Don’t use NotebookLM only to consume others’ ideas. Use it to clarify and compress your own thinking so that you can present it better.

A lot of people use NotebookLM only for consumption. Drop in a paper, get a summary, maybe a video or slides.

But where NotebookLM really shines is creation.

A friend showed me his workflow around using NotebookLM to produce the first version of anything he needs to explain. He’ll drop in his notes, drafts, and prototypes, and NotebookLM gives him a tight five mins video brief that he refines to come up with the final output that he presents to his CXO.

I have started doing the same. I had a long manifesto for my startup and wanted to turn it into a short elevator pitch. NotebookLM compressed it perfectly and gave me a clean base to iterate from.