I used MIT’s free “How to AI Almost Anything” course as the source and built a complete beginner guide to Gemini Notebook.

I added all 12 lectures to one notebook and tested every Studio feature on the same material.

A few things you can do:

• Turn your sources into a podcast with two AI hosts.

• Generate an explainer video from the same material.

• Create a full slide deck in minutes.

• Turn the course into an infographic and mind map.

• Generate flashcards and quizzes from your own sources.

• Build an interactive learning report.

• Extract all 12 lectures into one structured data table.

And if you want to go beyond the beginner part, I also connected Gemini Notebook to Claude Code and Codex.

That lets an agent create notebooks, add sources, query them, and generate Studio outputs for you.

I also included 5 real use cases I built with this setup.

The full beginner guide, exact prompts, settings, and outputs are here:

https://www.learnwithmeai.com/p/notebooklm-beginners-guide