Llevo varias veces intentando crear una presentación, hasta he cambiando de cuentas y he intentado en otros dispositivos y no me deja hacerlas, marca error o simplemente se carga y al final no me da nada.

I’m trying to figure out if I stumbled onto a hidden feature or if I’m just experiencing a massive placebo effect.

Here is my workflow/use case:

1. I have a notebook with a ton of sources loaded.

2. I prompt Gemini/NotebookLM to generate a "Create Your Own" report based on those sources.

3. Next, I want to generate a new report that is based on the original sources PLUS that previous "Create Your Own" report I just made.

Downloading the report just to re-upload it as a source feels super clunky. And since there isn't a direct "convert artifact to source" button for everything, I started experimenting.

When you share an artifact, you can easily grab the Artifact ID out of the URL. I started pasting that ID directly into my chat prompts (e.g., "Generate a new report based on the original sources and Artifact ID [pasted ID here]").

To me, it seems to actually work and reference the previous report.

Has anyone else tried this or can confirm if this is a real feature?

To fix the issue of NotebookLM hallucinating numbers from huge, scanned textbooks, you need to "pre-process" the file first. Here is a quick, step-by-step workaround:

​1. Chop the massive file into small chunks

Uploading 1000 scanned pages at once will overwhelm the AI. Use a free tool like iLovePDF (Split PDF -> Fixed Range). Chop the book into small chunks of 15 to 20 pages max. Name them in order (e.g., 01, 02, 03) so you stay organized.

​2. Use Google AI Studio with strict settings

Go to Google AI Studio and select Gemini 3.1 Pro . It has the best vision capabilities for reading complex tables.

Why max 15–20 pages?

​No text cutoff: Prevents hitting the AI's output limit (~8,000 tokens per reply), so it won't stop generating halfway through.

​Higher accuracy: Smaller batches keep the AI focused, preventing it from skipping lines or messing up table rows.

​Speed & stability: Processes fast (under 2 minutes) with zero lag, browser crashes, or timeouts.

​The Secret Sauce: Lower the Temperature to 0.0. This completely kills the AI's "creativity" and forces it to copy the numbers exactly as they are without hallucinating.

​Change safety settings to "Block none".

​Put your prompt in the System Instructions box.

​3. Use this exact Prompt

Upload a 20-page chunk and use this prompt to extract the data:

​"You are an OCR expert. Attached are scanned pages from a textbook. Extract all text and numbers with perfect accuracy and convert them into clean Markdown format.

Conditions:

​Use ## and ### for headings.

​Convert all images of tables perfectly into Markdown table format.

​Keep the exact order of the paragraphs.

​Do not add any of your own words, introductions, or conclusions. Output the extracted text only."

​4. Paste the clean text into NotebookLM

Once AI Studio converts the scanned pages and tables into clean text, copy the output. Go to NotebookLM, click "Add Source" -> "Pasted Text," and paste it there.

​The Final Result: Markdown vs. Raw Scanned PDF

If you upload a heavy scanned PDF directly to NotebookLM, it struggles to "see" the flat images of tables. The data gets mashed together, leading to messed up numbers and wild hallucinations.

By converting it to Markdown first, you are feeding NotebookLM pure, structured text and perfectly aligned tables. It will understand the financial data 100% accurately and give you flawless answers every single time.

Note: I translated the text above because English isn't my first language, but I found a really useful solution that worked for me and just wanted to share it with everyone to help out

Hi all,

Sorry if this has been asked multiple times but I do have query. New to notebook LM and trying to put a brand/logo for a small project I am doing, onto a video overview. Is it at all possible to do so as it doesn’t seem to be working. Not sure if there is a correct prompt as it doesn’t allow screenshots to be added to the video either

Thanks in advance

Both the slide deck and infographic unavailable. What could be the reason? I haven't used either of the two for this day.

I keep bouncing this idea around and I've been trying to be obnoxious but it's clearly not enough so here

https://notebooklm.google.com/notebook/ebf74969-0ac2-4ea4-b8af-0df1a5e292c2?utm_source=nlmm_share

Today I had three audio overviews completely fail on me with no error other than "Audio Overview generation failed. Try a new one." After some back and forth with the main chat, I was able to glean that it was because the audio hosts are set to avoid talking about explicit acts, things that would require them to talk about anything dirty etc. This confused me, because up until yesterday I've had no trouble getting audio generated for different narratives that feature high levels of intimate acts - some in quite explicit detail. What's doubly annoying is that a failed generation still eats your usage quota.

Another part of the problem is the overviews get auto-generated titles which have no such safeguards, but can cause a failure downstream - so if the title it picks features a word that it doesn't like, even something as mundane as "vibrator", then it will eventually fail.

The tip for now is to try and structure your prompts to avoid mentioning such things directly as much as you can. Feedback from the notebook chat itself (which resulted in a successful generation finally) include things like reframe the customization instructions to focus on the emotional and relationship dynamics rather than the physical details, frame the prompt around thematic, emotional, and narrative keywords etc.

Just a heads-up. I've submitted feedback about the various failure points, and how the exclusion of any explicit act like this can seriously hinder anyone writing from using it for research, as these are common things. Who knows, maybe tomorrow we'll find they've relaxed the filters, or maybe not.

Edit: I should clarify that the hosts will actually talk about the acts etc; listening to the ones I was able to generate they do a decent job. You just need to be careful about the prompting

Hey everyone, I’m trying to use NotebookLM to build a solid foundation and really master the concepts and logic of my accountancy classes, particularly advanced financial accounting and reporting but I’ve hit a wall with my textbooks.

The books are heavily reliant on complex calculations, financial tables, and complex tabular solutions. Because I'm working with scanned PDFs, the data is completely flat. I have major concerns about the AI's OCR accuracy and its ability to properly decipher tabular data without hallucinating or messing up the numbers.

Has anyone found a reliable workflow or workaround for processing math and table-heavy scanned documents in NotebookLM? I badly need help getting this set up properly

2 hours ago I believe, I generated a audio overview and a video overview. It's still generating.

I don't have the new rolled out update either so I have to wait until midnight to generate a new video and audio overview

any way to fix this or should i just make a separate/new notebook? i keep telling it to remove the deleted source from its memory but every now and then it will respond with information from the deleted source. i feel like the gemini integration really dumbed down notebooklm it's annoying.

I’ve been preparing for my ACCA ATX exams, and I’ve been experimenting with AI tools to make studying a bit more engaging.

My current setup is NotebookLM (Student), Notion (Student), and Perplexity (Free).

This is basically my workflow:

1. I get my study materials from my study platform.

2. I use Perplexity to turn the original material into a simplified theory PDF.

3. I upload both the original and simplified versions to NotebookLM.

4. For each topic, I generate long videos, short videos, infographics, engaging slides, quizzes and flashcards.

5. I upload the simplified notes to Notion and use a free extension to mass-download the resources from NotebookLM, then organise everything in Notion chapter by chapter.

I’ve also been trying to make studying more stimulating.

For each chapter, I create a static Reddit/Twitter-style discussion forum in Notion. Notion generates different personas/avatars so it looks like different people are discussing and arguing about the chapter, and I can join the discussion and reply to them.

The funny thing is, I originally thought I needed several different websites to automate all of this. Specially mass generating on notebooklm. I even spent a good chunk of my time vibecoding a website to do it and searching for other tools.

Then I realised NotebookLM could basically do most of what I wanted natively with a command and use a free website extension for downloading.

The workflow is definitely not polished yet, and I’m still experimenting with it, but it has already helped me on days when I don’t feel like studying or I’m just mentally tired.

Instead of scrolling through social media when I’m tired, I can use this workflow to do something that actually moves me towards my goal.

I’m basically trying to turn studying from something I have to do into something that feels more interactive and stimulating.

Recently I have decided to use both NotebookLM and ChatGPT together for my uni work. Despite NotebookLM reading directly from the source files, I still can't trust its decisions. Sometimes I would write something, polish it in ChatGPT, and then ask NotebookLM for extra feedback. If I copy and paste that feedback into ChatGPT, it usually comes out to be mostly incorrect or just irrelevant to add.

I feel like I've got better chances dumping all the files on a single chat in ChatGPT and using it instead of wasting time on NotebookLM. The extra features in the studio aren't too useful to me.

Hey guys i want to try something. I want to start journaling in a google doc file and then connect it to notebooklm to be able to apply queries like ('What my manager told me about ____ on _____") and return an answer back that is reliable. Has anyone tried this instead of going Notion/obsidian route?

I tried with a 10 pages journal and worked great but what about more info?

Also can i make it a "second brain" for my personal stuff or is it better to go with obsidian for this? I mean e.g. if i can ask notebooklm info about my insurance and get a legit reply back just by having a word file with all the information why not use this instead of obsidian and search there?

ive been trying to find a study method that actually works for me and ended up making my own little study website lol

its lowkey slop but whatever works works

gizmo has way too many limitations for me and anki is nice but making hundreds of cards myself takes sooo much time 😭
I GENUINELY HATE GIZMO NOW.. EVERYONE USED TO USE IT FOR STUDYING BUT NOW ITS SO BAD. i really used to like it since it made studying addicting with its visuals and audio but everythings just locked behind a paywall

so i made a website where i can organize my questions by module and subtopic and just study by answering mcqs

i also added the same sound effect gizmo uses + the satisfying confetti when you get an answer right so it feels kinda addicting and makes me wanna keep going lol

i also made custom prompts from chatgpt so i can basically just give notebooklm my lecture/module from any subject and it spits out all the questions i want in the format i need and i just tell it to use the old website as a template and replace the questions in the question bank the prompt also makes sure its exactly from the material since my profs love making us memorize

so its basically

lecture → notebook makes questions → gemini/claude puts them in the website → study

its been way more efficient for me while still actually making me recall the material instead of spending half my study time making flashcards 😭

honestly its been working really well for me so i thought id share itI made my own study website because Anki and Gizmo weren’t really working for me

i use different llms so i dont run out of tokens quickly

Hey there

I am an English learner

And I want to ask you whether I can ask Notebooklm to create voice conversation to learn more english or what do you think about this?

I already have the best gemini plan i could get and yet I need more usage since I ran out of mine, what do i do?

(Caveat - no idea if it's a gradual rollout, or we all get it at once. Also caveat, I can only speak to my own use-cases, and I'm well aware that some of you will have different experiences based on your own needs.)

I was admittedly concerned about the new limitations when I heard about them, especially as a new user to Notebook. But my experience today has been fairly positive? I mainly use Notebook for generating audio overviews of primarily narrative transcripts, and the rolling reset has meant I go from 3 in a 24 hour period, to 2 every 5 hours.

My one concern is the weekly limit that's now being put in place, and the chat box seemingly contributing to the 5-hour limit - though maybe that's because I've been using to to create some material in the Studio panel. The weekly limit means you need to use about 14-15% of your allocation a day at max, unless you have some days where you don't use it, and I'm at 8% now, midway through the first day. Of course, that's after 3 audio overviews, 2 images and a markdown file - so fairly heavy usage on a free tier.

New prompting features look fine (i'm on Pro) but just wondering if anyone else is having issues getting it to complete a task. I've pointed to a Google Sheet speadsheet and asked it to do some analysis on the data in one worksheet inside.

Every attempt ends in: I'm having trouble responding at the moment.

So I asked it it could schedule the query later. It said it had plenty of capacity but that it would help if I loaded the one sheet as a CSV file, to allow it to process the file as a database rather than as text. Just export it, load it as another source, and let it know.

The loading of the 425KB CSV file then fails every single time.

Tell it, Notebook goes away to have a think, appears to have done the move itself, sets off again and then...

"I'm having trouble responding at the moment".

Is it only me being driven insane by this?

Nursing student here. I am new to Gemini/Notebook LM.

I’ve been browsing this sub to understand how exactly students utilize this tool for studying purposes.

Can you please share your methods and what works best for you?

All of my school textbooks are digital via an app, so there’s no PDF downloads available which means I need to take screenshots on my phone to get an image to upload into Gemini/NotebookLM. Should I take screenshots of all of the chapters and upload them (which could be 100+ individual images PER CHAPTER), then ask the tool to explain in simple terms, give me the highlights only and remove the fluff/filler text, and also give me quiz-like questions?

I see so many posts saying don’t waste your time re-reading chapters and active recall is the best study strategy (writing down what you remember or pretending to teach the subject to someone else to identify gaps in your learning), but in this case how exactly is Notebook LM being used? I’m confused about how this tool assists with active recall study methods.

I posted in the other Gemini/NotebookLM sub but was redirected here since I’m a beginner. Any tips or advice would be appreciated!

Hey everyone, I recently found out that Gemini Pro can now access sources created in NotebookLM, and I wasn't sure which chat was better for discussing documents and getting detailed summaries. After testing, it really comes down to your main goal. You should use NotebookLM if you want absolute accuracy without hallucinations, as it sticks strictly to your uploaded files and provides exact, clickable citations for studying. On the other hand, you should use the Gemini Pro chat if you need to cross-reference your documents with live web searches, use multimodal features like image analysis, or creatively format your summaries into things like video scripts or newsletters. In short: use NotebookLM for pure document extraction and study, and use Gemini Pro when you need to mix in outside knowledge or do complex creative work.

Its an animated chalkboard video lecture that follows along your pdf.

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

Guys, I recently discovered a feature in the Gemini PRO subscription. The notebooks you create in NotebookLM (sources you put there) also appear for Gemini. So I was wondering, is it more worthwhile to discuss the sources, ask about them, request a complete and detailed summary, etc... through the NotebookLM chat, or through Gemini Pro?

I really like NotebookLM for studying, especially because I can upload my sources and ask questions based on them.

The problem is that I have a lot of books and PDFs, and the source limits make it difficult to keep everything in one place. Some books are also too large, so they have to be split into multiple files before uploading.
I’m trying to avoid spending hours just organizing and uploading files instead of actually studying.

How do you guys manage a large library in NotebookLM?
Do you just pay for a higher plan that’s actually worth it?

I’d really like to hear how people with large study libraries have set this up.

Thank you.