Finding research resources in NotebookLM just got easier


LM notebook You’ve just received a big upgrade to how you search for sources and add them to your notebooks. Announced on Thursday, additional updates follow New features have been added to its mobile app And a Much better chat experience.

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Resources are the core of NotebookLM, because they are the foundation of any notebook you create. This is what makes NotebookLM unique: it will only provide the answers and create content based on the sources you feed it. With this update, it’s easier to find and add these sources. Here’s what’s new.


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Discover more resources with Deep Research

If you’re trying to combine multiple sources for a research project, you can now let Deep Research do the work for you. Here’s what it does and how to use it.

In the source panel:

He chooses Web As your new source

From there, you can choose your search method:

Quick search: As the name suggests, select this option to perform a quick search to discover sources.

Deep research: If you want a complete, in-depth summary and analysis, choose Deep Research. It will take longer, but you can add your own while you find high-quality, relevant sources for your notebook in the background.

Whether you choose a quick or deep search, you’ll be presented with a summary of its results, as well as a series of sources you can choose to import into your notebook.

More file types are now supported

Google has slowly expanded support for the types of sources you can add to Notebook, but it has unleashed a few that are in high demand.

You can now add Google Sheets and Microsoft Word Document (.docx) files to a notebook – the latter a much-requested feature. Plus, you can now add PDFs and other files you’ve uploaded to Google Drive without having to download them to your computer and re-upload them to NotebookLM. Alternatively, you can add or specify a Drive file URL when adding sources from Google Drive.



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