Google NotebookLM Review: The Privacy-Focused AI Research Assistant
Researchers, Strategists, Creators, Students and business leaders, lend me your err views/reads?
Been researching Google’s NotebookLM and I thought it deserves a mention as one of the many options to organise and connect the dots on our own work.
What caught my attention is this statement on the Notebooklm website. ‘ We do not use your personal data to train NotebookLM.’
What is NotebookLM?
Google’s NotebookLM is your personal AI-powered research and writing assistant designed to make your information, knowledge and past work more structured and efficient. It’s like a smart online notebook that doesn’t just store your ideas and references but actively organises and helps you make sense of it.
Who should use it?
- Students and researchers who need to organise large volumes of material.
- Marketers and strategists who want faster insights from reports and data
- Writers and content creators who need inspiration and structured drafts
- Business leaders who want to summarise and distil knowledge into actionable takeaways
How can you use it?
- Upload your own documents, notes, or articles and let the AI surface connections you might miss
- Generate summaries, outlines, and talking points from complex information
- Ask contextual questions directly from your source materials
- Save time moving from scattered notes to structured narratives
Some freemium alternatives to NotebookLM are
Logically, Logseq and Saner.(Ai). Oh, Loseq offer local storage, which may give privacy champions even more conviction.
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