NotebookLM questions, answered directly

Partly. NotebookLM (Gemini Notebook) can send notes and reports to Google Docs, data tables to Google Sheets, and download slides, flashcards, infographics.

Open the note and use its menu to send it to Google Docs, which is the only built-in route.

Not with NotebookLM itself. Gemini Notebook saves your chat history to the notebook but has no export or download for it; you can only copy a single reply or.

Open the slide deck in the Studio panel and use its download menu to save a PPTX; each slide in that file is one image.

Because NotebookLM generates each slide as a single picture. The PDF or PPTX you download contains one flat image per slide, so there are no text boxes to.

NotebookLM only lets you save a picture of the mind map as it is currently expanded. To get the whole map as a file, open it with NotebookLM Ultra Exporter.

NotebookLM downloads flashcards only as CSV, which Anki does not import cleanly. With NotebookLM Ultra Exporter, open the flashcard deck, click Export and.

NotebookLM quizzes run only in the browser and have no export. With NotebookLM Ultra Exporter, open the quiz, click Export and choose a target: Word or PDF.

Open the Audio Overview in the Studio panel, open its menu and choose Download. NotebookLM saves the audio file to your computer, one overview at a time.

Open the finished Video Overview in the Studio panel and use its download option to save the video file.

For one note or report, use the built-in option in its menu to send it to Google Docs. For chats, several notes, or anything the built-in option does not.

NotebookLM has no print layout, so printing the page gives a cropped screenshot of the app. Export the note or report to PDF first, then print the PDF.

You cannot by copy and paste: the numbered citation chips in NotebookLM are interactive elements, so they vanish from pasted text. Export instead.

NotebookLM does not offer a download of your sources or of the text it extracted from them.

NotebookLM sends data tables to Google Sheets only. To get a file for Excel, open the data table with NotebookLM Ultra Exporter installed, click Export and.

NotebookLM has no Markdown export. NotebookLM Ultra Exporter adds one for notes, reports, chat history, sources, mind maps, flashcards, quizzes and data.

Open the infographic in the Studio panel and download it; NotebookLM saves a PNG image. NotebookLM Ultra Exporter also saves it as PNG, JPG or WebP for free.

NotebookLM has no backup or full export, so the only copy of your notes, chats and Studio outputs is in your Google account.

NotebookLM cannot transfer ownership of a notebook. You can share it with the other account, which leaves the original owner in control, or rebuild it there.

There is no built-in way to export every notebook. With NotebookLM Ultra Exporter you archive notebooks one at a time for a single free archive, or with Pro.

NotebookLM has no dependable one-click duplicate for a whole notebook with its notes and chats.

Yes. Gemini Notebook now keeps the conversation in each notebook so it is there when you return, which older versions of NotebookLM did not do.

Sharing a notebook requires the other person to have a Google account and open NotebookLM. To send the content itself, export it as a file: a PDF or Word.

NotebookLM lists notebooks in one flat grid and has no folders of its own. NotebookLM Ultra Exporter adds collections, which behave like folders, plus tags.

The NotebookLM home page shows notebooks as a grid with little filtering, which gets slow past a few dozen.

NotebookLM removes sources one at a time from each source menu. With NotebookLM Ultra Exporter, tick the sources in the Sources panel and choose delete.

NotebookLM has no saved prompts; you retype or paste them each time. NotebookLM Ultra Exporter adds a prompt library: save a prompt once, then type / in the.

Untick the sources you want to exclude in the Sources panel; NotebookLM answers only from ticked sources.

Google documents a limit of 50 sources per notebook on the free tier, with each source limited to 500,000 words or 200 MB.

You cannot raise the limit, but you can fit more into it. Merge related sources into one text source, combine small text files before importing, and split.

NotebookLM accepts website links through its add-source dialog, a few at a time. To import a long list, paste the URLs, one per line or mixed into text, into.

NotebookLM takes YouTube videos one link at a time and does not expand a playlist. Paste the playlist URL into the YouTube import of NotebookLM Ultra.

NotebookLM fetches links from Google servers, not from your browser. A page fails when it needs a login, sits behind a paywall, blocks automated requests, or.

NotebookLM cannot open a ChatGPT conversation from its link. Either copy the conversation and paste it as a text source, or open the chat with NotebookLM.

NotebookLM accepts PDF, text and Markdown files, Word documents, Google Docs and Slides, web page links, YouTube links, audio files, images and pasted text.

A PDF over 200 MB or 500,000 words is rejected by NotebookLM. Split it into parts and upload each part as its own source.

Mostly no. A web or file source is a copy taken when you added it; only Google Docs and Slides sources can be re-synced by hand.

Yes. Google renamed NotebookLM to Gemini Notebook on July 16, 2026. It is the same product: your notebooks, sources and Studio outputs carried over, and many.

Yes. NotebookLM Ultra Exporter runs on the notebook pages under their new Gemini Notebook name. Version 1.2.7 was checked against it in November 2026.

On its own, Gemini Notebook (NotebookLM) sends notes and reports to Google Docs and data tables to Google Sheets, and downloads slide decks as PDF or image.

Yes, the core is free and needs no account. Markdown, LaTeX, text, HTML, JSON, mind map, flashcard and quiz exports have no daily quota.

Free has three kinds of limit. Premium export formats, meaning Word, PDF, image PowerPoint, long image and video, share 5 successful exports per local day.

NotebookLM Ultra Exporter is an independent Chrome extension distributed through the Chrome Web Store.

Open the NotebookLM Ultra Exporter page in the Chrome Web Store, click Add to Chrome and confirm.

No. NotebookLM Ultra Exporter is a Chrome extension for desktop. The NotebookLM mobile apps and mobile browsers do not run Chrome extensions, and there is no.

The extension does not yet know which purchase is yours. Open its account panel and sign in with the Google account you paid with; the plan then syncs by.

Usually the notebook tab was open before the extension was installed or updated. Refresh the tab.

Start from the gap you need filled. Extensions for NotebookLM fall into three groups: importers that add web pages and videos, exporters that get notes.

Three ways. Play the overview in the NotebookLM mobile app; download the audio file on a computer and copy it to the phone; or publish overviews to a private.

There is no official connection, so you move Markdown in both directions. Out: export notes, chats and mind maps from NotebookLM as Markdown, or archive the.

NotebookLM and Notion do not connect directly. Export from NotebookLM as Markdown and import or paste it into Notion, which converts headings, lists, tables.

Cite the original documents, not NotebookLM. Use the citations in an answer to find the passage, confirm it in the source, and reference that source in your.

NotebookLM has no automation of its own and no public consumer API. NotebookLM Ultra Exporter adds browser-side automation: rules that react to tags and.

No. NotebookLM runs on Google servers and needs a connection to chat or generate. What you can take offline are its outputs: export notes as PDF or Markdown.