NotebookLM Plus Updates – 5 new NotebookLM features from Google

Summary

Google has rolled out exciting updates to NotebookLM, introducing a new paid tier called NotebookLM Plus. Host Jordan Wilson from Everyday AI outlines these latest features, showcasing the revamped user interface, the introduction of a studio panel, and exclusive Plus features like increased limits and custom chat modes. A highlight is the 'join the call' feature, enabling users to dive deep into source material with AI hosts on-the-fly. The updates also include analytics to track usage, though some features remain pending release. Wilson praises the smooth and user-friendly experience, encouraging viewers to leverage these tools in their daily workflow.

Highlights

• NotebookLM Plus now offers a paid subscription with exclusive features. 💡
• Google updates NotebookLM with a sleek, user-friendly interface. 🎨
• The 'studio panel' and 'join the call' features enhance user engagement. 📞
• Custom chat modes in Plus allow tailored AI interactions for users. 🤝
• Analytics feature enables tracking and analysis of tool usage. 📊

Key Takeaways

• NotebookLM Plus introduces a paid tier with enhanced features. 💸
• Exciting new updates include a revamped user interface and a studio panel. 🎨
• Exclusive Plus features offer increased limits and custom chat modes. 🚀
• The 'join the call' feature promises real-time AI interaction, making AI-driven conversations dynamic. 📞
• New features aim to enhance productivity and engagement in AI workflows. 💡

Overview

Google's NotebookLM has just received an exciting series of updates, introducing a paid tier known as NotebookLM Plus. This new version boasts a host of fresh features, making it a premium choice for AI tool aficionados. Jordan Wilson, the lively host from Everyday AI, walks us through these updates, showing off a revamped, sleek user interface, complete with a brand-new studio panel. For power users, the Plus version promises exclusive access to certain features, like increased operational limits and custom chat modes tailored to your liking.

One of the standout updates is the 'join the call' feature. Imagine being able to interact with AI hosts in real-time, diving into details of your source material with a simple click. Though this feature isn't fully rolled out yet, the anticipation is palpable. This capability promises to transform how users engage with content, making AI-driven conversations not just possible but dynamic and on-the-fly.

Alongside these features, NotebookLM Plus introduces an analytics suite, helping users track their AI interactions and usage patterns. Wilson notes some features are still on the roadmap, but the current offerings significantly enhance the productivity and interactive aspects of AI workflows. As he encourages AI enthusiasts to dive into these tools, Wilson highlights the joy and ease of using NotebookLM, making it a must-try in the landscape of AI tools.

NotebookLM Plus Updates – 5 new NotebookLM features from Google Transcription

• 00:00 - 00:30 Google just finally released new updates to notebook LM I say finally uh because we got wind of this last week in Google's blog post I even got an email about these uh updates yesterday but finally uh they are live so I'm going to tell you uh real quick what's new uh in Notebook LM and what's now available in this notebook LM plus yes there is now a
• 00:30 - 01:00 paid tier of notebook LM from Google which is by far I think one of the best AI tools out there let alone one of the best AI tools of 2025 so let's jump in and get to this uh before we do let me tell you what this is if you're new here my name's Jordan Wilson and I host everyday AI we are a daily live stream podcast and free daily newsletter helping everyday people uh not just learn AI but how we can leverage it to grow our companies in our careers uh so
• 01:00 - 01:30 this is an AI in five uh most days we do a quick little five minute tip trick or tutorial all right so here's what's new uh in my very official uh slides here here's what's new and I'm going to show it to you so number one notebook LM Plus account uh is out number two you have the revamped user interface super smooth uh we have the addition of the studio panel and then we have some plus features only uh so if you are on the paid version uh you get five five times
• 01:30 - 02:00 uh or five amounts uh for the limits uh you get custom chat modes and analytics and then join the call join the call is uh plus only it's not out yet uh but you know I'll just go ahead and and put it there uh just so you all know all right let's jump in and quickly see what's new and I'll show you how it all works all right uh so first let's actually do one from scratch so y'all can see all right so uh nothing new here uh you know this is your same notebook LM interface I'm
• 02:00 - 02:30 going to go to create new this is where you add your sources all right I'm not going to go over the basics I've already done quite a few videos podcasts on this as well uh but here's what I'm going to do so I've downloaded uh this Microsoft uh worklab um Trend index annual report it's all about AI usage really really good stuff also uh shout out uh Microsoft worklab is one of our uh sponsors here at everyday AI all right so I'm going to go ahead and stick this
• 02:30 - 03:00 bad boy in so I'm just going to upload the PDF and notebook LM is super fast I'm guessing it's going to be like 20 seconds or less even though that is a giant 40 page PDF with a lot of information all right so you'll see automatically it renamed the file uh which I love so if you've used notebook LM you already see the new user interface uh and kind of this new three
• 03:00 - 03:30 panel design uh what I like I mean one thing Google has been crushing since day one is user interface user experience uh it is smooth it is easy personally I think notebook LM is one of the most enjoyable pieces of software I've ever used not AI uh not you know of 2024 it is simple it is easy and the new uh updates here
• 03:30 - 04:00 great right super simple to uh to use to understand how they work all right so with your sources I can go through and add more sources uh but you can also toggle those on and off uh the studio this is the new uh Studio panel here uh so this is the uh kind of the addition of the new tab it was a little different before uh that has its own um kind of panel right there and then the chat panel now has some new features as well all right so uh we talked a little bit about the revamp user interface uh super
• 04:00 - 04:30 nice super clean a couple other things you know you have your standard uh notebook LM it's great uh you know at any point uh you can go uh read through your Source material you can just click on some of the main topics here and it's going to go ahead and uh put that as part of the conversation in the chat uh you can refresh and clear your chat uh at any point right there uh now uh the ad notes audio overview and briefing docs by default are all uh underneath the chat and then
• 04:30 - 05:00 in your studio panel those are all there as well uh so you can create a study guide and then it's going to put your note there I create a timeline and an FAQ so those should generate here in a couple of seconds and again this is going to generate based off of all of your Source documents right now I only have the one right uh so here real quick what I love here is I love when you collapse the studio panel uh it shows you all of your notes so in case you know it is brand new as you're catching
• 05:00 - 05:30 on to the new uh user interface you know oh that's where my notes are duh of course uh the audio overview I'm going to go ahead and generate that you still have your ability to customize uh the new feature that is not out yet it's the only one uh that we're still uh waiting for and I've been uh chatting with the team over that Google to try to get some more information about when this one's actually going to come out uh is this new join uh so I'm very excited about this one uh so
• 05:30 - 06:00 okay and then ask a question of the audio host which is really really a groundbreaking uh you know to like to say the least that is a groundbreaking feature all right I could talk about that forever uh but I won't but uh essentially the the audio overviews um this is one of the killer features right so this is where the two AI hosts
• 06:00 - 06:30 essentially discuss and do a quote unquote deep dive um into all of your Source uh into all of your Source material really cool but then uh being able to at any point be able to click that join button ask them a question and then they adjust uh the podcast on the Fly Like that's wild right as someone that literally this is what I do right I I I take questions from our live audience and it is not easy right so uh uh it is an exciting feature to say the least all right uh so those are some of
• 06:30 - 07:00 the main updates the last one there is we do have uh well actually two more we have the analytics there's nothing to see here yet because this just rolled out like 20 minutes ago and you need at least 24 hours uh and that is on the uh the Plus Account as well so I'm wondering if you will be able to see that right if if you are an admin if you'll be able to see the usage see how much your employees are using this uh so here's one new feature aside from the interface that is brand new uh so
• 07:00 - 07:30 uh also oh I forgot to mention you know you can always just add a note like this as well I would like um if this if you could still use quote unquote Gemini here uh right I know that sounds weird but sometimes staring at a blank document now in the in in the you know day of AI everywhere it's almost kind of daunting right and now with you know Google whether you're in Gmail whether you're in Google Docs Etc uh you kind of are used to seeing that Gemini icon that can just help you
• 07:30 - 08:00 right so you don't have to stare at a blinking cursor uh would love to see that but still love this this new interface super uh super clean so let's look at the new thing here so I'm actually going to show you the custom uh chat modes okay so there's some uh some pre-built ones so by default you have default and you can also choose your response length all right so uh you can have an analyst a guide or custom all right so first I'm going to go ahead and uh let's just say um is AI
• 08:00 - 08:30 impactful right so very easy question obviously uh it's probably going to respond uh affirmatively right uh so yeah here we go so it says you know the sources provide evidence that AI is impacting the workplace and then we have uh you know plenty of information here all right so that's good but maybe uh you know do you ever just get tired of reading the same responses from large language models so a lot of models you know have essentially custom instructions so uh we been able to
• 08:30 - 09:00 customize the audio overview uh before right I just want to make sure that I don't have the join button all right I don't all right so you've always been able to customize the audio but now you can customize uh the responses here so uh I'm GNA go ahead and refresh this all right and then let's go ahead and go custom here and then I want it shorter and I'm going to say um uh I'm going to say B definitive
• 09:00 - 09:30 funny and CT I'm going to say always respond in short uh bullet points and then I'm going to say uh never be decisive my delete key is no longer working sorry uh so it's actually really hard to type I got to update uh get a new keyboard here so I'm going to say never be decisive don't talk in generalities uh do not waste words uh and I'm going
• 09:30 - 10:00 to say uh try to be light encouraging and um brief but do not be corny right I'm trying to get rid of all the uh things about uh large language models that people generally don't like all right so there we go now I have my custom uh my custom mode there and you can always go through and check it's right there I checked the custom uh kind of tone does not carry over chat to chat it's only that one chat so if you get
• 10:00 - 10:30 something that works for you make sure to copy and paste it and bring it over uh I'm sure or I would love to see the ability uh inside uh notebook LM to be able to save those if you get something that really works for you uh so I've tried these they're they're they're pretty good all right so now I'm going to do the same exact thing and ask is AI impactful and you'll probably be able to see a stark difference in the response all right so there weren't any stats there right and that's probably
• 10:30 - 11:00 bad so I'm going to go in I'm going to edit this and I'm going to say uh always respond with pinpoint specific details stats and figures while still being succinct okay so now I'm going to go ahead I'm going to do the same thing I'm going to refresh and we'll probably see the uh
• 11:00 - 11:30 the difference there right so depending on the type of work that you do maybe you need a lot of stats maybe you don't maybe you you want um analogies right let's actually do that uh so I'm going to say I'm gonna say uh use basketball analogies to drive home main points all right sorry I'm sure you guys hate watching me type all right so now I might have to uh refresh that let's just
• 11:30 - 12:00 go ahead just to double check let's make sure our uh there we go uh so you can see there even when you refresh the chat it stays there don't worry uh you just can't save it and take it from chat to chat all right so now let's say uh is AI impactful so now it should be short it should use stats and hopefully we get a little basketball uh reference there we go the AI Revolution is like a fast break and businesses are scrambling to keep up um yeah see there there we good
• 12:00 - 12:30 okay so yeah did a did a much better job so it is still short uh and succinct it's not really funny right that's one thing I've noticed that uh you know notebook LM uh so far you know I've been trying to get it to be a little funny it's not really working but everything else uh Works fairly well so that is what's new uh if you aren't using notebook LM my gosh you you should start using it immediately uh it is a delight to use uh and it's one of the most impactful aiol tools that I've ever used
• 12:30 - 13:00 it is a grounded state-of-the-art model okay what that means is it only works off your data hope this was helpful if so please go to your everyday.com sign up for our free daily newsletter let me know if this was helpful let me know in the comments what else you want to see uh do you want to see comparisons right with with Google's and Claude projects uh or sorry notebook LM and Claude projects notebook LM and uh chat gbt projects uh let me know what you want to see I take requests I'm like a a radio DJ from the 90s all right hope this is helpful y'all see you back for
• 13:00 - 13:30 another AI in five or AI in 13 and a half