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Designing NotebookLM

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Re: Designing NotebookLM

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Post by chatmasta »

scarface_74 wrote: post #18
SubiculumCode wrote: post #3

I'm curious from people who use it regularly. What do you use it for? Aside from audio overviews, what does it do better for you compared to vanilla chat interfaces or docs integration?

I am a post sales consultant. Meaning I’m the first deeply technical person that a client talks to after they sign the contract that pre-sales has worked on. Pre-sales has already had a couple of meetings by the time it gets to me. I put the transcripts of their calls and the contract (statement of work) into Notebook LLM to ask the high level questions like the objectives, the challenges, priorities, risks they have…

Wait until you find out that the client who signed the contract, the lawyers who wrote it, the pre-sales who designed it, and the account executive who started it… also all used NotebookLM for their stage of the deal.

(btw, it’s “NotebookLM” – one “L” – not “Notebook LLM”)

Re: Designing NotebookLM

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Post by hek2sch »

SubiculumCode wrote: post #10
tetrisgm wrote: post #6

I don't care much for NotebookLM's UX. I find the layout confusing, the concepts conveyed in the UI not very intuitive. I feel like the power of what's under the hood doesn't translate very well into the frontend. That said, this article was a very nice overview. Clean page, interesting to see his perspective. He clearly took tare and thought about the project. I don't agree with his conclusions and results, but that…

Do you use an alternative? I haven't explored the space much.

leshokunin is right. there’s not at all many close app to it. Among few I could find nouswise very close and having a note driven design was a plus for me. Idk how this feels like for you.

Re: Designing NotebookLM

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Post by picardo »

SubiculumCode wrote: post #3

I'm curious from people who use it regularly. What do you use it for? Aside from audio overviews, what does it do better for you compared to vanilla chat interfaces or docs integration?

Video explainers, for me, are better than the audio overviews.

Re: Designing NotebookLM

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Post by nextworddev »

hrpnk wrote: post #27
nextworddev wrote: post #23

I stopped using NotebookLM after one use. Not sure what’s the fuss aside from the podcast generation gimmick

When working with documents, the citations that NotebookLM provide increase the confidence in answers. This allows to use NotebookLM for team-level knowledge bases.

U can do that with chatgpt which preceded notebooklm

Re: Designing NotebookLM

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Post by 3shv »

ashwindharne wrote: post #7

This post has the same issues as NotebookLM for me -- overdesigned, overengineered for what at its core is a simple and valuable UX. NotebookLM: obviously useful, but I just wanna select some files and chat w/ them or have them summarized for me. It's got low info density, way too many cards/buttons/sections/icons, and it makes the core UX really difficult for me to navigate. This post: I wanted to know what cool tho…

It's written for people to see, not to read I guess.

Re: Designing NotebookLM

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Post by pqs »

cube2222 wrote: post #29

As a non-user who just played with the podcast thing a while back, is notebooklm actually better than just using something like Claude Projects to dump all your files into it, and then chatting with it in that project? Other than the podcast thing of course which is unique. Mostly curious about perspectives of folks who used both and can compare them.

I came here to say exactly the same thing. Now the I have Claude Code and Codex CLI I just creat a folder with all the documents I need and I work from there.

Re: Designing NotebookLM

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Post by John2022 »

ashwindharne wrote: post #7

This post has the same issues as NotebookLM for me -- overdesigned, overengineered for what at its core is a simple and valuable UX. NotebookLM: obviously useful, but I just wanna select some files and chat w/ them or have them summarized for me. It's got low info density, way too many cards/buttons/sections/icons, and it makes the core UX really difficult for me to navigate. This post: I wanted to know what cool tho…

Surely there’s a German word for this - framing a weakness as if it contributed to the success.

I’ve seen it in so many talks, especially from people working in big tech. Something is a success in spite of some aspect of it, and those responsible for that aspect go on speaking tours about their journey and what we mere mortals can learn from them.

Re: Designing NotebookLM

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Post by causality0 »

I really wish NotebookLM would hurry up and open a payment tier where they don't harvest your data. We'd love to deploy it across our org but control of sensitive information is a requirement.

Re: Designing NotebookLM

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Post by canadiantim »

John2022 wrote: post #38
ashwindharne wrote: post #7

This post has the same issues as NotebookLM for me -- overdesigned, overengineered for what at its core is a simple and valuable UX. NotebookLM: obviously useful, but I just wanna select some files and chat w/ them or have them summarized for me. It's got low info density, way too many cards/buttons/sections/icons, and it makes the core UX really difficult for me to navigate. This post: I wanted to know what cool tho…

Surely there’s a German word for this - framing a weakness as if it contributed to the success. I’ve seen it in so many talks, especially from people working in big tech. Something is a success in spite of some aspect of it, and those responsible for that aspect go on speaking tours about their journey and what we mere mortals can learn from them.

Well, not German but there is the tale of the fox who lost its tail and framed it as a good thing
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