Choose what works for you
Here’s what Liquid Gold is best for: deep exploration and discussion of ideas across multiple channels. Start with prepared articles and newsletters, connect creators in a notebook, and explore a subject beyond any single video.
“As the founder of Liquid Gold, I use all of these tools. I choose whichever is most convenient for what I’m doing. I built Liquid Gold because I couldn’t find a tool that let me quickly discuss and learn across multiple channels. That’s the gap I wanted to fill.”
Use Liquid Gold when you want to…
Understand a creator’s body of work
A useful idea can be spread across interviews, tutorials, and years of uploads. Read topic articles that bring a channel’s ideas together, with links back to the source material when you want the full context.
For example: Explore a founder’s approach to building a business across their channel.
Discover what you didn’t know to ask
Browse prepared articles and newsletters for ideas worth your attention. You can start exploring without assembling a source list, crafting a prompt, or waiting for a new answer to be generated.
For example: Find an unfamiliar approach to product design, then follow the ideas that interest you.
Think through a real project
Collect relevant channels in a notebook. Explore where creators agree, where they disagree, and which assumptions matter for your situation. Keep the evidence close as you develop your own judgment.
For example: Compare bootstrapping and fundraising advice before planning your next steps.
Build understanding over time
Organize channels around a subject you care about, save useful material, and return to the sources as your questions evolve. Connect published knowledge to a compatible AI through MCP when you want to work with it further.
For example: Build a notebook around AI engineering and revisit it as you work on new projects.
Get oriented in an unfamiliar field
Read introductory material from several creators to explore the vocabulary, recurring ideas, and questions people disagree about. Follow the source links when you need a fuller explanation.
For example: Move into product management by exploring channels on discovery, research, and prioritization.
Prepare for a meaningful conversation
Bring relevant channels into a notebook before a meeting, interview, or discussion. Ask about the key ideas and competing views, then use the original sources to check the points you want to raise.
For example: Prepare for a conversation with a founder by comparing how different operators talk about hiring their first team.
Explain what you’ve explored
Use the articles and your notebook to work through a subject, compare examples, and outline an explanation in your own words. Keep source references close so your audience can explore further.
For example: Prepare a team exploration session on AI agents using examples from several engineering channels.
Give a team a shared starting point
Send colleagues useful published articles before you discuss an idea. Start from the same material, revisit the evidence together, and spend the conversation on what it means for your work.
For example: Share readings on customer research before a product workshop, then discuss which practices fit your team.
Liquid Gold vs NotebookLM
Both help you learn across sources. Liquid Gold puts prepared reading at the center: discover an article or newsletter, find an idea that matters, and follow it deeper. Asking a question is a next step, not an entry requirement.
Read distilled articles and newsletters without collecting links or deciding on a prompt. Explore a whole channel, connect creators in a notebook, and build understanding across a domain of knowledge.
Open → Read → Discover → Go deeper
Add or discover sources, explore them through grounded chat, and generate reports and overviews. Shared and featured notebooks also offer curated starting points—you do not always have to build a notebook from scratch. [4]
Choose sources → Explore → Create
A comparison of workflows, not a scorecard. Each tool can be useful at a different point in your exploration.
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| Your workflow | Liquid Gold | NotebookLM | Perplexity | YouTube AI | ChatGPT |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Start with | Prepared, source-linked articles and newsletters. Start reading without assembling sources or writing a prompt. | Sources you add or discover, or a shared or featured notebook. Use summaries, reports, and overviews to explore the material. [4] | A research question, web search, or files you bring to a project. [1] | The video you’re watching, or conversational video search through Ask YouTube. [2] | A conversation, uploaded material, project context, or a web search. [3] |
| Connect context | Follow a channel’s ideas across videos. Combine channels in notebooks and explore a domain across creators. | Work across a notebook’s sources with grounded chat, source discovery, and research tools. | Research across sources; keep conversations, files, and instructions together in Projects. | Ask follow-ups while watching. Ask YouTube search can find relevant clips across videos. | Projects bring chats, files, and instructions together, with memory and tools for ongoing work. |
| Return to | Published articles, newsletter editions, and your notebooks. Read first, then bring the knowledge into your AI through MCP. | Your source collection, saved notes, generated reports, and audio or video overviews. | Research conversations and reports, with export and sharing options. | The source videos and relevant moments discovered through the viewing or search experience. | Saved conversations, project sources, and responses you can reuse in later work. |
Use NotebookLM to research a source collection, Perplexity for open-ended research, YouTube for watching and discovery, or ChatGPT for working through ideas. Liquid Gold adds a curated knowledge library you can read directly or connect to a compatible AI client through MCP.
Web reading is free. MCP access is a paid feature with limited free trial usage.