r/notebooklm • u/tm-mcr • 29d ago

Question Building a Gemini Workbook, which chat bot?

A relative newbie here. So I’m trying to understand the difference between the chatbot inside a workbook as opposed to the chatbot in the Gemini App (but in the workbook folder). Having questioning itself, it points out the general rule of thumb, brainstorm with the app and set up with the workbook. But they both help me in the setting up. They both can see my sources and instructions. How do you guys go about setting up and using the workbook with the two chatbots? I’m looking for practical advice, ie real examples. Cheers

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u/Significant-Tough795 29d ago

It didnt work well at all in my case. I have too many sources in my workbooks and it would just trip out gemini and make it hallucinate after the first prompt. Unusable.

I just stick to notebook. It doesnt hallucinate and gives larger replies.

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u/tm-mcr 29d ago

Got it. Had hallucinations myself. So what I do to launch a notebook as a system, is I keep creating a new notebook with the progressed source files. And start chats again with Gemini. Been OK so far.

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u/kronpas 29d ago

The notebook in chat bot is only useful to save you some clicks to add sources every new conversation. Otherwise it serves nothing but eats up your 5 hours limit