QUESTIONS · ORGANIZING NOTEBOOKS
How do I find a notebook quickly in NotebookLM?
Short answer
The NotebookLM home page shows notebooks as a grid with little filtering, which gets slow past a few dozen. The NotebookLM Ultra Exporter workspace and side panel list every notebook with a search box and filters for collections and tags, and let you pin up to 5 notebooks to the top.
What to know
- Search matches notebook titles within the current filter.
- The side panel works from any tab, so you can jump to a notebook while reading.
- Clear titles help: start with the project or course name.
Google changes these menus often. The item's own menu in your notebook shows what is built in today.
Free or Pro?
Free, with no daily export quota and no website account needed. Pro covers the extension only; it does not include a Google subscription or raise NotebookLM's own limits. Current prices are on the pricing page.
Frequently asked questions
Can I search the text inside all notebooks at once?
No. NotebookLM answers within one notebook. To search across your material, export notebooks to Markdown and search the folder, for example in Obsidian.
Related guides
The workspace is a full-page dashboard for NotebookLM. It lists every notebook, source, Studio output and Audio Overview across your account, with search.
The side panel keeps your NotebookLM library open next to any web page. From it you find and open notebooks, save the current page to one, and browse your.
How to export a whole NotebookLM notebook to an Obsidian vault. You get Markdown files with YAML frontmatter and a wiki-link index, organized by sources.
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.
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.
Google documents a limit of 50 sources per notebook on the free tier, with each source limited to 500,000 words or 200 MB.