🧠 Turn information chaos into organized insights [Workshop]

Hey there.

Some AI tools are definitely overhyped.

But there are some with stand out features, unique advantages, and universal use cases that seem to go under the radar.

Inside The Rundown AI University, we explore a wide range of tools, including the underhyped platforms.

And there’s a powerful research tool quietly changing how many students, researchers, and leaders organize and extract insights from information.

Google's NotebookLM is the unsung hero of AI research tools — but most professionals aren't using it properly (or at all).

Here’s what NotebookLM can help you do (that almost everyone else is ignoring):

Consolidate scattered research into a centralized knowledge hub

Knowledge management relies on organized tabs, folders, and files, and the average researcher juggles dozens of PDFs, videos, websites, and notes — constantly switching contexts, losing track of insights, and wasting hours searching for that "perfect quote" they know they read somewhere.

Inevitably, crucial connections get missed, key insights slip through the cracks and, after all that effort, there’s no way to know everything important has been captured.

NotebookLM completely transforms this painful process:

• Upload up to 50 different sources in one place — documents, slides, PDFs, YouTube videos, web pages, or even audio files

• Ask questions across all your materials and get answers with precise, clickable citations showing exactly where the information came from

• Generate perfectly formatted study guides, glossaries, and summaries in minutes that would take hours manually

• Create podcast-style audio overviews in 76 languages so you can absorb information while commuting or exercising

• Output perfectly formatted, source-linked literature reviews from dozens of academic papers

• Enables real-time collaborative research with shared notebooks for team projects

Students use this to consolidate lectures, textbooks, and supplementary materials into comprehensive study guides while business professionals compile market research, competitor analysis, and internal documents to develop strategic insights in hours instead of days.

Why it's different from ChatGPT or Claude: Both platforms are more likely to “hallucinate” and their ‘Projects’ limit you to PDFs, text, and images. NotebookLM handles a wider variety of sources including YouTube videos, web pages, and audio files — critical for multimedia research.

Extract precise insights backed by perfect citations

If your current workflow involves pasting blocks of text into ChatGPT, triple-checking references, or manually compiling information from multiple sources, you're doing it the hard way.

Traditional research methods force you to choose between speed and accuracy. Either you work painfully slowly to maintain rigor, or you cut corners and risk errors that undermine your credibility.

NotebookLM eliminates this false choice by:

• Answering your questions with responses drawn exclusively from your trusted sources

• Providing clickable citations for every insight, letting you verify information instantly

• Generating comprehensive literature reviews with perfectly formatted references

• Finding connections, contradictions, and research gaps you might have missed

• Creates concept maps that visualize connections between ideas across all your sources

• Finds contradictions and research gaps you might have missed

Legal teams use it to search across thousands of document pages for relevant precedents and case law, teachers compile research into age-appropriate lesson plans with verified sources, and content creators connect diverse materials into cohesive, well-supported narratives.

Why it's different from Perplexity: Perplexity searches the web for you, but you have less control over the sources it uses or how it interprets them. NotebookLM gives you complete control over your sources and guarantees that every answer comes directly from materials you've validated and trust.

NotebookLM is overpowered and underhyped, giving its growing user base of early adopters a unique advantage. 

The best way to join them and make the most of the platform is to understand exactly how it works — including the pro tips that are already delivering the best results…

Tomorrow at 4 PM EDT, you’re invited to join Dr. Alvaro Cintas and learn:

• What NotebookLM is and how it can transform the way you organize and explore research materials

• Key features like uploading PDFs, Google Docs, URLs or YouTube videos to generate summaries, glossaries, FAQs, and audio overviews

• How to chat directly with your sources to get grounded, accurate answers without endless searching

By the end of the workshop, you'll confidently be able to use Google NotebookLM to improve your research, studying, or teaching.

With 92% of students now using AI tools and up to 70% of knowledge workers' tasks being transformed by generative AI, mastering research-focused tools like NotebookLM is essential for staying competitive.

Supercharge your knowledge management with an interactive demonstration of NotebookLM by starting a 14-day trial to The Rundown AI University.

Stay curious, 

Rowan & The Rundown Team

P.S. Early adopters are using NotebookLM to listen to engaging custom AI-generated audio conversations on their chosen subjects or research studies in 76 different languages. Transform your research into a podcast-style educational resource you can listen to anywhere by starting a 14-day free trial here.