Organize and Understand with NotebookLM

Stop Drowning in Sources: Organize and Understand with NotebookLM

NotebookLM is a powerful AI tool by Google that helps you organize, understand, and work with large amounts of information. Whether you are doing research, preparing teaching materials, or managing projects at work, NotebookLM can help you work smarter and faster. This workshop will guide you through everything you need to know, from the very basics all the way to advanced features and real-world workflows.

Who should attend?

This workshop is for academic staff, researchers, teachers, and other professionals who want to start using NotebookLM or get more out of it. You do not need to have used NotebookLM before, but you are expected to already know what it is and to have basic experience with AI tools in general.

Content

This workshop is structured into three levels, so you can build your skills step by step.

Beginner

• What is NotebookLM?

• Privacy: what you need to know before you start

• Adding and managing sources

• Interacting with the chat

Intermediate

• NotebookLM Studio: exploring the creative features

• Sharing notebooks with others

Advanced

• Third-party extensions

• Prompting: how to get better results

• Connecting NotebookLM with Gemini

• A full workflow example to bring it all together

Prerequisites: Basic experience with AI tools (Mistral, Claude, ChatGPT, etc.).

Setup: The first hour of the workshop will be a presentation with a demo and a discussion session, during which we will introduce the various NotebookLM features. The remaining three hours will be dedicated to hands-on learning, during which you will experiment with NotebookLM. During this session, you will explore the various features and learn how to apply them to tasks relevant to your work.

(Additionally, you are welcome to attend with a question that you may already need help with, and we can provide assistance during the hands-on session!)

Preparation

• Have a personal Google account. Please note: the University of Groningen Google account does not work with NotebookLM, so a personal Google account is required.

• It is recommended that you bring your own laptop. If you do not have a laptop, please contact t.j.van.mourik@rug.nl so we can arrange one for you.

Result

By the end of this workshop, you will have a clear understanding of what NotebookLM can and cannot do, and you will be ready to use it in your research, teaching, or other professional work.
This workshop is designed to engage participants actively, with opportunities for collaborative exploration and plenty of time to ask questions and get feedback.

Please note: this workshop does not provide advice on university policies regarding AI use, since a comprehensive university-wide policy does not yet exist. It is up to you to decide how to use NotebookLM based on our privacy and security disclaimers given during the workshop and your faculty guidelines.

Enrollment and course fee

Attendance is free for UG staff and PhD-students, but registration is required.

More information

• If you would like to be notified of future courses or other AI-related events, please fill out this form.

• If you would like to organize a personalized Stop Drowning in Sources: Organize and Understand with NotebookLM workshop, have more questions about the workshop or would like to know more about AI tool support, you can mail the AI Office at ai-office rug.nl.

_{This is a Research Support Hub workshop. The Research Support Hub is a CIT initiative to support all researchers and PhD-candidates throughout the University of Groningen on data management, geo-services, statistics, machine Learning, AI-tools and high performance computing.}