How do I use NotebookLM?
Visit notebooklm.google.com, sign in with a Google account, click Create New, and add sources (PDFs, URLs, YouTube videos, Google Docs, text). Then chat with the notebook to ask questions about your sources. Every answer includes inline citations linking back to the source passages.
In more detail
Step 1: sign in at notebooklm.google.com. Step 2: click Create New Notebook. Step 3: add 5-30 sources (PDFs, web URLs, YouTube transcripts, Google Docs, pasted text). Step 4: explore the auto-generated suggested questions or ask your own. Step 5: generate Studio artifacts (Audio Overview, Mind Map, Briefing Doc, Study Guide). Step 6: save useful chat responses as Notes within the notebook. To get sources into NotebookLM faster — especially from AI chats, YouTube, social media, and the web — install Notebook Toolkit, a Chrome extension that adds one-click capture from 30+ platforms.
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