Personal Knowledge Management

Organizing insights and ideas with NotebookLM

What is NotebookLM?

NotebookLM is Google's AI-powered note-taking and research assistant that helps you understand, connect, and generate insights from your personal knowledge base.

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Knowledge Organization Structure

Teaching

  • • Lecture notes
  • • Course ideas
  • • Student feedback
  • • Teaching resources

Research

  • • Paper summaries
  • • Research ideas
  • • Methodology notes
  • • Experiment results

Personal

  • • Quick insights
  • • Meeting notes
  • • Project plans
  • • Learning journal

How to Use NotebookLM Effectively

1 Upload Your Sources

Upload PDFs, documents, or paste text from research papers, meeting notes, articles, and books you're reading.

2 Ask Questions

Query your knowledge base with natural language questions. NotebookLM will synthesize answers from your sources.

"What are the main findings across all the papers I've uploaded about ML in healthcare?"

3 Generate Summaries

Automatically create summaries, study guides, and outlines from your documents.

4 Connect Ideas

Discover connections between different sources and identify recurring themes or contradictions.

5 Export & Share

Save generated notes, export summaries, and share insights with collaborators.

Sample NotebookLM Queries

Research Synthesis

"Compare the methodologies used in these three papers and identify which approach would be best for my healthcare AI project"

Concept Explanation

"Explain federated learning in simple terms based on the papers I've uploaded, and provide examples"

Gap Identification

"What research gaps exist in the current literature on AI for disease prediction?"

Citation Generation

"Create a literature review section summarizing these papers with proper citations"

Integration with Other AI Tools

NotebookLM + Perplexity

Use Perplexity to find papers → Upload to NotebookLM → Ask deep questions about the literature

NotebookLM + Gemini

Export NotebookLM summaries → Use Gemini to create presentations or expand ideas

NotebookLM + ChatGPT

Extract key insights from NotebookLM → Use ChatGPT to write detailed analyses or blog posts

NotebookLM + Cursor

Store code documentation in NotebookLM → Query best practices while coding in Cursor

Best Practices

  • Create separate notebooks for different projects or topics
  • Regularly upload new sources to keep your knowledge base current
  • Use descriptive titles and tags for easy retrieval
  • Ask follow-up questions to dig deeper into topics
  • Export important insights and save them externally
  • Review and clean up your notebooks quarterly