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title: noteboard
description: >-
  The **noteboard** is the notes area in NotebookLM where you save passages from
  your sources — via _add to note_ — while exploring; pinned notes then act as a
  selectable context the model can focus on for follow-up prompts such as
  _suggest related ideas_ or generating a grounded deliverable.
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# noteboard

Canonical: https://liquidgold.cc/channel/everyinc/explore/term/noteboard-d50574ce4d1e

Parent: [Channel index](https://liquidgold.cc/channel/everyinc/llms.txt)

## Definition

The **noteboard** is the notes area in NotebookLM where you save passages from your sources — via _add to note_ — while exploring; pinned notes then act as a selectable context the model can focus on for follow-up prompts such as _suggest related ideas_ or generating a grounded deliverable.

In this channel's material, the **noteboard** is the area of NotebookLM where you collect saved passages while exploring your sources. When an answer or citation resonates, you use _add to note_ to pin it onto the noteboard — Steven Johnson does exactly this during the Apollo 1 session, clicking through citations and saving the relevant passages [^0cc0dd07-dc88-5d83-8cf7-2f6e48821796@2204].The noteboard is more than a scratchpad: pinned notes become a **focused context** you can select for follow-up prompts. In the live exploration, Johnson selects his pinned notes — including the Piccard quote — and asks the model to generate an opening script grounded only in those curated notes [^0cc0dd07-dc88-5d83-8cf7-2f6e48821796@3114]. Notes and sources are separate contexts in NotebookLM; you can focus the model on one or the other, and the _suggest related ideas_ prompt works over a selected note to find related material in the sources [^0cc0dd07-dc88-5d83-8cf7-2f6e48821796@2779].The noteboard embodies the _emergent chaos_ approach: dump what resonates in one place — including things you don't yet understand — and let search and the model surface connections later. Curation happens on the noteboard; the machine makes the links.- The **noteboard** is NotebookLM's notes area where saved passages from citations and answers collect. - _Add to note_ saves a cited passage onto the noteboard during exploration. - Pinned notes form a **separate selectable context** you can prompt against — e.g., generating a script from curated notes only. - The _suggest related ideas_ prompt bridges a selected note back to the sources.