Too many people are trying to get AI to finish their work, and it shows. Generic, bland, and sometimes embarrassing. Here's what I've learned: the most effective place to bring AI into your projects isn't at the end. It's at the beginning. Researching, synthesizing, identifying gaps, and setting context that matters more that trendy prompts. NotebookLM is Google's free tool that lets you do exactly that with up to 50 sources and 25 million words of context.

What You'll Learn

• Big Meeting Tomorrow? Make a Podcast Tonight
  Turn your meeting docs into a briefing podcast you can listen to on your commute so you walk in prepared with the key talking points.
• Pull Expert Knowledge from YouTube at Scale
  Collect frameworks and insights from YouTube then use that curated expertise to build better context for your Claude Projects or Custom GPTs.
• Turn Scattered Docs into Clear Context
  Combine 20, 30, even 50 sources into one place where you can actually query them, summarize them, and extract what matters for your project.