School is not easy. If you are like most students, you probably feel like you need all the help you can get, especially when the time comes to sit for exams that can potentially do or undo your future.
But maybe study groups, tutors, TA sessions and online study guides simply do not work for you. Maybe you want to try the self-guided study. In this case, you now have another option: Notebook.
Notebook Does the experimental application of taking notes and research on Google AI. It’s like Chatgpt, except that he trains on the documents you feed him, becomes an expert on these materials, then in turn helps You With these subjects.
If you want to distill a complex subject to its main elements in a digestible way, NoteBooklm is ideal for this. This is the AI version of a TL; DR and maybe useful if you are studying for an exam. Here is what he can do and how you can enjoy it.
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Organize your study equipment in notebooks to help you focus
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With Notebooklm, you can download up to 50 different sources of information by notebook, so as a student, you will want to make sure you use different notebooks for everything you want to study.
By important notes of study of conferences, trials and other source documents linked to a specific subject, you can sort your study equipment in useful groups. For dense courses, you may even want to divide the course into several notebooks, one for each subject of the semester.
Say, for example, you specialize in computer science. You can create separate notebooks for each course: one for computer history, one for assembly, one for PC equipment, one for networking, one for artificial intelligence, etc. To do this, just click on + New notebook And add the source of your course to the notebook.
Summarize study documents to make them more digestible
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Once you have downloaded your study equipment, Notebooklm can create summaries to make them more digestible – and the more digestible they are, the more likely you are to understand them.
Of course, it is always important to read all the material in your source form, and it is always important to write or type notes, tests and other courses yourself. But once you have done this, the summaries generated by the AI in Notebooklm can help you absorb basic ideas.
What is good is that the automobile does this automatically for you. After downloading documents, the application offers summaries for each of the sources. You can decompose it more by selecting only a single source and asking Notebooklm to summarize this It is Talking, then shrinking things by asking for a deeper dive.
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Create a study guide with practices and flashcards
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You no longer have to create and maintain your own study guides before your exams. Instead, you can ask Notebooklm to create them according to your downloaded documents, with training questions to help you prepare for the real test in front of you.
You can also ask him to create flashcards containing the key terms linked to the subject you are studying, as well as their definitions.
To do this, make sure you have filled your notebooks with all the relevant sources. Then simply ask Notebooklm to create a study guide. If you want any practical questions included, say it. And the same goes for flashcards that can help you in your memorization.
Ask Notebooklm to explain and clarify confusing concepts
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Even with everything above, you will probably always meet confusing concepts that you have trouble grasping. Wouldn’t that be great if you had a free tutor and on demand that might explain these things to you? Well, Notebooklm is the next best thing.
Simply ask notebooklm to explain any concept that you do not fully understand and it will generate a simplified – but always useful – explanation – of this same thing. Often, the simple fact of having something explained in a slightly different way can make all the difference.
You can explain your questions to ask you what special terms mean or that are special people or how particular principles work. NoteBooklm will browse your downloaded sources and use information inside as the basis for its explanations. If something sounds, ask for other revisions.
Be asked about your study equipment to check your progress
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Once you have sufficiently studied a certain subject, to the point where you feel confident, you can check your progress with a quiz generated by notebooklm. This will help you identify your strengths and weaknesses, allowing you to adjust your study sessions accordingly.
Simply say to notebooklm: “Ask a set of questions to help me check my progress.” It should find a list of adjustment questions according to your downloaded documents. You can also ask Notebooklm to ask increasingly difficult questions near the exam.
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Create an overview of the audio “podcast” to hear the dissected subject
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Audio preview is the most recently added feature to note to date, and it’s so cool that it has become viral. It essentially creates a “podcast” generated by AI-AI from your source documents, with two virtual hosts discussing the subject aloud.
It is a very digestible way to understand any complex subject because the support of podcast is intrinsically digestible. And if this podcast generated by AI arouses more questions than answers, you can start asking questions about the notebook and obtaining clarifications.
To create an audio preview, search Audio preview In the upper right corner of the application. You can either Generate an audio preview based on all selected sources, or Personalize It suggests specific subjects on which hosts are concentrated. Once generated, you will have a Podcast Nifty discussion on everything you study.
Use notebooklm as a AI study partner
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Finally and above all, notebooklm can be your study partner – someone to bounce ideas, to share knowledge, to help strengthen what you learn to keep it.
Students have been using study partners for decades, and now notebooklm can be filled as a virtual study partner with a pinch. Although it is an AI, it can also prevent you from feeling alone and isolated while transforming by the masses of study material by yourself.
There are no specific instructions here. You just have to consider notebooklm as your study partner and converse with it accordingly. Whatever you ask a human study partner, you can also ask this equivalent of artificial intelligence.
NoteBooklm may provide information that you may have missed, suggest areas on which then focus and act like a sheet for all the questions you have. The only thing that is missing is that human touch and emotional support.
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