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
The community's verdict is unanimous: “summarize” is the weakest ask. These are the analysis prompts r/notebooklm actually upvotes.
OpenStudy & exam prep
Flashcards, quizzes and reading workflows shared by students and self-learners in the community.
OpenAudio Overviews
The default podcast wastes its first minute on framing. These community templates go in the Audio Overview prompt box.
OpenSlides, video & infographics
Full style specifications shared by community members - paste them into the Video Overview or infographic prompt box.
OpenSetup & accuracy
Small persistent instructions the community swears by - set once, and every later answer gets better.
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.
Everything here comes from the Gemini Notebook community — 28 prompts, 26 sources and 5 tools, each credited and linked to where it was shared. Found something that belongs here? Share it in r/notebooklm.