Learn 80% Of NotebookLM In 12 Minutes.

Give me 12 minutes and you will use Notebook LM better than almost everyone paying for it. And no, I'm not talking about the 10 features that nobody touches. We are going to go through the five that actually put you in the 1% and one system that you will build today that remembers everything you throw at it better than you do. Because here's the problem with Notebookm. It has about 15 features and most of the internet is trying to teach you all of them. All of the latest updates, all the new bells and whistles. Trust me, you need five. The rest are a very pleasant way to lose a Saturday. So that is my commitment to you. I will teach you the five that matter. I will explain the 10 that don't so you never think about them again. And then we build that system together start to finish so you can copy it today. Thank you to HubSpot for partnering with us on today's video. Let's take 12 minutes. We're going to put a clock on the screen because I want you to hold me to it. And if you've seen the headlines this month about Notebook LM just getting its biggest upgrade ever, great, because most of what they added is built for technical users and half of it you can't even open without paying. So, I'm going to show you the two new pieces that do matter for the rest and skip the noise. That's my promise to you. So, look, most people open Notebook LM, drag in a pile of PDFs, ask it a question, get back a great sensible looking summary, and they think, hm, this is just chat GPT with extra steps. and then they close the tab and never come back. And I get it because they do look identical. Both are a box that you type into, but they're not the same tool. And the difference is the entire reason that I thought I needed to make this video. Jad GPT knows everything and answers from everywhere. Which means it can be brilliant and it can be completely wrong and it will sound exactly the same doing both. And I'm sure that has happened to you. It has happened to all of us. And this is not a small problem. Unfortunately, Stanford tested the top AI legal research tools, you know, the expensive purpose-built ones that lawyers pay thousands for, and they still made things up about one time in six. The regular chatbots on the same questions, they're wrong more than half the time. But Notebook LM works the other way around. It knows nothing except what you put in the room with it. And every line it hands back has a little number beside it. If you click the number, it drops you on the exact sentence in the exact document that it pulled that from. It cannot invent things about your business. It doesn't have the raw material to. So, if you've ever had to back up what you said with a source, I don't know, for a client, a manager, an investor, or just because you refuse to be the person who got it wrong, that is not a feature. That is the standard that you expect. I know I do. So, here's the only change that you need for the next 12 minutes. Please try to treat it like a colleague who has read every document that you gave them, remembers all of it, and simply refuses to guess. Okay, so we have five things to cover. First, we're going to talk about the sources. What you feed it is most of the outcome, and almost everyone feeds it wrong. Second, the citations, the receipts, and the 4 secondond habit that makes them worth having. Number three, the menu that nobody opens. 2 minutes. You do it once. Every answer after that will become sharper. I promise you. Number four, getting it out. Audio for the car and a report that you can actually send. That's all you need. Number five, keeping it alive. This is the one that turns a party trick into a system and then we build. I promise. Clock's running. So, let's get into it. Feature number one, let's talk about sources. Okay, you can feed Notebook LM almost anything. PDFs, Google Docs, a website, you just paste the link. A YouTube video, you just paste the link and it reads the transcript. Your own notes, an audio, if you record your calls, you can just drop the recording straight in. Now, the mistake everyone makes, and I made it too in the beginning, is that they dump 40 files. everything they've ever touched in one notebook and the answers come back mushy and general and slightly off and then they blame it on the tool. But the tool is not the problem. It's just that the room is crowded. Before you upload a single thing, you need to finish this sentence out loud. You need to answer. I want you to say this notebook answers questions about blank and you need to fill that blank with one subject, one account, one property, one case, one decision depending on your situation. and then add only what a brand new hire would need if you dropped the whole thing on their desk on day one. If a document wouldn't help that person answer that question, it does not go in. However relevant you feel it might be. So narrow notebook gives sharp answers. Wide notebook becomes mushy pretty much every time. Now one more and this part is new this year. If you find that there is a hope, you know something's missing and you don't have the document, you can just ask for it. Okay? You can just describe it in plain English and the notebook will search the web or search your own Google drive and pull the right source straight in. You used to have to hunt everything down yourself, but now you just start with a question. However, the same rule applies here as well. Use it to fill holes, not to fill the notebook. Okay? Trust me, six good sources will beat 20 or 30 or 40. You are the editor, it is the runner. Okay? Feature number two. These are the citations. And this is the trust layer and probably the reason why we're all here because we have all been confidently deceited by Chad GPT. Look, every claim that Notebook LM makes has a number next to it. You click it and it doesn't paraphrase and it doesn't summarize. It drops you on the exact sentence in the exact document. That's your receipt. Okay. So, here's the habit that will make that worth having. It takes 4 seconds, I promise you. Okay. What you want to do is click one citation on each answer. Just one at random. You can pick which number. Okay? You don't have to do all of them. You're probably never going to finish. Just pick one. And if that one is clean, the answer is more likely to be. And if it doesn't say what the answer claims, which will happen sometimes, maybe one time in 20, you've just caught the thing that was about to embarrass you in a meeting. Takes 4 seconds. Like I said, it's a tax, I know, but it is worth paying every single time. and look at what it buys you. You can put a number in an email now and if someone pushes back, you can produce the exact line that it came from in about two seconds. I want you to try with a chatbot. I dare you. Now, you've just seen the thing that makes Notebook LM trustworthy, the receipts on every line. If you're already thinking, "Okay, I want to run this on my own work, not just watch me do it, and then close the tab, then the team at HubSpot has put together the exact thing that you need next." And it's free. It is a complete guide to Notebook LM. And it's a step-by-step system for building any notebook for exactly what this whole video is about. Turning a pile of documents into something that answers you. Because here's the thing that most people get wrong when they get started with Notebook LM. They dump 40 files in, start chatting, get gray mushy back, and then quit. You don't have to. Okay? HubSpot wrote the framework down. Define, curate, validate, chat, transform. the same five steps that I'm going to walk you through written out so you can run them on your own material today. Inside you're going to get the framework, five worked use cases with copy paste prompts for research, for meeting archives, for content, for reference libraries and a straight comparison of what to use notebookm versus chat gpt cla or perplexity for sorted by the job you're doing not by feature list. And the part that I would read first, my personal favorite is the threep prompt validation strategy. A contradiction scan, a gap analysis, and an alternative viewpoint check. Takes five minutes, and it's what stops you from building a real decision on a bad source. If your name's going on the output, you want to start there. You can grab it for free using the link below. And a big thank you to HubSpot for partnering with us on today's video. Now, feature number three. Okay, and almost nobody clicks this, but you will. There is a small settings icon at the top of the chat. Behind it is a box where you can tell notebook what it is. By default, notebook is a polite, rather neutral, faintly boring research assistant because that's how it was designed to behave. It will provide a balanced summary of anything you ask, which is fine. Also, exactly why most people find it a little flat. So, watch what happens when you tell it who it is. Let's say we tell Notebook LM, you are my business analyst. I'm deciding whether to start a company in this space. every answer. Point me to the gap in the market. Back it with the exact sources and tell me what the evidence does not support. Please be blunt. If the idea is weak, say so to my face. You can use the same documents, but you will get a completely different behavior and completely different results. That's 2 minutes of work that you do once and every answer that this notebook ever gives you is shaped by it. This is the closest thing that Notebook LM has to a cheat code or instructions and it's one click away and hardly anyone touches it. The shortcut is literally four sentences. Who are you? Who am I? What's our desired outcome? What are your collaboration rules? And you can create a unique one for each notebook. Okay, that's the whole menu that nobody opens. But you will and you will get so much better results from now on. Now, feature number four, getting it out. Because a notebook that you have to visit is a notebook that you will stop visiting. And you're not at a desk. You might be in a car or in a corridor or in a queue. So, two outputs will make the biggest difference here. First of all, the audio overview. It turns your notebook into two people discussing it out loud like a podcast. I know how that sounds. It sounds like a gimmick, but I dare you to try it and it will blow you away. >> It's incredible. You're doing a job you absolutely love. You know, maybe you're a brilliant freelance graphic designer or you're an expert electrician running your own van. >> You're highly skilled. Your clients love you. >> I usually play that when I drive. Eight minutes of two people arguing about whether my business idea actually holds up. And by the time I park, I'm not researching anymore. I have already made up my mind. And you can also steer it. Actually, before you generate, you can tell it what to focus on. Only the strongest evidence or only the reasons that might fail. The default gives you a summary. The steered one gives you a decision. Not only that, but you can also intervene. You can talk to it and you can have a conversation among the three of you. You'll see how exciting that is. And then the report is the other one. You can ask for a briefing document and you get something that you can actually send structured, cited, readable by someone who sat in none of those meetings. Can you imagine? Two things they added this year doubled its value. When you go to make one, you can ignore the generic defaults and take the suggested formats. Those are built off your own documents. Okay? And you can now download it as a real word file or a deck as a real PowerPoint. It's not trapped in a browser tab anymore. It is an attachment that you can send to your clients or your team members or your vendors. So the audio is for you, the report for everyone else. That is the whole studio you need as far as I'm concerned. Which brings me to the 10 that I promised I would deinfluence you on because Notebook will make you a lot of great outputs. It will make you mind maps and flashcards and quizzes and infographics and slide decks and video overviews which are all great, but you will use each one exactly one time. If you don't have a clear use case, you might show somebody or feel clever and then never open it again. For example, the flashcards and the quizzes, they were built for students. You're not revising for an exam. Also, the mind map is lovely for about 4 minutes. And the big new one everyone's talking about, the version that writes and runs its own code is the cloud computer. So, I'll be honest with you, this is real, it's clever, and it's not for most people. If you are techsavvy or you're a data analyst, it wants you to think in code. And most of you might feel a little bit concerned about that. Okay? So, if you're a spreadsheet and email person, you will get more out of the five things that I just showed you than out of anything in that update. But if you do want me to make a video where I talk about that particular feature, do let me know in the comments and I'm more than happy to do that. Because look, none of it is bad. It's just not the 80%. And you've got a weekend to protect. Okay. Now, let's get into feature number five. And it is not really a feature, but more of a behavior. You want to keep it alive. Every new source that you find, you need to drop it in. Every article, every interview, every stray note, you need to paste it in as you go. 30 seconds while you're still looking at it. So, here's a trick that does the feeding for you. You add a Google doc as a source instead of PDF. And notebook treats it as living. Okay? It will pull the latest version any time and as the document changes, the notebook will keep up. A PDF basically freezes the second that you upload it. A document will stay alive. So for the running stuff, your research document, your notes on the idea, just use a Google doc. A notebook that you build once is a snapshot. A notebook that you feed is a memory. By week three, it knows things about your opportunity that you've already forgotten you found. And if you have claw do your research, you can also connect it with your notebook. I show you everything in this video here. I will make sure to link that one down below as well, so you can go and do that yourself step by step. Okay, we've covered the five features. Now we build the thing. And this is the one that I would build first, okay? It takes about eight minutes start to finish. I call it the opportunity memory. It's the notebook that most of the people in our founders community find extremely valuable because here's what happens when you want to start something. You research. You open 40 tabs. You save the reports. You screenshot the good posts. You take notes on calls with people that have done it or who might be your ideal avatar. And then 3 weeks later, you don't have a decision. You have a huge pile of information. But research does not decide for you. Okay? You have to hand the pile to a notebook and make it decide with you. So, let's use someone with an accounting background looking to start a business. Everything they collected researching one idea, a market report, a scan of every competitor that they could find, a digest of what people in that space actually complain about, notes from three real conversations, a podcast with someone who knows the industry, and their own messy notes, the 40 tabs and no answer file. Just upload all of that. It takes 90 seconds. That's literally the whole build. Three questions. These are the three that most people can never answer on their own because they're too close to the pile, so to speak. So, question number one is, what do people in this space complain about that no existing product actually fixes? Just ask that and look at what you get. Everyone assumes the problem is competence in our case, that these people just need better software or more discipline, but the notebook says otherwise. Across the complaints and all three interviews, the thing that keeps coming up is not the maths, it's the dread. The pain isn't that they can't do their own books. It's that every opinion makes them feel one of two things, either stupid or unimportant. The software talks down to them. The accountants can't be bothered with them. Nobody's solving the fear of money problem. Everybody's solving the spreadsheet problem. So, look, only a few sources and there was already a pattern that could have been missed. Now, question number two is where is the white space? What is every competitor ignoring? Now, if you read this carefully, you'll see that every option sits at one of two extremes. Cheap do-it-yourself software built for people who already understand accounting, so they're on their own, or traditional accountant, which is expensive, minimum fees, built for established companies that don't really want a one person business. And the biggest group of all, the people making real money working for themselves, nowhere near hiring a finance team. Those are sitting in the gap between them, and they're served by nobody. I mean, this person basically had all of that in their files, but could not see it until it was lined up with one answer. So, let's go to question number three. This is the one. Okay. If I had to bet on one business from everything I've collected, backed by evidence, not by my gut, what would it be? Wow. A plain English money service for people who work for themselves. The bookkeeping and the tax handled and explained like they're a capable adult, priced for one person. Basically, in one line, you would say, "Never draw a tax deadline again." And watch what it does. It doesn't just say it, okay? It backs it from lots of different sources at once. They'll pay for the comp, not the spreadsheet. That's the interviews. The number of people working for themselves is exploding. That's the market report. Nobody serves them. And the accountants actively don't want clients this small. That's the competitor scan and the podcast. Now, most people, they don't have that idea when they sit down. It was scattered across lots of documents and no single one of them contained. The notebook can assemble it and can show them the receipt on every claim. So they actually trust it. That is the difference between 40 open tabs and one decision. And if you're curious where all of these questions are coming from, that is part of our founders program in the founders community, which you can check out using the QR code here. Now, last thing, audio overview pointed at the evidence and the risks. And tomorrow morning on the drive-in, you get 8 minutes on the idea that you've been circling for weeks. So there you have it. All of these five things, just a few sources, check your citations, open the menu that nobody opens, get it out of the box with your audio or the report, and feed it after every call. That's all you need. It'll bring you ahead of most people. The other 10 features are lovely for an afternoon, but hopefully I've saved you from them. And what you walked away with is not actually a tool. hopefully is the idea that you have been chasing the gap that nobody's feeling. The reason it might actually work, none of that was ever in your head. It was in your research this whole time. You just never had a way to ask. So, build your own opportunity memory tonight. Pick the idea you keep circling. Gather everything you've got on it and ask it those three questions. Finding the files will take you longer than building the notebook. I promise you that. And once you found the opportunity, the real question is, what happens when you point Claude at it and start building? And if you want to learn how to do that with Claude, you're always more than welcome in our community. We would love to walk you through the entire process and handhold you along the way step by step. So, thank you so so much for watching. Like this video if you did. Be sure to subscribe if you haven't done so. Share this with anyone in your circle of friends or family or co-workers who might be interested in learning more about using Notebook. And if you'd like to join us in the community, like I said, the link is here as well as in the description down below. You can join our free community where we have challenges and bi-weekly calls and you can ask all your questions and get real results. Or you can join us in our founders community where we have the business course as well as the technical course where you learn how to use and implement Claude to automate your business. Or if you want to get even more technical, we share with you some of our own agents and we also teach you how to make your own. With that being said, thank you again for watching and I'll see you next time. Bye.