Learn Any Subject with Custom Notebooklm Podcasts

Learn how to use Google’s NotebookLM to generate a custom podcast on any topic you want to study. You’ll turn your own sources into an Audio Overview, which can take 5–10 minutes to generate once your notebook is set up.

• Entrepreneurs who want to stay on top of the latest news in their sector
• Newsletter readers who are a couple of issues behind
• Anyone who wants a process for learning about new topics
• Audio-first learners who want a better way to process incoming information

You will build a NotebookLM notebook with learning tools tailored to your sources and prompting.

• A topic-specific NotebookLM project
• A set of selected sources, such as links, files, Google Drive documents, or YouTube videos
• A generated podcast-style Audio Overview

• A Gmail or Google Workspace account
• Sources for the topic you want to learn about, such as websites, files, Google Drive documents, or YouTube videos
• Optional: Google AI Plus, which provides more sources per notebook and more daily generations

• Use the same workflow to catch up on Rundown AI newsletters by pasting newsletter links as sources and generating a podcast.
• Select a single newsletter and ask NotebookLM to do a deep dive on the companies and news mentioned in it, then generate an Audio Overview for that content.