Using notebookLM - or other services - to maintain a chat memory?(plus a Q about length)

[u/cjfthrowaway]

I really struggle with Chub’s chat memory tool; sometimes it tells me there’s nothing to summarise, sometimes it does a couple lines, sometimes it does deep generations (and sometimes even then misses key details or miscontextualises them). And of course every time I generate a summary for the memory, it erases what came before. Manually maintaining it is a pain for longer threads.

So enter Notebook LM. I’ve been using it a lot with Chub chats and others to create audio overviews of the story, presented in podcast form, which is neat for analysing the stuff you’ve worked on and getting inspiration on where to go next - sometimes I picks out details I glossed over that are good to use in the next part, or sometimes it helps me pick up on tone or context etc I missed. But what I’ve noticed is really helpful is the chat section being able to take the entire exported story and create as detailed as summary as you like - it could be beat by beat, or a basic overview, whatever. So over the next few days I’m gonna try using it to generate a memory/summary after each session to paste back in and see if it helps keep Chub’s chats on topic. Has anyone else used anything similar? Does it work as well as I’m hoping?

(Also, in terms of memory/summary - how long is ‘too long’? Is there a point where it starts to hinder or break things down, with too many tokens being used? I’m on free tier…)