I Turned A Youtube Video Into Flashcards With Notebooklm - Here's How

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Google NotebookLM has flashcard and quiz features.
They tin thief pinch studying aliases learning a caller language.
You can't edit cards erstwhile NotebookLM generates them.

Google's NotebookLM is 1 of our favourite AI devices for productivity, and it conscionable sewage respective upgrades conscionable successful clip for finals season. Users tin now create flashcards and quizzes pinch nan NotebookLM app, which besides now has a four-fold larger discourse model and six-fold longer speech memory.

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How it works

According to Google, nan astir important update to NotebookLM this week is nan summation of flashcards and quizzes to further your learning connected nan go. Google says nan caller characteristic tin thief users memorize cardinal terms, dates, and concepts by pulling from their uploaded sources.

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Users tin usage flashcards to trial their knowledge and situation themselves pinch quizzes, arsenic good arsenic customize topics, difficulty, and nan number of cards wrong nan flashcard deck. They tin temporarily adhd aliases region sources wrong NotebookLM while utilizing nan chat aliases Studio tabs, ensuring responses are based connected applicable sources.

NotebookLM's chat improvements let users to customize chat to execute a circumstantial extremity aliases adopt a unsocial sound aliases role. For example, users tin nonstop chat to enactment arsenic a scrutinizing professor aliases analyse their provided sources from aggregate perspectives.

Still, AI devices often hallucinate, particularly erstwhile utilizing them for schoolwork. Be judge to verify immoderate claims aliases examples NotebookLM and akin products make earlier incorporating them further into an duty aliases study prep.

Try it for yourself

To create flashcards successful NotebookLM, guarantee your app is up to day pinch nan latest version. Then, upload your PDF, audio, website, YouTube video, aliases copied matter source. Then, click nan "Studio" tab and make a caller group of flashcards. NotebookLM's free tier allows for 10 sets of flashcards daily.

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I uploaded a YouTube video titled "Top French Phrases for Travel You Need to Know" by The Intrepid Guide. NotebookLM created a platform of 30 flashcards pinch questions like, "How do you opportunity 'thank you very much' successful French?" and "What is nan French mobility for 'how overmuch does it cost?'"

Whether you're studying for a last exam aliases learning a caller connection for travel, NotebookLM's flashcards tin travel successful handy. Longer YouTube videos make much flashcards, and my 12-minute illustration generated 30. One of nan drawbacks is that you can't edit nan flashcards. So, if you don't understand a flashcard's mobility and request it to beryllium reworded, you'll person to find different study tool.

If you upload a YouTube video, NotebookLM tin only import nan video's transcript. Users tin only upload nationalist videos, and precocious uploaded videos whitethorn not beryllium available. If you take to upload a website's URL, NotebookLM does not support paid articles; only nan visible matter connected nan website tin beryllium imported.

Another option

Quizlet allows you to edit your flashcards by uploading notes, files, aliases materials from Google Drive. Quizlet besides offers much study modes and flashcard customization options than NotebookLM, but requires a $36 yearly subscription to entree each its features.

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Otherwise, NotebookLM's flashcards characteristic was straightforward and easy to use. It's very basic, and I wouldn't urge utilizing its flashcards characteristic arsenic your main study instrumentality if you're presently successful school. However, if you person a straightforward trial to return astatine activity aliases want to study much astir a low-stakes topic, for illustration overseas connection phrases to usage while traveling, NotebookLM is simply a coagulated instrumentality to try.