Get more out of Gemini Notebook
The prompts the community actually upvotes — credited to their authors — plus trusted sources you can import in one click and the tools people really use. Gemini Notebook is the new name for NotebookLM — everything here works the same.
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Featured prompts
One strong prompt per job — copy and go.
- 1The senior-researcher synthesis
A full academic-review harness: rules, process and a seven-part output structure. The most complete research prompt the community has shared.
Deep analysisChat - 2The insight meta-prompt (v5.1)
Doesn't summarize - it red-teams your notes and designs five custom prompts to expose blind spots. The author runs it in Gemini with the notebook attached; it also works pasted into Gemini Notebook chat.
Deep analysisChat - 3The 3-minute brief
The single most repeated Audio Overview fix: kill the warm-up minute, go straight at one topic.
Audio OverviewsAudio Overview - 4The citation-forcing pinned note
From u/Inside-techminds' source-structure workflow: pin this and every answer arrives pre-wired for verification.
Setup & accuracyChat settings - 515 flashcards with page numbers
The community's flashcard template: definitions, core concepts and cause-effect, with a page reference on every card.
Study & exam prepChat - 6The cinematic video master prompt
u/telultra's full director's-treatment prompt for Video Overviews - worldbuilding, camera language, a forbidden-tropes list and a scene-by-scene storyboard.
Slides, video & infographicsSlides / infographic
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Deep analysis
Ask harder questions of what you uploaded: compare sources, find contradictions, extract every quote on a topic, stress-test the main argument.
OpenSetup & accuracy
Templates for the chat settings almost everyone leaves empty: a full setup scaffold, accuracy guardrails that label every claim, a verification footer, and quick one-line pins from the community.
OpenStudy & exam prep
Turn sources into exam prep: flashcards, multiple-choice questions, study guides and reading plans with page references.
OpenIslamic studies
For studying uploaded Islamic texts — tafsir comparison, fiqh positions, hadith reports, glossaries. Answers only from your sources, never rulings.
OpenAudio Overviews
Shape the podcast before you generate it: host roles, episode formats, lengths, languages and interview-style episodes.
OpenSlides, video & infographics
Style prompts for slides, infographics and video — pick a look, paste the prompt, generate.
OpenWriting & content
Turn research into drafts: articles, summaries, content calendars and multi-platform posts, grounded in your sources.
OpenStrategy & decisions
Decision support from your documents: strategic memos, decision frameworks, future scenarios and risk checks.
OpenWorkflows
Multi-step processes rather than one-off questions: triage sources, then synthesise, then produce the deliverable.
OpenTrusted sources
Copy a link, paste it into Add source.
- Google Scholar
scholar.google.com
- arXiv
arxiv.org
- Semantic Scholar
semanticscholar.org
- PubMed Central
ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc
- SSRN
ssrn.com
Community tools
Import, organize and prompt better.
YouTube to NotebookLM
Send entire channels, playlists or search results into a notebook in one click instead of pasting videos one at a time.
Folders for NotebookLM
Adds folder organization to the notebook list — built by a community developer who got tired of waiting for the official feature.
EPUB to TXT converter
Converts ebooks into clean plain text for upload — still useful for EPUBs that import poorly.
Academic Prompt Lab
A prompt generator covering twenty analysis types — gap analysis, thematic coding, Feynman technique — with a rigor toggle.
Public notebooks
Open someone else's notebook and look inside.
Guides
Exports, formats and the things that trip people up.
- News
Gemini Notebook can now build a PDF, a spreadsheet or a chart straight from the chat box
7 min read
- News
Gemini in Classroom drops its 18+ limit on 10 August, and teacher materials now flow into Gemini Notebook
6 min read
- Guide
Gemini Pro for students: the free year is over, and almost every guide still says otherwise
12 min read
- Review
NotebookLM review: what Google's research tool is actually good at, measured rather than asserted
14 min read
Watermark remover
Strip the Gemini Notebook badge from your own video overviews, PDFs and slide decks. Runs in your browser — the file never leaves your device.
Everything here comes from the Gemini Notebook community — 142 prompts, 236 sources and 12 tools, each credited and linked to where it was shared. Found something that belongs here? Share it in r/notebooklm.