NotebookLM in 10 Bites: Better Outputs (8/10)

Michael Wacht

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1d • 🟠 AI Practitioner

Bite 8 — Create Better Outputs

So far, you have:

✅ Signed up

✅ Created a notebook

✅ Added a source

✅ Asked your first question

✅ Created your first output

✅ Saved useful notes

✅ Turned a note into a source

✅ Used multiple sources and Web Fast Research

Now it is time to create better outputs by combining everything that we learned and leveraging ChatGPT.

Today, we are going to use everything you have built so far to get more useful results from NotebookLM. You can refer to the screenshots for the major steps.

This matters because better outputs usually come from better inputs. If you start with stronger sources, ask better questions, save useful notes, refine what matters, and bring in more context, NotebookLM has much more to work with.

That usually leads to better summaries, stronger guides, clearer checklists, and more useful visuals.

This is an important shift.

You are no longer just testing features.

You are starting to shape quality.

🧪 Better outputs come from better inputs

The quality of the output usually reflects the quality of the source material and the clarity of the request.

Now let’s use it.

👉 Create a better output

For today, we are going to ask NotebookLM to produce something practical and structured.

Steps:

☐ Open your notebook

☐ Go to the Chat panel

☐ Paste this prompt:

"Curate a list of the top 5 best practices for conducting meetings"

☐ Press Enter

👉 Now save it to a note

Once you have a response you like, save it so you can build on it later.

Steps:

☐ Click Save to note

👉 Now convert the Top 5 into a source

Steps:

☐ Go to the Note

☐ Click the three-dot menu

☐ Select Convert to source

👉 Now use ChatGPT to create the infographic prompt

At this point, you can ask ChatGPT to help you create stronger instructions for NotebookLM’s infographic field.

Ask ChatGPT this:

Create instructions to enter into the "describe the infographic you want to create" field to generate a professional illustration that has white space to show teams during orientation meeting. Include visual style.

👉 Now create the infographic in NotebookLM

Use the refined source, by checking only that source, and the ChatGPT-written prompt to generate the visual.

Steps:

☐ Go to the Studio panel

☐ Click Infographic

☐ In the “Describe the infographic you want to create” field, paste this prompt:

Create a professional infographic designed for use in a team orientation meeting. The infographic should visually present the top 5 best practices for conducting effective team meetings. Use a clean, modern business style with ample white space, simple layout, and strong readability. Include a polished professional illustration style with diverse team members in a meeting setting, using subtle corporate visuals and minimal clutter. Organize the content into clearly separated sections with concise headings and short supporting text. Use a modern flat or light semi-flat illustration style, soft corporate colors such as blue, teal, gray, and white, and clean icons to support each best practice. The overall look should feel executive-friendly, approachable, and presentation-ready, with enough white space so it can be easily shown to teams during an orientation meeting.

☐ Click Generate

☐ Review the infographic NotebookLM creates in the Studio list of outputs

You are now moving beyond basic use.

You are starting to turn information into something useful, structured, and easier to save, refine, and share.

That is where a lot of the value starts to show up.

Today, you learned how to create a better output, save it as a note, convert that note into a source, and use ChatGPT to help create a stronger infographic prompt for NotebookLM.

If you want to keep going, try a second prompt and save that result too. Then compare which note is

more useful.

Share what you create with the community.

NotebookLM in 10 Bites Posts

https://www.skool.com/ai-bits-and-pieces/classroom/d794c491?md=3c289d252c2946409be887ab1db8a5a1

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