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 on paid Google plans. The standard service supports up to 50 sources per notebook.
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. Paid Google AI plans add Audio Overview customization, premium models, shared notebooks, and higher limits (Google AI Pro, for example, allows 300 sources per notebook and 4x the standard usage limit).
Get one-click capture for NotebookLM
Gemini Notebook Toolkit saves ChatGPT, Claude, YouTube, Reddit, and any web page to NotebookLM in one click. Free to install.
Install Gemini Notebook Toolkit