I originally thought Google’s NotebookLM was one of those impressive-but-slightly-pointless AI demos designed to show off what the company’s models could do. But somewhere along the way, it became one of the most genuinely useful AI tools I use every week.
What started as an experimental research notebook has quietly turned into an external brain for organizing appliance manuals, puppy training notes, travel plans, scattered ideas, and all the tiny pieces of information that normally disappear into forgotten folders and old emails.
