Abstract
- Use YouTube as a supply for NotebookLM for environment friendly studying
- Copy and paste YouTube hyperlinks for fast video summaries
- Ask questions and prompts for deeper understanding of movies
How a lot time have you ever spent watching YouTube movies in your life? Most likely an excessive amount of There’s something for everybody there. However, there may be usually an excessive amount of to eat abruptly. Who has the time to take a seat by means of all types of lengthy tutorial movies and even podcasts? There’s a option to “watch” YouTube movies with out really watching them and that is with NotebookLM.
NotebookLM, Google’s note-taking software, can pull data from Google’s search engine. However it could possibly additionally discover solutions for you from a extra centered group of sources. That features YouTube movies, which supplies you the chance to study extra from that YouTube video or group of movies. I have been utilizing this shortcut for consuming YouTube movies and I do not understand how usually I’ll be watching lengthy movies once more.
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These tips assist me use YouTube a lot extra effectively
I am watching extra movies than I ever have earlier than.
Use YouTube as your predominant supply for NotebookLM
It simply takes some copy and pasting
While you open NotebookLM, you’re first requested about including sources. You possibly can click on the Uncover button, which helps you to simply seek for a subject by means of NotebookLM’s base AI supply, which is a bit restricted. However, if you wish to use your personal sources, you possibly can drop PDFs, textual content or audio recordsdata, paperwork or sheets out of Google Drive, and hyperlinks to YouTube movies. There are buttons that deliver you to the add bar for the YouTube hyperlink.
Below the hyperlink field, the next is listed
- Solely the textual content transcript might be imported at this second
- Solely public YouTube movies are supported
- Not too long ago uploaded movies might not be out there to import
- If add fails, study extra for widespread causes.
When you paste a YouTube hyperlink in there, it’s added as a supply and it populates what the video is. Instantly, the brand new Pocket book is known as regardless of the summation of your video is. Within the instance I used for this, I uploaded movies about the best way to use your iPad as a second monitor. The video is summarized in a paragraph or two, highlighting key phrases in daring that it’s essential take note of. Straight away, the benefits of importing YouTube movies to NotebookLM are apparent as a result of it summarizes a 97-second video into 5 sentences.
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Ask questions and prompts to dive deeper
Use NotebookLM to study extra
You possibly can paste one YouTube video and simply use that as your supply or you possibly can add as much as 50 hyperlinks to decide on as sources. I uploaded movies that highlighted the best way to use your iPad as a second monitor for a MacBook, for a Home windows laptop computer, and the best way to set it up in lower than 5 minutes. The unique description that NotebookLM populates into your pocket book does not change, even in case you add extra hyperlinks.
Nevertheless it does provide the capability to ask extra clarifying questions and prompts. You possibly can ask a query that is instantly associated to one of many movies particularly or you possibly can ask extra basic inquiries to get suggestions from all of them. NotebookLM additionally affords up prompts that you simply may need to use, simply in case you possibly can’t consider any your self. It gave me “What are the first functionalities and advantages of utilizing Sidecar?,” “Methods to join iPad as a second monitor,” and “What app permits iPad as second show?” The Chat operate helps you to discover out extra about what your movies are about and provides you the management to study at your house and ask as many questions as you need.
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Use NotebookLM’s different options as properly with YouTube
Audio Overview can flip your video into a brief podcast
You are not restricted to simply utilizing Chat to search out out extra about your YouTube video. NotebookLM has plenty of options that open up the potential methods of consuming your movies. You possibly can select a Thoughts Map, which is a breakout of your subject into totally different bubbles. It is a graphic that’s produced that provides you parameters like themes, traits, and extra that relate to your topic. Thoughts Maps could be saved and transported with you wherever you go, providing you with the flexibility to make use of them for learning functions.
The unique description that NotebookLM populates into your pocket book does not change, even in case you add extra hyperlinks.
You too can create an Audio Overview of the YouTube video. Whereas this will appear foolish, particularly in case you’ve uploaded a video podcast as your hyperlink, it would generate an AI audio recording of two “hosts” discussing the subject of your movies. Though I uploaded movies that had been not than 5 minutes in size, Audio Overview created an 11-minute overview of them.
I’ve used YouTube for years and including hyperlinks to NotebookLM opens up new prospects for it. Having AI do the work of really analyzing the movies and making them simpler to know is one option to get the knowledge that you simply want from them. Whereas I nonetheless take pleasure in watching movies, particularly foolish ones that YouTube feels made for, once I’m trying up informative movies, I have been utilizing NotebookLM to assist me digest them quicker.
