NotebookLM, one of Google’s most viral AI products, just got a really useful upgrade: users can now publicly share notebooks with a link.
Until now, NotebookLM has served primarily as a private tool. It is well suited for compiling research, summarizing PDFs, and generating FAQs from uploaded source material. With this latest update, any NotebookLM user can publish a notebook for others to read and explore. Viewers can ask questions based on the content and interact with AI-generated summaries or briefing documents. At the moment, however, viewers cannot change the source material itself. Oh, and you need your own NotebookLM account to access a shared public notebook.
Interestingly, these notebooks exist somewhere between a traditional blog post and a lightweight chatbot. Study guides, product documentation, or strategic frameworks can now live in a semi-interactive format that offers more than a static read.
I like this new feature. Will NotebookLM join Docs, Slides, and Sheets as a mainstream productivity tool? Time will tell. Until then, let’s see if this kind of collab workflow is as useful as it sounds.
Author’s note: This is not a sponsored post. I am the author of this article and it expresses my own opinions. I am not, nor is my company, receiving compensation for it. This work was created with the assistance of various generative AI models.