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01. Google NotebookLM Overview
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Ever feel overwhelmed by piles of documents, reports, or articles? Wish you had a super-smart assistant to help you make sense of it all? Enter Google NotebookLM—an innovative AI tool form Google that could change the way you work. Instead of spending hours sifting through documents, get instant summaries, key insights, and answers to your questions.
Key Feature: Source-Grounded Responses
Google NotebookLM offers a significant benefit over general AI chatbots like ChatGPT: its ability to provide answers directly and only from your uploaded documents, ensuring accuracy and preventing hallucinations.
Google NotebookLM vs. ChatGPT
The table below highlights the key differences between Google NotebookLM and general AI chatbots like ChatGPT.
Feature | Google NotebookLM | General AI Chatbots e.g. ChatGPT |
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Primary Focus | In-depth understanding, analysis, and synthesis of user-uploaded documents. | Broad general knowledge, creative content generation, and conversational AI. |
Source Grounding | Directly grounded in user-uploaded documents (PDFs, Docs, text, videos, URLs). Responses are based on these sources. | Primarily relies on its vast general training data. Can process uploaded files with plugins/advanced features, but grounding isn't its core. |
Multi-Document Handling | Designed to analyze and synthesize information across multiple documents (up to 50 per notebook). | Can handle multiple documents with specific instructions but isn't inherently optimized for cross-document analysis. |
Citations | Often provides inline citations linking directly to the source text in uploaded documents. | Typically does not provide direct, inline citations back to specific sections of user-uploaded documents. |
Organization | Uses "notebooks" to organize work around specific sets of source documents. | Primarily a conversational interface without a built-in project/document organization system. |
Note-Taking Features | Offers AI-powered note-taking, organization, and transformation of AI responses into structured formats. | Primarily focuses on generating text-based responses; note-taking and organization are not core features. |
Audio Summaries | Can generate podcast-style audio overviews of documents with interactive elements (beta). | Does not have a native feature to generate engaging, multi-voice audio summaries of documents. |
Suggested Actions | Proactively suggests questions and highlights potential insights from your documents. | Relies on user prompts for interaction and doesn't inherently offer proactive suggestions based on uploaded documents. |
Mind Map Generation | Can generate mind maps from source materials for visual exploration. | Does not have a native mind map generation feature. |
Ideal Use Case | Research, learning from specific materials, literature reviews, knowledge management for projects. | General question answering, creative writing, coding assistance, brainstorming, conversational tasks. |
Getting Started in 3 Steps
- Create a Notebook: Start at a new notebook.
- Add Sources: Drag-and-drop your documents into the notebook
- Engage the AI: Ask questions, request summaries, or brainstorm ideas.
Use Cases
Here are some common use cases for Google NotebookLM.
Google AI Studio Image Editing
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You can now easily edit images using Google AI Studio. No photoshop required!
Getting Started
- Go to https://aistudio.google.com/
- Under "Run Settings" on the right, make sure you select Gemini 2.0 Flash (Image Generation) Experimental:
- You are now ready to play with the Google AI Studio - Image Editing!
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ChatGPT-4o Image Generation
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Released on March 25, 2025
OpenAI released 4o Image Generation on March 25, 2025 with really exciting image capabilities.
Note that this feature is now available even for free users. However, do take note that you can only generate between 1 to 3 images per day.
Getting Started
- Go to https://chatgpt.com/
- For Plus user, make sure you select ChatGPT-4o at the top:
- You are now ready to play with the ChatGPT-4o Image Generation!
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How to copy data from an invoice in PDF using UiPath Clipboard AI
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This article shows you how to copy data from an invoice in PDF into an Excel spreadsheet.
Problem
- You have the following invoice in PDF:
- You want to copy the information from the invoice into an Excel spreadsheet:
Read more: How to copy data from an invoice in PDF using UiPath Clipboard AI
How to Populate form from Excel using UiPath Clipboard AI
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This article shows you how to easily populate form from a list of data in Excel.
Problem
- You have a list of data in Excel.
- You need to populate these rows of data one by one into the following form:
Read more: How to Populate form from Excel using UiPath Clipboard AI
How to setup Ollama on Windows
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Download and Install
- Go to: https://ollama.com/download
- Ollama now supports 3 platforms - MacOS, Linux and Windows. Click the one for your platform.