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For Audio Overviews rather than chat. Restructures the episode so the hosts pause for listener input instead of talking straight through, with rules for switching language mid-episode.
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- YouTube to NotebookLMSend entire channels, playlists or search results into a notebook in one click instead of pasting videos one at a time.
- Folders for NotebookLMAdds folder organization to the notebook list — built by a community developer who got tired of waiting for the official feature.
- EPUB to TXT converterConverts ebooks into clean plain text for upload — still useful for EPUBs that import poorly.
- Academic Prompt LabA prompt generator covering twenty analysis types — gap analysis, thematic coding, Feynman technique — with a rigor toggle.
- SurfSenseSelf-hosted Gemini Notebook alternative that connects Slack, Notion, GitHub and more — for teams whose documents can't touch a third party.
- NotebookLM MCP Server (PleasePrompto)Drives a real Chrome session so an AI agent can chat with a notebook, add sources, and generate Audio Overviews, with DOM-level citations in every response. Needs a persistent Chrome profile signed into one Google account.
- NotebookLM REST API + MCP Server (roomi-fields)Wraps every Studio output — audio, video, infographics, reports, slides, data tables — behind a 33-endpoint REST API, built for wiring NotebookLM into n8n, Zapier or Make. Supports multi-account rotation for batch jobs.
- NotebookLM MCP (khengyun)Talks to NotebookLM over its internal RPC calls instead of driving a browser, so there's no Chrome process to keep alive. Around 28 tools cover chat and source management, plus source merging across notebooks and mind maps.
- Conversational Bot (Versatile Bot Project)Makes a notebook answer in a friendly, chatty register while still handling analysis and generation requests. Spells out how it weighs your uploaded sources against general knowledge — where the two disagree, your sources win.
- Custom Bot (Versatile Bot Project)A harness rather than a persona: it reads whatever system prompt you put in a second source and follows that. Add this document plus your own instructions and the notebook becomes that assistant; add it alone and it asks you for the instructions.
- Listener Bot (Versatile Bot Project)Draws a half-formed idea out of you through questions, then turns the finished version into a deliverable — audio, diagram, slides or video. Runs in a default conversational mode until you explicitly ask it to export.