- Google introduces highlighted notebooks in notebooklm
- The curated content comes from places like The Economist and Atlantic
- You can ask questions about each notebook
Tired of waiting for you to use notebooklm to make amazing learning resources of your own, Google has decided to take the cases into your own hands and produced a series of carefully curated notebooks from respected authors, researchers, publications and nonprofit organizations, including economist and Atlantic.
With NoteBooklm you can read the original source material, but also ask questions about a chatbot that has been preserved in the material so you can explore specific topics at greater depth.
And of course, you can listen to the AI-generated audio lists that sound like podcasts that notebooklm is famous for or exploring the newer Mind Maps feature.
The initial set up of curated notebooks includes advice on lifetime from Eric Topol, bestseller author of Super actingexpert analysis and predictions for the year 2025 as shared in The world in front of Annual Report from The Economist and advice on advice based on bestseller author Arthur C. Brooks’ How to build a life Pillars in the Atlantic Ocean.
As if that wasn’t enough, they throw the complete works of William Shakespeare to anyone who needs help exploring the works of the bar.
You can expect the list of highlighted notebooks to grow as well. Google says it will continue to introduce new highlighted notebooks, including additional collections from its partnerships with The Economist and Atlantic.
The books of the future
Google says since the introduction of the opportunity to share notebooks last month, ”more than 140,000 public notebooks have been created on a wide range of topics”.
I find out that these highlighted notebooks are dangerous because each one is a small rabbit hole that I can gladly disappear for over an hour.
For example, I opened how to build a life -notebook based on Arthur Brooks’ columns in the Atlantic and asked what age was best to buy a house and I didn’t show up for another hour!
It’s a different experience than reading a book as you are constantly switching to an interactive way to take media, making learning so much more fun.
Comment on the new highlighted notebooks Nicholas Thompson, CEO of the Atlantic, said: “The books of the future will not just be static: Some will talk to you, some will develop with you, and some will exist in shape that we cannot imagine now. We are happy to work with Google in his groundbreaking work on this front.”
