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Jeremy Caplan
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Приєднався 16 тра 2012
I'm passionate about teaching and helping others teach. As an educator and journalist, I focus on sharing information, ideas and inspiration. I share useful tools and tactics and explain how and why they're useful. I hope you'll find this material useful and I welcome your input!
How NotebookLM is improving🐬 | Wonder Tools
Google’s free (notebooklm.google.com)NotebookLM (notebooklm.google.com) made improvements today to what has become one of the most powerful ways to use AI.
NotebookLM (notebooklm.google/) helps you draw insights and learn from notes, documents, links, and recordings. It doesn’t do research on the Web, scan its internal databases, or make up content to please you. Instead it’s grounded in - and focused exclusively on- analyzing the sources you provide.
Today, Oct 17, Google improved NotebookLM’s most popular feature. You can now customize its automated AI-generated podcasts to focus on a specific topic, target audience, or document you’ve uploaded. I’ve been testing that and consider it a remarkable new way to generate audio.
Read on for an updated overview of one of the year’s most surprising AI tools, including suggested ways to use it, a few limitations, and some alternatives.
Updates to Google’s Fast-Growing Experiment
What’s new: Since I first covered NotebookLM, it’s improved substantially.
Use it in 200 countries. You no longer have to be in the U.S to join.
Upload more files. You can now add all sorts (support.google.com/notebooklm/answer/14276468?hl=en) of doc, links and multimedia.
Use Gemini’s best model. You can now ask questions about images, charts, or diagrams that appear in any of the sources you upload.
More specific, accurate citations. When NotebookLM identifies something in your notes or documents, you can click on a citation link to see a more precise selection from the material in your own notes.
Join as a team. As of Oct 17, Google is inviting businesses, universities, and other organizations to join a new pilot program (notebooklm.google/business) for team collaboration. That will be useful in enabling team collaboration. It’s initially free, eventually paid.
New: Create customized audio posts
Customize Audio Summaries. You can now customize audio summaries. Here’s one (notebooklm.google.com/notebook/89fcb606-f3e5-4048-aaa2-cbba09f82212/audio) I generated to test out a custom prompt. To create it, I uploaded a UA-cam recording of a workshop I led about AI for educators and provided a few sentences of guidance to shape the focus of the audio clip.
How it works: Notebook LM can turn any files you upload into a 7 to 10-minute AI-generated podcast episode. Each notebook you create can include one of these “audio overviews” featuring a conversation between two AI voices. Here’s an example (notebooklm.google.com/notebook/ce189890-5411-42d1-8663-d61520040f94/audio) I made by uploading a Wonder Tools post I wrote about Perplexity (wondertools.substack.com/p/perplexity).
Human-like voices. The quality of the voices and the AI summarization is so good that when I played a recording recently for a group, people assumed the hosts were human.
Enthusiastic. NotebookLM’s algorithm instructs the AI hosts to always be energetic. People have uploaded resumes and credit card receipts to test the hosts; they sound just as excited no matter what material you give them.
English only. NotebookLM can understand materials in close to 100 languages, and queries in numerous languages. The audio overviews are English-only for now because of voice-model limitations.
Mostly 7-15 minutes long. You can’t customize the audio length. If you provide brief material you may get a 3-minute audio result. Exhaustive texts may end up with 20-minute audio summaries.
How to get started
Sign up at notebooklm.google.com (notebooklm.google.com). It’s free with no usage limitations. Start by exploring sample notebooks included in your account.
After creating your own first notebook add Google Docs or Slides; PDFs, text and Markdown files; Copy-pasted text; Web links; UA-cam links, or audio files.
Upload up to 50 files into each notebook. Each source can be up to 200mb and contain up to 500,000 words.
Create up to 100 notebooks. I have ones for research, teaching, and hobbies.
Apply AI to a collection of notes or documents
NotebookLM’s AI can generate overviews of the material in each notebook. You can ask specific questions about your materials, or you can start with some default resources.
FAQ = Get a summary of questions and answers related to your material.
Table of Contents = See a roadmap of what’s in your notebook.
Study Guide = Get quiz and essay questions and a glossary of key terms.
Timeline = See an ordering of events and a cast of key people.
Briefing Doc = View a summary of key themes, notable ideas, and quotes.
Chat. You can query your notebook just as you would chat with ChatGPT, Claude or any other AI bot. The benefit in NotebookLM is that it will provide a citation to the section of a document it relied on in answering your query.
Noteboard. Inside each notebook, there’s a bulletin-board style space for saving AI responses. You can use it to reflect on new ideas, annotate passages, or save observations that...
NotebookLM (notebooklm.google/) helps you draw insights and learn from notes, documents, links, and recordings. It doesn’t do research on the Web, scan its internal databases, or make up content to please you. Instead it’s grounded in - and focused exclusively on- analyzing the sources you provide.
Today, Oct 17, Google improved NotebookLM’s most popular feature. You can now customize its automated AI-generated podcasts to focus on a specific topic, target audience, or document you’ve uploaded. I’ve been testing that and consider it a remarkable new way to generate audio.
Read on for an updated overview of one of the year’s most surprising AI tools, including suggested ways to use it, a few limitations, and some alternatives.
Updates to Google’s Fast-Growing Experiment
What’s new: Since I first covered NotebookLM, it’s improved substantially.
Use it in 200 countries. You no longer have to be in the U.S to join.
Upload more files. You can now add all sorts (support.google.com/notebooklm/answer/14276468?hl=en) of doc, links and multimedia.
Use Gemini’s best model. You can now ask questions about images, charts, or diagrams that appear in any of the sources you upload.
More specific, accurate citations. When NotebookLM identifies something in your notes or documents, you can click on a citation link to see a more precise selection from the material in your own notes.
Join as a team. As of Oct 17, Google is inviting businesses, universities, and other organizations to join a new pilot program (notebooklm.google/business) for team collaboration. That will be useful in enabling team collaboration. It’s initially free, eventually paid.
New: Create customized audio posts
Customize Audio Summaries. You can now customize audio summaries. Here’s one (notebooklm.google.com/notebook/89fcb606-f3e5-4048-aaa2-cbba09f82212/audio) I generated to test out a custom prompt. To create it, I uploaded a UA-cam recording of a workshop I led about AI for educators and provided a few sentences of guidance to shape the focus of the audio clip.
How it works: Notebook LM can turn any files you upload into a 7 to 10-minute AI-generated podcast episode. Each notebook you create can include one of these “audio overviews” featuring a conversation between two AI voices. Here’s an example (notebooklm.google.com/notebook/ce189890-5411-42d1-8663-d61520040f94/audio) I made by uploading a Wonder Tools post I wrote about Perplexity (wondertools.substack.com/p/perplexity).
Human-like voices. The quality of the voices and the AI summarization is so good that when I played a recording recently for a group, people assumed the hosts were human.
Enthusiastic. NotebookLM’s algorithm instructs the AI hosts to always be energetic. People have uploaded resumes and credit card receipts to test the hosts; they sound just as excited no matter what material you give them.
English only. NotebookLM can understand materials in close to 100 languages, and queries in numerous languages. The audio overviews are English-only for now because of voice-model limitations.
Mostly 7-15 minutes long. You can’t customize the audio length. If you provide brief material you may get a 3-minute audio result. Exhaustive texts may end up with 20-minute audio summaries.
How to get started
Sign up at notebooklm.google.com (notebooklm.google.com). It’s free with no usage limitations. Start by exploring sample notebooks included in your account.
After creating your own first notebook add Google Docs or Slides; PDFs, text and Markdown files; Copy-pasted text; Web links; UA-cam links, or audio files.
Upload up to 50 files into each notebook. Each source can be up to 200mb and contain up to 500,000 words.
Create up to 100 notebooks. I have ones for research, teaching, and hobbies.
Apply AI to a collection of notes or documents
NotebookLM’s AI can generate overviews of the material in each notebook. You can ask specific questions about your materials, or you can start with some default resources.
FAQ = Get a summary of questions and answers related to your material.
Table of Contents = See a roadmap of what’s in your notebook.
Study Guide = Get quiz and essay questions and a glossary of key terms.
Timeline = See an ordering of events and a cast of key people.
Briefing Doc = View a summary of key themes, notable ideas, and quotes.
Chat. You can query your notebook just as you would chat with ChatGPT, Claude or any other AI bot. The benefit in NotebookLM is that it will provide a citation to the section of a document it relied on in answering your query.
Noteboard. Inside each notebook, there’s a bulletin-board style space for saving AI responses. You can use it to reflect on new ideas, annotate passages, or save observations that...
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Experimenting with AI for email correspondence
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Good explanation
I've been using pinpoint for about two years but found this helpful.
1. Can we upload our own artwork for it to animate? 2. If we do so do you train your AI on our artwork? 3. Is there a way to download our videos, or can we only share from your source?
great! another service that feeds on you!
I was intrigued by this, but then I waited 10 minutes for it to fetch info from Apple Podcasts. I gave up.
Hypernatural should be a category at the Oscars.
I'm thinking of all the different ways to use this... advertising/marketing, including teasers for online journalism! Thanks Jeremy!
You're welcome, MaryAnne! It's surprisingly quick and easy to create these videos now. The biggest challenge is coming up with a compelling idea.
This looks very interesting. Thank you Jeremy. I need to get up to speed on the tool.
Promo-SM 😚
Hi Barrett, at 3:15 there are a number of limitations and caveats noted --- as there in the written post. The objective here is to share both what's useful about Bloks and what it's limitations are, as an independent take for anyone who might be interested. Hope that helps.
do the others in the meeting know you are transcribing their words? Does the app inform them or does it rely on you to do that?
Jeremy mentions it in his detailed text overview: Because Bloks isn’t visible to other meeting participants, ask if it’s OK for you to create an AI transcript of the meeting. Also ask if others would like a summary afterwards. Almost no one refuses, and it’s often appreciated
Thanks for your review!
Thanks Jeremy - always super helpful and concise
How secure is AI; specifically personal patient health situations?
Good information! Thank you!
I'm wowed, this is amazing!!!
I would like to see tree mapping views. Maybe the title of the card with a board view where lines can be attached between the cards to show various kinds of relationships. Maybe assigning the nature of the relationship to a color.
"Visual first tool" Love it!
When you talk about "compatibility" and you explain the importance of the values, is it right to consider it like a question of a brand reputation? If a newspaper cheats its values, it cheats the target audience who may abandon the newspaper
Yes, Dario, that's one way to think about it. The way I'm framing it here is really about an inward-looking question - is something compatible with your own internal values - but as your question suggests, your internal values will in the long run impact your brand reputation as well. I appreciate your interest!
Hey great video, what app are you using to record the screen and make those cool "zoom into mouse" effect?
This is like a infinite board with post its
Really cool features❤ Canva is super 👌 can't wait to try out these! As for text to image , it will be fun if you show what text prompt you gave to generate a corresponding image. But all in all, a very informative video.
Thanks for the input, Priya! Good point re showing the text prompt. Thanks.
nice video, I just found a little annoying and kind of unnecessary the zoom ins, but overall good stuff
I appreciate your feedback, and your point about Zooms is duly noted. I’m experimenting with a new screen recording tool called Screen.studio so I’ll keep adjusting the approach.
they launched paid version very late I wanted to buy subscription but after Obsidian released canvas feature scrintal is not needed
✌️ Promo'SM
I love where Scrintal is going, especially with so much AI integration taking place, it's an ideal platform to explore and navigate complex concepts visually.
Can we navigate up/down and left/right using the arrow keys on the MacBook Pro keyboard and the Magic Keyboard for the iPad Pro?
Hi Patrick, There are a bunch of shortcuts, some of which are noted in Ece's video: ua-cam.com/video/_DmOOmnRTMk/v-deo.html and if you're logged into Scrintal there's a written guide to shortcuts, in case that helps: beta.scrintal.com/app/card/yBANQdTLnWgra4mUsP6u?split-card=yVOwSNbWejaIvSpGx4j2
So useful! Thank you Jeremy and totally loving Wonder Tools
Thanks for this great explanation, Jeremy. Cheers!
Must I have a Readwise account before i can sign up for Readwise Reader? IOW, am I paying for both programs?
You don't have to pay twice. I don't work for Readwise, so double-check their pricing here readwise.io/pricing for more details but the bottom line is that one payment gets you both services.
Very informative, Thank you
Is it free or is it paid?
It's a freemium service. Here's more on pricing: otter.ai/pricing There's a free tier with 300 minutes per month, 30 minutes max per conversation as of the end of 2022.
Information is Wealth.
This is great. I have a huge selection of curated UA-cam videos I index for my students. I have been saving them into a convoluted series of UA-cam playlists that is getting out of control. I would like to take this one more step and play a video above the list when the URL is clicked. Anybody got any ideas on this? Thanks in advance!
Translate swahili
can you then import back into figma? after creation
Thanks Jeremy for the interesting video, can you please give examples of successful entrepreneurial journalism projects?
Thank you Prof. Jeremy. Is this tool support Arabic?
Can you put the links in your box below? Thanks!!
Hi Grace, thanks for the suggestion. Yes. I've added those links. Hope that's helpful! - Jeremy
@@JeremyCaplan Thank you! That helped a lot!!
Thank you for this review, Jeremy! For questions about Tilda, reach out to us at tilda.cc - we'll be happy to assist!
Beautiful!
Hi Jeremy! Thank you for the great and informative presentation. I would like to set up a website for a freelancing project of mine. Does Tilda provide an option to include a language switcher? There are a couple of plugins like this for Wordpress but most offer only automated translations (for a price, no less). All I really need is a button so I can translate the page myself. All in all, Tilda looks a lot easier to use than even Wordpress, which is ideal for a beginner like myself.
Yes, there's some help that Tilda provides on creating a multilingual site: help.tilda.cc/bilingual
@@JeremyCaplan Thanks again! It looks very intuitive, too.
Thanks Jeremy, great summary.
Thank you for sharing.
Are you using a paid version of Slido?
Yes, but the features I showed in this video should all be available in the free plan, though that free plan limits you to 3 polls per event and up to 100 participants.
Hello🖐 We like the content you make, And we would be interested if you are interested in publishing a video review (6-10 minutes) of our successful product Gglot.com, which quickly and efficiently converts any audio/video into text in more than 60 languages! The service is useful for freelancers/bloggers, especially for creating UA-cam subtitles. Website: gglot.com/🌎 Watch an example of a video review of Gglot: ua-cam.com/video/w6dxDlLrRFQ/v-deo.html ua-cam.com/video/7v7TybIne24/v-deo.html ua-cam.com/video/v-3-m5G4gIY/v-deo.html
thanks for the video
You're welcome! Thanks for watching.
You're welcome!
Audio treatment ???
Hi Daniel, you can configure your audio settings for mmhmm as detailed here help.mmhmm.app/hc/en-us/articles/360053834013-How-do-I-configure-my-audio-settings-to-support-the-sound-from-my-video-slides- - hope that helps address your question.
Can Otter do "Find and Replace" for the whole document at one time like you can with typical text editors?
You can search and find any term across a document, but there isn't a search-and-replace function as of now.
Excellent, thank you! I chose to watch this rather than the presidential debates, and it felt like balm for stress rather than raising stress, had I chosen the other. I'm glad I watched - so many great resources!!
Hi. I'm working on this subject with my students here in Brazil. Your videos are very useful. Thanks.
You're welcome, Fernando. Glad these are helpful! Thanks for that comment.