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Copy-paste prompts that beat “summarize”, trusted sources you can import in one click, and the tools the community actually uses. Works the same now that NotebookLM is Gemini Notebook.

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Featured prompts

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  • 1
    Structured synthesis with rules

    The heavyweight. A research-grade answer with explicit rules, so the model can't paper over gaps or drift outside the sources.

  • 2
    Build a topic index first

    Run this before anything else on messy material — transcripts, mixed PDFs, scattered notes. The index becomes the map for every later question.

  • 3
    The focused brief

    Kills the warm-up minute and the both-sides framing. The single most repeated community fix for Audio Overviews.

  • 4
    Citation-forcing instruction

    Set once per notebook. Every answer arrives pre-wired for verification, and “not in the sources” replaces confident guessing.

  • 5
    Exam question generator

    Twenty questions across three difficulty tiers, with answers kept at the end so you can actually test yourself.

  • 6
    Decision memo from transcripts

    The after-meeting artifact that meetings never produce themselves: decisions, owners, deadlines, contradictions.

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Everything here is curated from what the NotebookLM community — 29 prompts, 26 sources, 5 tools — actually finds useful, and rewritten for clarity. Found something that belongs here? Share it in r/notebooklm.