What are NotebookLM's key features?
Source-grounded chat with inline citations, Audio Overviews (podcast-style summaries), Mind Maps, Briefing Docs, Study Guides, Timelines, FAQs, Notes, and shared notebooks (Plus tier). Up to 300 sources per notebook (1,500 on Plus).
In more detail
Core: source-grounded chat with citations to specific passages. Studio panel artifacts: Audio Overviews (10-30 min podcast format), Mind Maps (visual concept maps), Briefing Docs (structured summaries), Study Guides (Q&A for review), Timelines (chronological events), FAQs (anticipated questions). Notes save useful chat responses as internal sources. Source ingestion: PDFs, web URLs, YouTube, Google Docs, audio files, pasted text. Plus tier adds Audio Overview customization, premium models, shared notebooks, 5x higher limits.
Get one-click capture for NotebookLM
Notebook Toolkit saves ChatGPT, Claude, YouTube, Reddit, and any web page to NotebookLM in one click. Free to install.
Install Notebook Toolkit