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We've been talking about this for weeks and weeks and weeks about AI tools as they come and go, that you find out that this AI tool exists, then you find out what it's supposed to do, how you can use it, what you can use it for. And then you get into the hardier part of it where you try to figure out is this relevant to what I'm working on and what I'm trying to accomplish and can actually help me with that stuff without doing that stupid thing where I want someone to learn. I want an AI tool that, that learns stuff and creates things for me which you don't want. And I've been having that relationship with NotebookLM for the past year or more, and I've been getting a little bit more into it over the past couple of months. Normally what I use it for is for something like the new OS updates that came out this week, where I know the information, I've got all my sources for the information, I've read the information, I've made notes on this information. How, however, now that I'm writing and speaking about it, I want to be able to say, oh dang it, the new secure memory feature. Is that in iOS only or is that also in macros? And be able to ask that question and get a response, including a link to Here is the document that you gave me that gave me that information. Here's where you can reread that and take your notes from it. I'm trying to, but it's been very, very useful. Useful for that. Recently I added a web plugin for chrome. It's called NotebookLM Web Importer. That can kick things up to a different level. Normally when I'm doing research or just acting on the web, I will bookmark things into a bookmark manager, into different categories and tags so that I can then find what I'm looking at, organize it later on. This is a tool that will. I'll continue to do that, but now I can simply say if I'm spending a week using iOS 26 and trying to learn more about it and find different perspectives about it. If I find a resource that's actually very, very interesting, or an article review that's very interesting, I can just click on this plugin on the web and then it will simply add it to my iOS 26 iPados 26 notebook in notebook LM without having to really think about it. And then when I come back to that notebook a few days later, it is like 18 articles smarter than it was four days ago. All because again, thinking, oh, I no longer have to have that conscious thought, oh, this would be interesting. For that research I'm doing, I will now open up a web view of my notebook LM and then use the interface to add this to the corpus of knowledge of it. It's like, no, that's worth saving. Boom, done. Again, I'm navigating how best to use this sort of stuff. The temptation would be that now I don't really have to read anything. I can just use the this notebook. When I'm collecting 100 different web links of something I'm studying. I can just let this thing create a briefing paper for me, which would be bad. But it's really, really interesting. For this sort of stuff where there's so much information, this is like the history of the web and using the web for me, there's so much useful information that you come across. But if you don't capture it in some fashion either via bookmark and a book bookmark that you can find and retrieve later on of taking notes on the actual information, putting it in a notebook that you've actually created, you maintained, or actually capturing the web pages themselves so that if they go away in five or six years, you can still get back to them. All the time you spend getting the information is no good unless you can actually take advantage of it, use it in some fashion. And this plugin really does sound like it will take that to the next level. Again, I fear for how tools like NotebookLM could be abused by people who, who don't want to think, don't want to read, don't want to study, don't want to search. They just want someone to do their homework for them. But for people who have to assimilate a lot of information from a lot of different sources, but it's hard to keep track of 200 different research papers on how blood pressure readings are taken through the skin. I know I've read this somewhere, I just don't know where it was. And I remember that this data was this. I remember that it was always like 41.2% of the time time it will be able to diagnose hypertension. But I know this 92% of the time it seems like a good way to capture that stuff. And what I like about this plugin is that it has three different tiers for free. You can just use it as a basic tool. Again, just capture what you look in front of you. You can manage notebooks, send it to different places for 20 bucks a year. It gives you a whole bunch of other stuff where you can just basically oh, here's an RSS feature feed to the scholarly journal. And just click on the stuff that you actually want to add to this journal. You can do things like import things from YouTube playlists. A lot of extra things that kind of automate the process of. Here is a source that keeps being updated. That's specifically for the things I'm trying to keep on top of every time an article appears there. I want this to be added to this specifically topic based notebook. It seems like a really, really super powerful tool. I'm getting a lot of advice advantage out of the free version of this as I'm trying to get used to where this fits into my workflow. But I could definitely see myself paying 20 bucks for it and who knows, maybe spend 30 bucks for the lifetime plan that gives you extra features and you never have to pay for it ever again.
