Google’s NotebookLM now lets you share your notebook — and AI podcasts — publicly
Viewers can’t edit the notebook, but they can interact with AI audio overviews, ask questions, and read FAQs.
Viewers can’t edit the notebook, but they can interact with AI audio overviews, ask questions, and read FAQs.
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Google’s AI-powered notetaking app, NotebookLM, now lets you share your notebooks with classmates, coworkers, or students using a public link. Though viewers can’t edit what’s in your notebook, they can still use it to ask questions and interact with AI-generated content like audio overviews, briefings, and FAQs.
First launched as an experiment in 2023, NotebookLM has become a breakout hit for Google. The app is designed to help you understand material from a variety of sources, such as notes, documents, presentation slides, and even YouTube videos. It can provide AI-generated summaries of the content, generate AI podcast-style discussions, “chat” with you about the material, and more. Google launched a mobile NotebookLM app last month.
The steps to making your notebook available publicly are pretty similar to the way you share something in Google Drive, Docs, Sheets, and Slides. You just select the Share button in the top-right corner of the notebook, and then change the access to “Anyone with a link.” From there, hit the “Copy link” button and then paste the notebook link into a text, email, or even on social media if you want more people to interact with the information.
Google also lets you share your notebooks with others by entering their email address. Unlike with public link-sharing, you can give individual users the ability to edit your notebook. You can share audio overviews from within the Gemini app as well.
