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Designing NotebookLM

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Re: Designing NotebookLM

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Post by typpilol »

epolanski wrote: post #44
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…

Really disliked the author's tone: "me, me, me, me, me, me. Also somebody promote me." All this paragraphs telling us what a great job he's done and this charlatan's product (with great potential)...doesn't even save your chats. So you start discussing about something in your notes, come back and...the messages are gone. But sure come tell me what a genius you are with your 3 column layout. Charlatans, and those peop…

Lmao this is my feeling as well.

Why is a 3 panel layout new?

Isn't vscode essentially that?

Re: Designing NotebookLM

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Post by typpilol »

ahmedfromtunis wrote: post #56
jayspiel wrote: post #48

This is my website! I love seeing everyone’s perspective, design is all about iteration and constant evolution. I have no doubt NLM will continue to evolve and change. I feel immensely lucky to have been there towards the beginning of that evolution. As I designer I was trying to skate to where the puck was going technically. We’d get some insight on what was coming from the model side and we’d try to build UI around…

Hi, there's a bug on your website. Apparently it advertises to browsers and other extensions that it has dark mode activated when it's actually not, which prevents them from applying the appropriate theme.

That's a webdev trick for forcing light mode lol

Re: Designing NotebookLM

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Post by typpilol »

timminkov wrote: post #58
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 use it for asking questions about a specific board games. It is INVALUABLE for learning very complex games. Instead of hunting through a rulebook trying to find an obscure rule, I just ask it and it answers, citing where it finds it.

Are you telling me Claude code or something couldn't do this easily too?

Re: Designing NotebookLM

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Post by typpilol »

mapmeld wrote: post #59
nextworddev wrote: post #23

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

I was putting together an essay/podcast about a news event in another country, and I was able to collect multiple YouTube videos, search and translate their transcripts, and ask questions like 'is this the video where someone talks about _?'

Copilot built into Ms edge can do this?

Re: Designing NotebookLM

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Post by mockingloris »

jayspiel wrote: post #48

This is my website! I love seeing everyone’s perspective, design is all about iteration and constant evolution. I have no doubt NLM will continue to evolve and change. I feel immensely lucky to have been there towards the beginning of that evolution. As I designer I was trying to skate to where the puck was going technically. We’d get some insight on what was coming from the model side and we’d try to build UI around…

@jayspiel

> As A designer I was trying to skate to where the puck was going technically.

Resonates big time! At the end of the day, this isn't a full-proof science - it's an art. Req-con-fin(Requires continuous finessing).

I also assume, the project revolved around many roles and as you mentioned, the project was iteratively built around user feedback.

NLM disrupted the space and I know just like with the early days of bard/gemini this will only get insanely better; UI/UX especially.

Dey Well

Re: Designing NotebookLM

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Post by doug_durham »

I have never understood the distinction between "Chat" and "Studio". I can to the same things in both places for the most part. I find I spend all of my time in Chat and then wonder if I'm supposed to be doing things in "Studio". I just find myself hiding it for the most part.

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Post by Syntaf »

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.

The podcasts feature is primarily why I love NLM!

I try starting my morning with learning, lately having a podcast to listen to while I start my day has been awesome.

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Post by mizzao »

jayspiel wrote: post #48

This is my website! I love seeing everyone’s perspective, design is all about iteration and constant evolution. I have no doubt NLM will continue to evolve and change. I feel immensely lucky to have been there towards the beginning of that evolution. As I designer I was trying to skate to where the puck was going technically. We’d get some insight on what was coming from the model side and we’d try to build UI around…

Just for my curiosity: are there any limitations to what Google IP you can write about in public like this?

Re: Designing NotebookLM

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Post by geniium »

mizzao wrote: post #69
jayspiel wrote: post #48

This is my website! I love seeing everyone’s perspective, design is all about iteration and constant evolution. I have no doubt NLM will continue to evolve and change. I feel immensely lucky to have been there towards the beginning of that evolution. As I designer I was trying to skate to where the puck was going technically. We’d get some insight on what was coming from the model side and we’d try to build UI around…

Just for my curiosity: are there any limitations to what Google IP you can write about in public like this?

I was wondering about this question as well.

Are u authorized to share all this IP?

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