NotebookLM

FIRST-HAND READS

What people reported, in their own words. Every line links to where it was said.

• “the problem with NotebookLM is that it doesn't cover everything”

  NEGATIVE · features · Reddit · 2026-08-14

• “NotebookLM is something which more than one of us uses everyday”

  POSITIVE · Hacker News · 2025-12-03

• “I like the fact that everything that NotebookLM outputs has curations from the source material.”

  POSITIVE · features · Hacker News · 2025-09-20

• “Die KI (NotebookLM) hat mir beim paraphrasieren von Inhalten aus den Quellen für die Zusammenfassung geholfen. NotebookLM gibt dann immer die Referenzen an mit Seitenzahl. Diese Angaben konnte ich dann nutzen.”

  POSITIVE · features · Reddit · 2025-05-19

• “NotebookLM's podcast feature invaluable for reviewing and refining my work, as well as discovering new ideas along the way”

  POSITIVE · features · Reddit · 2025-05-16

• “I'd then put that transcript in Google NotebookLM and it would give me an amazing summary, highlights, an outline, and a great audio summary!”

  POSITIVE · features · Reddit · 2025-03-01

• “I love [Google NotebookLm](https://notebooklm.google/?gad_source=1&gclid=CjwKCAiAiOa9BhBqEiwABCdG8z5hfKmUPjN16xGP3JKgcO7KWlzT7UB5BA2Frrt6LAr6NPYAj7sT4hoCC0cQAvD_BwE) as well! It allows me to upload pdf chapters of textbooks and gives not only a great chapter summary, but a really great study outline as well.”

  POSITIVE · features · Reddit · 2025-02-22

• “NotebookLM actually comes up with some good questions I didn't think about when doing discovery with a client”

  POSITIVE · features · Hacker News · 2025-02-15

• “I loaded them all up into NotebookLM. I started asking it questions after uploading it all to NotebookLM like I would if I were starting from scratch with a customer. It answered the questions with citations.”

  POSITIVE · features · Hacker News · 2025-01-04