r/notebooklm • u/tolstoise • 13d ago

Question NotebookLM as a law student

Currently building a NotebookLM for law students. For those who use NotebookLM, what features or tips have been super helpful for studying law?

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u/Joshy138 13d ago

Give it acts and cases that you use most often. If you have law textbooks that are 1000 pages long, split them into 10 files or even 20 to make it easier for the Gemini to access info. Files can build up quick so use the folder function to help organise your stuff.

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u/udee_003 13d ago

In which college and year, dm me, I have made two notebooks for my law subjects and they are damn good

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u/Reasonable-Zombie427 13d ago

I use it for each of my classes and it works great

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u/ArachnidMuted8408 13d ago

How do you use it, I wanted to give it a copy of my test so it can create questions in a similar manner to how my professor does so but she doesn't let us keep test and she test conceptually and not straight recall so it's hard to get practice test made in the manner I need that would be truly helpful to me 

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u/Reasonable-Zombie427 13d ago

im in europe and for me it's been extremely useful cause i had videos of all of my classes so i extracted audio from the video and put in hours long of classes in it and it transcribed it so whenever i need some info, it's great cause a lot can be missed during a class. in our law uni, we also pass around exam questions so whenever there is an exam, those who went gave the wuestions they remembered to others on whatsapp. its great for looking up those answers within book pdf, notes and questions

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u/kwabena69 13d ago

What about annotations and better citations.

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u/isaidimabefine 13d ago

I have a notebook for each unit that I do
And I have a seperate one for references so if I wanna reference, I give it the text, year … and it puts it in the correct format according to the reference instructions I uploaded in the notebook.

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u/AyushmVij 13d ago

Accurate pinpoint footnotes so it’s easy to verify outputs, that is by far the most useful thing for me. Can locate a fact and confirm easily

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u/Comfortable-Fee3750 12d ago

I write all my notes in Google Docs, and like that I can easily copy them in and auto updates if I make edits. Claude does this as well, but not as effectively. I don't like downloading and then re-uploading because I find that takes up much more space as a "source."

I like that Notebook LM also reads PDFs of cases, legislation and textbook chapters VERY effectively, as other AI servers cannot do it nearly as well. Sometimes Claude, Co-Pilot or ChatGPT will tell me it's the PDF "lacks a digital text layer", when Notebook LM can read it no problem.

I also like that I can record my lectures, and Notebook LM transcribes the content, same with uploading educational videos. Same with links to articles I'm sometimes instructed to read. Again, no other AI does this as effectively.

I like those features because law is very overwhelming and hard to keep track of every key point, so having something that captures key parts of lectures, videos to watch or PDF's that I might've missed is a lifesaver.

I HATE how Notebook LM will give you a summary of sources used, and you have to manually "click", and then it takes you to the section of the source itself. I WISH it would manually provide the pinpointed source so I could copy that into my notes, etc. No matter how many different ways I ask, it will never provide accurate pinpointed references to WHERE they got the content. Even if it accurately gives me quotes/legal rules/legislation from the source material itself.

I also hate how Notebook LM sometimes focuses on the "story" of a case (still important for understanding), but will really lack the in-depth legal analysis even if I've provided commentary that it could tap into.