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Before You Join
Come ready. It saves you the first ten minutes.
A few quick things to have in place before 10AM ET so you can follow along live instead of setting up while everyone else gets going.
Pre-class checklist
Tap to tick these off — they save on this device
Sign in to your Google account at notebooklm.google.com.
Gather 2–3 documents from one project — a proposal PDF, a spec sheet, meeting notes.
Pick the project with the most scattered information.
Keep those files somewhere you can grab them fast.
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The Live Session · 10:00 AM – 12:20 PM ET
Four 20-minute skills. Quick, hands-on, do-it-with-me.
Each block is one focused skill with steps you do as we go — a "Try It" break follows each. Tap a session to open it, then check off steps as you complete them. Your progress saves right here on this device.
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10:0020 MIN
Session 1
What Is NotebookLM and Why It Matters
Do it with me — step by step
- See what NotebookLM does and who it is for.
- Create your first notebook at notebooklm.google.com.
- Tour the interface: sources panel, chat panel, audio overview.
- Understand how it differs from Gemini chat and Google search.
Try It
Create a new notebook and name it after a current project you are working on.
10:4020 MIN
Session 2
Upload Documents and Start Querying
Do it with me — step by step
- See what you can upload: PDFs, Google Docs, websites, YouTube, audio.
- Upload your first source document.
- Ask NotebookLM questions about your uploaded content.
- Follow its citations back to the exact source line.
- Learn the limits: file sizes and number of sources.
Try It
Upload 1–2 documents — a proposal, a spec sheet, meeting notes — and ask it 3 questions about the content.
11:2020 MIN
Session 3
Build a Research Notebook for a Real Project
Do it with me — step by step
- Add multiple sources to build a real knowledge base.
- Combine documents, web pages, and media in one notebook.
- Summarize, compare, and extract across every source at once.
- Generate an audio overview (the "podcast") from your documents.
Try It
Add at least 3 more sources, ask for a summary of the key themes across all of them, then generate an audio overview.
12:0020 MIN
Session 4
Apply It to Your Business
Do it with me — step by step
- Use NotebookLM for client onboarding — upload everything about a project.
- Build a "project brain" you can query anytime.
- Share notebooks with team members.
- Know when to use NotebookLM vs. Perplexity vs. Claude.
Try It
Pick the project with your most scattered information and start that notebook now. Upload what you can in 20 minutes.