How to use Google’s genAI-powered note-taking app

Computerworld February 15, 2024
Howard Wen

Google’s experimental NotebookLM lacks many of the features of more established notes apps, but its generative AI core gives it analysis and summarization superpowers.

Among the experimental tools that Google offers is NotebookLM, a bare-bones notes app that you use in your web browser. What makes it interesting is that it uses Google’s generative AI chatbot (variously known as Bard or Duet AI and now rebranded as Gemini) to analyze sources of text that you “feed” it, and then generate notes based on the information in them.

Here are some scenarios where you might want to use NotebookLM:

• To turn the contents of a long document into a brief summary.
• To extract insights from several documents that cover a...

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