My current workflow for getting AI conversations into NotebookLM
Been using NotebookLM for ~8 months. Sharing the workflow that finally clicked for me, curious how others handle this.
My setup: 4-5 notebooks, each scoped to one area of life. Engineering. Research reading. Q4 planning. Personal. Each notebook collects sources for that area only.
What I push in: whole AI conversations from ChatGPT/Claude/Gemini, articles I read, docs sites I'm evaluating, YouTube transcripts of long interviews, meeting notes.
The friction: native upload flow doesn't take a multi-message AI chat directly. My old flow was copy chat, paste into Google Doc, upload Doc as source. Five steps, multiple times a day, got old.
So I built a small Chrome extension that puts a save button on the AI sites and dumps the chat straight into whichever notebook I pick. Free for casual use. Happy to share the link if anyone wants it.
Questions for the sub:
- How do you organize your notebooks? One giant notebook, one per project, or by life-area like me?
- Reorganize sources later, or dump and search?
- Anyone actually using audio overviews regularly?
- Any source type that surprised you with how useful it was?
Edit: the extension is called VaultMind — Knowledge Hub for NotebookLM on Chrome Web Store if you want to check it out.