Everyday AI Podcast – EP 721

3 New NotebookLM Updates You Can’t Miss: Editable Slides, Mobile Updates and More
Host: Jordan Wilson
Date: February 25, 2026

Episode Overview

In this hands-on episode, Jordan Wilson spotlights three major new features added to Google’s NotebookLM, one of his “most used AI tools” and a repeated “AI Tool of the Year” on the Everyday AI show. Jordan breaks down each update—editable slides, expanded mobile capabilities, and conversational Studio generations—while demoing how business professionals can take advantage of them in their daily workflows. He emphasizes their impact on productivity, learning, and visual content creation, offering honest takes, practical advice, and a few live examples.

Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Why NotebookLM Matters

• Jordan expresses surprise at not covering NotebookLM’s updates since November, given their magnitude and NotebookLM’s centrality for power users and everyday professionals.
• He positions NotebookLM as critical for keeping up with AI’s fast pace in business:

  “Not only does this new set of updates in NotebookLM change where and how we can access it, but it also greatly increases the capabilities of what we can even produce with it.” (00:30)

2. The Three Essential NotebookLM Updates

A. Mobile Updates—Editing Slides & Media on the Go

• What’s New: Full ability to customize infographics, slide decks, and generate or view video overviews directly from the mobile app.
• Impact:

  “Being able to bring over some of these customization features from the desktop to the mobile app… now, all of a sudden…the NotebookLM app [goes] from something that’s pretty useful to something like, okay, this is something I might need to start using every single day.” (30:48)

• Upload screenshots in app, edit media assets, and interact with most features previously desktop-only.

B. Conversational Studio Generations

• What’s New: You can now conversationally generate Studio assets (slide decks, infographics, etc.) directly within the NotebookLM chat pane, iterating collaboratively with the AI before producing final outputs.
• Why It’s Better:

  “When you collaborate with AI before you kind of give it an assignment, it’s going to be much better.” (20:54)

• Pro Tip: Iterative back-and-forth yields higher-quality, more tailored presentations than static prompts.

C. Editable Slide Decks—Fine-Tune Content & Design

• What’s New: In-app slide deck revisions allow you to edit content, style, color schemes, and even data sources on a per-slide basis.
• How It Works:
  • Click the pencil icon ("Revise") in the Studio tab.
  • Edit slide titles, change color schemes, update data references, and adjust specific elements seamlessly.
  • See “pending changes” and track modifications per slide.
• Jordan’s Take:

  “You actually do have way more granular control. Aside from using the presets that they offer, you actually have a ton of granular control.” (37:15)

Feature Walkthroughs with Timestamps

Introduction, Teasers, and Context

• [00:16]–[02:30]
  • Jordan welcomes new listeners, recaps the purpose of the show, and teases a downloadable tutorial for listeners who repost the episode.

NotebookLM Quick Overview

• [04:08]–[10:00]
  • Recaps NotebookLM’s three-pane interface: add sources (left), chat grounded in those sources (middle), Studio assets (right).
  • Explains grounding to avoid hallucinations:

    “NotebookLM is grounded in the sources that you provide … which helps with one of the biggest problems of large language models today… hallucinations.” (09:03)

Live Demo: Creating & Iterating Presentations

• [10:00]–[19:30]
  • Shows creating a slide deck from research notes on “right and wrong ways CEOs implement AI.”
  • Demonstrates conversational iteration (“give me more depth, include more studies and stats…”).
  • Compares outputs between direct Studio prompts and chat-generated context.

Editing Slides in Real Time

• [19:30]–[28:00]
  • Demonstrates new slide deck revision interface.
  • Edits slide titles, changes color schemes (“more green and gray”), updates example years, and alters design elements live.

Mobile Feature Spotlight

• [28:00]–[31:00]
  • Reviews new capabilities for creating and editing slides, infographics, and video overviews in the NotebookLM mobile app.

Output & Multi-Format Trick

• [32:00]–[36:40]
  • Explains how to split a 16:9 slide deck into vertical panes—a novel workflow for social posts and web/mobile layouts.

  “Now with these three panes, it really changes what you can use it for… because you’re probably not going to put out a 16 by 9 slide on social media.” (33:22)

Comparing Results: Default vs. Iterative Outputs

• [36:40]–[39:20]
  • Reviews “default” non-iterated slide deck output:

    “This might be, in terms of like, zero shotting something, one of the better versions. The slides are super clean.”

• Reviews “conversationally iterated” output—better content quality and personal context, though design could differ.

Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• On AI fatigue and the importance of visuals:

  “I don’t know if it’s just me, and this is terrible as a former journalist to say—I have text fatigue. I do. The cost and barrier to entry to quality text has gone down…now I’m swamped with it.” (39:02)

• On NotebookLM’s unique strengths over alternatives:

  “Nothing else compares to what you can produce in terms of time to output quality… as what you can in NotebookLM with these slides. And then again, now that you can edit them, that makes it even a bigger no brainer.” (32:15)

• Advice on workflow customization:

  “Make sure you put your own taste, your own personality, your own background…when I do want something personalized at a much greater detail, I can always drop [my] files in as sources or in the chat and say, ‘Hey, make sure you customize all of this…’” (38:02)

• Jordan’s workflow cheat code:

  “I use these slides all the time because one thing that I personally do not enjoy doing is reading long blocks of text. This workflow…brings multiple deep researches in and creates a presentation, even if I’m not publishing it. It helps me learn.” (37:41)

Summary Table: Main Feature Enhancements

| Feature | Description / Benefit | Timestamp | |-----------------------------------|-------------------------------------------------------------------|-----------------| | Mobile Editing | Announced mobile support for editing slides/infographics/videos | 28:00–31:00 | | Conversational Studio Generations | Collaborate in chat to develop assets iteratively | 10:00–20:00 | | Editable Slide Decks | In-place editing for design, content, color, cited sources | 19:30–28:00 | | PowerPoint Export | Download slides as PPTX files (as flat JPEGs for now) | 33:00 | | Multi-pane/Vertical Export Trick | Custom vertical slide outputs for social/mobile use cases | 32:00–33:40 |

Final Takeaways and Recommendations

• Try the new features: Whether you use slides, infographics, or video overviews, the latest NotebookLM changes “meet us where we’re at” and make visual, interactive AI assets far more accessible and customizable, including on mobile.
• Iterate for quality: Don’t just prompt—collaborate with NotebookLM in the chat pane to get more personalized, actionable, and higher-quality studio outputs.
• Take advantage of edits: The new slide editing features rival or surpass competing platforms, decrease need for costly credits elsewhere, and enable much finer control over AI-created visual assets.
• For even more value: Jordan offers to send listeners a video workflow and seven use cases for the vertical pane trick—if they repost the episode on LinkedIn.

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