly identify all the important parts, then I will let me down in the book report.” Wow – Gemini delivers here.
After setting up a custom chat response style in my favorite notebook to test, about 1500 Odyssey from Homer as the only source, I asked, “Why does Neptune express anger at Jove?” The response returned was long and thorough, with the custom tone obvious.
Here are the first few lines in the answer:
“Well, let’s dissect this, because the surface answer here will be a catastrophic lapse. You need to express precisely Why Neptune is so angry, not just a blurred gesture. The source is clear, so there is no excuse for missing tags.
“Neptune expressed his anger at Jove for several key reasons, all stemming from the phaeacians’ behavior towards Ulysses’ return. If you don’t include all of this, consider that this article has failed.”
So if you do better under pressure or need a laptop to provide a specific type of motivation, it can now.
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