Introducing NotebookLM: Explore Online Resources from Various Sources

How it works

When you describe your topic, NotebookLM gathers hundreds of potential web sources in seconds. It analyzes them and selects the most relevant ones based on your defined topic. It presents up to 10 source recommendations, each with an annotated summary explaining its relevance to your topic.

With one click, you can import these sources and use them with other NotebookLM features, such as Briefing Docs, FAQs, and Audio Overviews. The sources will remain in your notebook, allowing you to read the originals, ask questions via chat, and utilize NotebookLM’s citation and note-taking capabilities.

We’ve even included a fun additional feature for newcomers to NotebookLM: the “I’m Feeling Curious” button. It generates sources on a random topic, providing a quick way for you to see the product’s source discovery agent in action.

Here’s how you can use it:

1. Go to notebooklm.google.com.
2. Open up a notebook.
3. In the Sources panel, tap the Discover button.
4. Describe what you’re interested in.

Discovering sources is the first of a series of NotebookLM features that harness the power of Gemini to find and collect relevant sources for your notebook. This functionality will begin to roll out today for all NotebookLM users, and we expect the rollout to take about a week or so.