Google’s AI note-taking assistant is officially graduating from experimental phase to full release with over a dozen new features in tow. Meet NotebookLM – previously code-named Project Tailwind – now upgraded with expanded capabilities aiming to organize even your messiest writing endeavors.
At its core, NotebookLM summarizes the chaotic notes, quotes, and sources you feed it into coherent summaries, highlighting important topics and follow-up questions for clarity. But today’s milestone launch bundles the helper with Google’s cutting edge Gemini Pro AI for boosted reasoning and contextual skills.
There’s plenty more to enhance user experience based on five months of testing feedback too. Take the new noteboard space that lets you pin inspirational quotes or writing snippets for easy reference. In-document citations now directly link sources so you can view key passages in full context. The assistant can even generate whole new summarized notes from highlighted excerpts in a click.
Other fresh functionalities run the gamut from grammar and style critiques to recommending related talking points and templates to shape your drafts into emails, scripts, and more. Sources get more breathing room at 200,000 max words while forthcoming updates over the next month include one-stop note consolidations and combined PDF support.
For now, access remains limited to testers in the US aged 18+ on desktop and mobile. But even in official launch form, Google still classifies NotebookLM as experimental – don’t expect AI perfection here. Early limitations aside, it’s an encouraging glimpse of structured writing aids through machine learning.
So notebook hoarders nationwide, rejoice: the tech giant’s AI notetaker is very much ready for primetime, quirks notwithstanding. Let’s just hope its summarization skills are robust enough for MY idea scatterstorms!
