Guides & insights.

NotebookLM can build a slide deck from your sources in seconds — but it leaves them trapped in a scroll view with a watermark in the corner. Premium Deck View turns them into a real, full-screen presentation. Here is how it works.

Record your ideas, save them directly to NotebookLM as an audio source. Here is everything you need to know — including free limits, Pro limits, and why 45 minutes is the magic number.

After dozens of back-and-forth messages with an AI assistant, you have produced something worth keeping. AI Conversation Save lets you bring that thinking into NotebookLM as a source.

Lock to page, global notes, saving to NotebookLM, the Copy button — a complete guide to the Notebook OS side panel note experience.

Notebook OS lets you search YouTube directly from the side panel and add video transcripts to your notebook without leaving NotebookLM.

A researcher's guide to Academic Search inside Notebook OS — how to frame queries, evaluate results, and build a solid source list for any project.

Installed Notebook OS and noticed many notebooks show no description? Here is exactly why this happens and the two ways to fix it.

A step-by-step guide to picking the right recipe for your research goal — and what happens under the hood when Notebook OS generates your artifact prompt.

A breakdown of Notebook OS's built-in prompt collection — what each category does, when to reach for it, and how to save your own.

How the Hygiene Filter works, what counts as a low-quality notebook, and how to use it to surface the notebooks that actually matter.

Library Map shows you clusters, overlaps, and gaps across your entire notebook collection — useful for identifying what to consolidate, archive, or expand.

Concept Map in the Studio panel extracts key ideas from your notebook sources and visualizes how they connect — useful for sense-making and presentation prep.

Folders are homes. Tags are signals. Library Map is the reality check. A practical system for managing a growing NotebookLM library without losing your mind.

A beginner's walkthrough of Notebook OS — what to set up first, what to try immediately, and the one thing most new users miss on day one.