10 "Life-Changing" Ways To Use NotebookLM (in 10 min)

it's amazing to see so many people using notebook LM and today I'm excited to share 10 new ways I've been using it for work Family Life hobbies and future planning most importantly I'm going to show you how to maximize your results by combining notebook LM with other AI tools since no AI does it all combining multiple tools is a major theme of this channel these customizable workflows can really improve your work and your life AI has brought some major changes into my life forcing me to shut down the marketing agency I ran for 10 years

and pivot into something completely different I think most people are going to be going through a similar transition in the coming years and helping you through that transition is the mission of this channel the first use case we're going to dive into is using notebook LM to find meaningful work and I love this quote from Ray diio he says that meaningful work and meaningful relationships are what matter most for a fulfilling life and that starts with figuring out what makes you tick I've spent thousands of dollars on personality tests for myself and my team and

I've come across no better tool than this free tool by Ray doio that's called principles use so this is the First Resource I want to point you to it's just principles y.com and this is a free assessment you can take to figure out what makes you tick and once you complete that you can just load it into notebook LM adding a source here uploading that PDF that has everything about you and what you like to do for your work then you just load up any notes related to Opportunities you might be interested in such as

startup ideas job opportunities or other career pivots here into notebook LM and then you can use prompts like these to figure out if those opportunities truly align with your personality these prompts are all in the cheat sheet that I created for this video I create a cheat sheet like this for every single video that I create there's over a hundred in there they're all instantly available to anybody who supports me on patreon there's a link in the description so check that out I'm just going to grab this simple one here what career paths align with

my personality strengths and copy and paste that right into this meaningful work notebook and see what it spins up shutting down my agency was really painful but it allowed me to start over with intentionality Ray Doo's work helped me understand myself in a much deeper way but now I want to show you how to use notebook LM to understand all the opportunities that are available to us these days and for this we're going to use notebook LM as a hub for all of our deep research documentation I want to give a major shout out to

AI powered real estate who gave me this idea in a comment on a recent video I did all about using deep research if you're unfamiliar with deep research I've got a whole video on that that I will link to in the description but the basic gist of it is that if you go to check GPT and click this deep research buttton you can create some really impressive documentation around any opportunity that you might be interested in exploring that deep research creates documents that are 20 30 40 I've made one that is even 80 pages long

so using notebook LM to help me parse and think through all of that information has been super helpful you can see I built this deep research Hub and I've loaded in all of my deep research projects here and then I use prompts like these to explore these documents what are the key themes across multiple deep rese research documents and I'll copy and paste that right in here to help me explore all of the deep research documentation that I've created and speaking of large documents now I want to shift into how I'm using this for my

home maintenance car maintenance and Appliance maintenance needs the first step is to use a prompt like this in perplexity to gather manuals installation guidelines Etc you can then load in all those manuals and other helpful documents into a notebook LM notebook then you can use either chat GPT or notebook LM to help you create a master Main main guide this guide should map out the maintenance schedules of everything you own then when you get maintenance done you can just upload receipts or quick notes about what's been done in order to keep this up to date

you can even use it to help you generate budgets for your maintenance going forward another useful way to use notebook LM is for Pet Care this is my little pup he's been getting older and I've been making a lot more trips to the vet I've been loading all those notes and every that I research online about his conditions into a notebook LM to help extend the long it of this little guy but pets aren't the only ones getting older around me if you happen to be dealing with any aging parents you can do the same

thing for them but there's an extra use case for aging parents that I think is really cool and this is around preserving their legacy you can now upload um just any sort of audio file so any MP3 that you record on your phone so it might be a cool idea to just start interviewing any aging relatives with your iPhone just hitting that little voice memo app and having them talk about their lives and then uploading all of that into a notebook LM that you can then use to build all sorts of different documents later on

one killer tool that I can't get enough of that complements this is notion especially this Wiki uh functionality that notion allows you can quickly spin up beautiful and very flexible websites to store all of these notes related to your aging relatives you can use it to store handwritten recipes or the voice memos themselves along with videos and other photography Etc there's a lot more in the cheat sheet about this including some books that you can upload into notebook LM that can help you with this while we're on that topic if you are struggling to convert

your Kindle books into PDFs to load them up in there you might want to check out ocean of PDF for any book that you've purchased that you want to get a quick and easy pdf version of to upload it into notebook LM but make sure to pay the author for any books that you grab from there I don't know about you but using AI so frequently has made my brain lazy AF so next I want to explore how to use notebook LM to stay mentally sharp and I went down some deep rabbit holes with this

one the basic gist of it is that you load up notebook LM with a bunch of source material around things that are a bit challenging to you but that you really want to master and then you ask notebook LM to quiz you on those topics I really love Charlie munger's thoughts on mastering worldly wisdom so I created an entire notebook LM all about munger's worldly wisdom including extensive notes on all the different disciplines he recommends mastering then I'll use prompts to help me create little quizzes or thought experiments to help me stay focused while I'm

trying to master this material here's a simple one just about generating a 10 question quiz based on key Concepts from these documents we'll drop that right in here and watch it create a 10 question quiz for us and there you have it notebook LM is really cool because you can just click these little numbers and find where in the source material that information is coming from there are several pages in the cheat sheet just about this including a really cool reading list that reading list showcases a bunch of sources that are super valuable for this

kind of thing while exercising our brain is awesome we also need to pause for reflection every once in a while and that is the next use case for Notebook LM using it for personal reflection one really cool advancement in AI is the ability to now do OCR so you can take a photograph of handwritten text upload that to the free version of chat GPT and have it create a text version of that document this is super helpful if you do any journaling any reflecting you can just take photos of all of that turn it into

text and load that into notebook LM and over time build a database of all of your different Reflections then you can use prompts like this one to summarize my past week's journal entries and highlight common themes in order to get deeper insights from your journaling process it gets really powerful when you build up a lot of journal entries in there and you can use prompts like these comparing my Reflections and self-confidence from last month to now you can even get creative with it by asking it to rewrite your journal entries as short stories another great

way to use it is by uploading any sort of information about hobbies that you're exploring these can be instruction books or articles and you can ask notebook LM to break down the learning into Progressive stages for beginner intermediate and advanced modes then you can log notes about each session and continue to get customized feedback directly from some of that great source material that you've uploaded so like I mentioned at the beginning of this video the mission of this channel is to help as many people as I can find meaningful work as they transition into this

new AI reality and in line with that I've been coaching and mentoring folks through that transition the next use case is all about using notebook LM for mentoring so structuring a mentoring program you can upload mentoring Frameworks goal setting worksheets or leadership guides and ask it all sorts of questions like summarizing key mentorship strategies from that documentation you can use it to help your Mente set goals and track those goals you can use it for communication and feedback techniques and even helping them go through some of these things that we went through with career and

skill develop so if you're mentoring anybody if you're onboarding anybody if you're really just trying to help anybody out get to that next level think of notebook LM as a resource for all that and finally what about your own legacy I've been thinking a lot about this type of thing and using notebook LM to help with that I'm so grateful that I've been keeping all these weird little notes in my notion database over the years because this has really been helpful for shaping these different Legacy ideas I don't have any kids but I have a

couple nieces that I want to create some documentation for to help them on their journey and using a combination of things I've stored in notion over the years along with some of those journal entries that I mentioned earlier makes great source material for this kind of Legacy project so like I mentioned at the beginning of the video I truly believe that AI is going to change everybody's life I've been through that change and I can tell you it was a little bit rough but I got to say I'm happier now than I ever was before

by moving through that change with intentionality and I think this cheat sheet is really a blueprint for that in the cheat sheet there is over 10 times what we able to cover today including 100 other use cases for Notebook LM that we didn't cover and this along with 122 other cheat sheets are all instantly available to anybody who supports this Channel and joins my patreon there's a link in the description I've also got some coaching options in there as well but if you love notebook LM as much as I do I want to point you

to another video with another 10 use cases this is one of my most popular videos of all time I'll see you over there make Dre