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Posted by xnx 5 hours ago

NotebookLM is now Gemini Notebook(blog.google)
153 points | 87 commentspage 2
NguyenDat377 3 hours ago|
I feel like the name reflect the product more. I have been using NotebookLM for studying and really like it. I wonder if with this name change, would there be a major change in Gemini Notebook ?
hek2sch 3 hours ago|
The backend has changed people experience more hallucinations. You can see their subs.
minraws 4 hours ago||
Guys google, I know enough people in the company to know how this decision was made, but I must say as a user if you rename or kill another thing I will stop using any Google service I still use.

This might be the one time I might forgive it but guys please don't it's annoying.

frollogaston 2 hours ago|
They've been doing this kind of thing for at least 15 years
navigate8310 4 hours ago||
NorebookLM sounded a little scholastic
dubcrab 4 hours ago||
NotebookLM is genuinely useful for structured research workflows. My concern is not the name. It's whether the "notebook" metaphor survives the rebrand.
baggachipz 4 hours ago||
If it's named "Gemini", does that mean it's going to get shoved in your face on every single google-related page/product?
SecretDreams 4 hours ago|
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nxYUizQrAg8&t=4s
staticman2 4 hours ago||
They probably changed the name because they've been integrating it with the Gemini web page where it now appears on the left above recent chats.
audioh4cker 2 hours ago||
Not a big deal to be honest. Still works just as great.
realsarm 2 hours ago|
Technically not https://www.reddit.com/r/notebooklm/comments/1ss53l5/halluci...

There's a lot of these in their sub.

abirch 4 hours ago||
Are there other tools out there like NotebookLM? Not a replacement but some cool AI tools that help people learn.
petra 4 hours ago||
Or maybe just a way to use chatgpt/Claude with files , and get accurate references to the page/paragraph in the source?
jeromegv 4 hours ago|||
Claude/ChatGPT still end up making things up when they can't find anything, notebook is much better to 99% reply based on quotes. But yes a backup is to use Claude and grep, but not quite the same.
hek2sch 4 hours ago|||
It's cumbersome to have llm duplicate all quotes and still get good response. Else you get no visibility into your sources.
hek2sch 4 hours ago||
Best closest I stumble on is nouswise. Lets you contain an agent with even more sources and generate almost all outputs.
petra 1 hour ago|||
No pricing, "call for demo". Not sure this is for personal use.
realsarm 1 minute ago||
Pricing with a long table comparison for the 3 plans https://nouswise.com/pricing

Are you looking for this?

realsarm 3 hours ago|||
Like how many sources? And what you mean by sources (tables pdfs...)?
hek2sch 3 hours ago||
I have several projects with lots sources (800+). I mostly work with webpages, papers and youtube videos. It also supports mcp if you want to connect something.
NoImmatureAdHom 4 hours ago||
I'd like to have audio overviews of scientific papers, so I can "read" them while I drive. NotebookLM/Gemini Notebook sorta does this, but the two-person podcast format is kind of annoying and it can't pronounce math.

Is there something out there that will do this? I'm sure the right harness around frontier models would make it work.

MarioMan 30 minutes ago||
Google Illuminate does this. I believe it was actually a precursor to Gemini Notebook. It uses a similar podcast generating model but tuned to keep things more technical and detailed.

https://illuminate.google.com/

PiersonMarks 52 minutes ago|||
Paper2Audio is great - and if you're looking to have more editorial control over the outputs, check out Jellypod. You can choose your hosts, publish it to a website/RSS feed, edit scripts, etc.
goldenjm 3 hours ago|||
Yes- I'm the founder of www.Paper2Audio.com, a text to speech service focused on accurately reading complex docs to you such as research papers. Our free plan lets you generate 56 hours of audio per week, using high quality voices.

Feel free to email if you have any questions or feedback.

hek2sch 3 hours ago|||
How would the right format for you look like? Specially be monologue?
NoImmatureAdHom 3 hours ago||
It could be monologue or dialogue, but it should be less full of verbal "syntactic sugar" than NotebookLM podcasts. More to the point, more detail-oriented, can pronounce math.

Can pronounce math is the real showstopper for me. Last time I tried, NotebookLM would try to say the TeX out loud. Like underscore dollarsign...

hek2sch 3 hours ago||
It's been sometime I have been using an app called nouswise. I switched right after they added nblm notebooks in Gemini. I knew they cannot stand another app competing with their flagship. But anyway, it do have audio recap and it definitely have way less of "syntactic sugar". I haven't tried but because it's agentic you can ask it to generate a monologue for you. But I assume you should be in deep mode. I so far only used the side bar for this.
larrywright 3 hours ago|||
Readwise does this pretty well.
mistrial9 4 hours ago||
random idea -- driving while you drive?
NoImmatureAdHom 3 hours ago|||
1) you aren't able to listen to something safely while driving on the highway? 2) the cars pretty much drive themselves on the highway these days
dizhn 2 hours ago|
Why? tho
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