Phase 1 - Getting Started
What NotebookLM actually is, setting up your workspace, and your very first conversation - assuming zero prior knowledge.
Free guide · By Lisa Monks
The NotebookLM Master Guide
NotebookLM is the AI tool I rave about most - the one that turns your documents, procedures and research into a business brain you can actually talk to. This guide takes you from “never opened it” to using it confidently in your business - 19 chapters, in plain English, with zero technical background required.
- Written for absolute beginners - every term explained like a human
- Currently being updated to cover NotebookLM's newest features
- Real business uses: your procedures, research, content and planning
- From the marketer who trains Social Media Examiner's AI Business Society on NotebookLM
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What's inside
Four phases, 19 chapters, one very capable you
The guide is built the way I teach: start from absolute zero, build confidence in small steps, and finish with strategies most people never discover. Dip in anywhere or work through it front to back.
Phase 2 - Core Research Tools
Working with your own sources, discovering and researching, and mastering notes - the everyday engine room.
Phase 3 - Creative Outputs
Audio and video overviews, slide decks, infographics, data tables, reports and study tools - plus sharing and collaboration.
Phase 4 - Advanced Strategy
NotebookLM for business success, advanced tips and troubleshooting, the new agentic notebook, and what's coming next.
Why this guide exists
The demo that makes rooms light up
Every time I demonstrate NotebookLM - from small business workshops in Cairns to Mari Smith's VIP clients in San Diego - the same thing happens. The penny drops, and someone asks: “where can I learn all of this properly?”
This guide is my answer. It's the same material I use when training Social Media Examiner's private AI Business Society on NotebookLM in marketing - written down, step by step, for someone starting from scratch.
“Lisa Monks is a thought leader in generative AI, particularly for Google Workspace and, specifically, Google NotebookLM… Lisa is one of the true ‘Gems’ of the AI world.”
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