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title: Notebook Guide
description: >-
  The **Notebook Guide** is a NotebookLM feature that automatically generates
  orientation documents — FAQs, study guides, timelines, and briefing docs —
  synthesized from all of the sources in a notebook.
canonical: >-
  https://liquidgold.cc/channel/everyinc/explore/term/notebook-guide-0a9f3fb34803
markdown: >-
  https://liquidgold.cc/channel/everyinc/explore/term/notebook-guide-0a9f3fb34803.md
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parent: 'https://liquidgold.cc/channel/everyinc/llms.txt'
channel: everyinc
updated: '2026-10-23T22:12:35.346Z'
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# Notebook Guide

Canonical: https://liquidgold.cc/channel/everyinc/explore/term/notebook-guide-0a9f3fb34803

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

## Definition

The **Notebook Guide** is a NotebookLM feature that automatically generates orientation documents — FAQs, study guides, timelines, and briefing docs — synthesized from all of the sources in a notebook.

In this channel's material, the **Notebook Guide** is a NotebookLM feature that automatically generates a set of orientation documents — **FAQs, study guides, timelines, and briefing docs** — drawn from *all* of a notebook's sources. It appeared among the launch-day feature demos in the Steven Johnson conversation, alongside Google Slides support with image understanding [^0cc0dd07-dc88-5d83-8cf7-2f6e48821796@1863]. The Notebook Guide plays a specific role in the research workflow modeled during the live session: it is the tool you reach for **before diving into a large, unfocused corpus**. In the Apollo 1 exploration — roughly 200,000 words of NASA oral-history transcripts with only a shoe-sized amount of fire-related content scattered throughout — the recommended loop begins by *orienting* with a Notebook Guide (FAQ, timeline, cast of characters) and only then moving on to asking for a reader guide, pinning notes, and hunting for parallels [^0cc0dd07-dc88-5d83-8cf7-2f6e48821796@2097].  - The **Notebook Guide** is NotebookLM's auto-generated set of FAQs, study guides, timelines, and briefing docs built from a notebook's sources. - It is demonstrated in the channel's material as the *orientation* step of a research loop — get the lay of the land before exploring the raw material in depth.