Lesson 1 of 5 · 2:20
Ep.1 — What’s NotebookLM?
What you’ll make
A source-backed answer to a real planning question.
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Choose a tool for the task: Gemini can help with drafting and brainstorming, including work with provided files. NotebookLM helps you explore a selected collection of sources and check cited passages. The tools overlap, and both can make mistakes. Check important claims against the original source and keep unanswered questions visible.
Put it into practice · 5 minutes
Your lesson kit
Follow along with fictional workshop documents. Written guides and practice files are in English.
Start with the sample files
Read the lesson guide
A written companion to the lesson, not a verbatim transcript.
- Use a notebook when you want to explore a defined set of documents. The sample workshop brief gives you a small, concrete starting point.
- Ask one question whose answer is in the brief, then check the cited passage against the original document.
- Ask a question the brief cannot answer. Treat missing information as an open question rather than filling the gap yourself.
Try this prompt
Use it with the sample sources in your notebook.
Using only the workshop brief, who is this workshop for and what should participants leave with? Cite the supporting passages. If the brief does not say something, mark it as unknown.
Your turn
- Download the workshop brief and add it to a new notebook.
- Paste the prompt and inspect the supporting citations.
- Ask which meeting room has been booked. Check whether the source actually names one.
Compare with an example result
An illustrative answer based on the sample files. Your wording may differ.
Audience: 12 customer success colleagues. Outcome: each participant creates a source-backed customer briefing and checks its citations. Meeting room: unknown; the brief does not name a room.
Check your work
You can trace the audience and outcome to the brief, and the answer does not invent a meeting room.
Share this with your team
Send someone a useful starting point.