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Google just updated Notebook LM with a
feature that uses Gemini to turn your
raw notes into professional slides
instantly. It is fast, free, and the
results are honestly amazing. Let me
show you exactly how it works. All
right, step one. Head over to
notebookm.google.com.
Once you're in, click create new
notebook. Now, let's quickly name this
so we stay organized. I'll call mine AI
automation. On the lefth hand side,
you'll see the prompt box where Gemini
is integrated. And if you click that
dropown, you get two options, fast
research and deep research. Deep
research is incredibly powerful because
it basically does hours of manual work
for you, but that obviously takes a bit
of time. So, for this video, I'm going
to select fast research just to keep
things moving. So, I'm going to type in
my topic, AI automation for small
businesses, and press enter. This
usually takes a minute or two to scour
the web, gather the information, and
create sources for our notebook. And the
research is complete. I'm going to click
this import button. And now we have a
notebook fully populated with credible
sources that it pulled automatically.
You can see all the data right here.
Now, one quick cleanup tip is that if
you see any sources highlighted in red,
it just means they didn't load properly.
Simply click the three dots right here,
select delete all failed sources, and
you are good to go. Over here on the
right side, you have the studio panel.
Now, there is a lot of power packed into
this section, including the audio
overview and the video overview. Those
are honestly incredible features for
repurposing content, but today we are
focusing specifically on the slide deck.
So, I'm going to find the slide deck
card and I'm going to press this edit
button right here. And this opens up the
settings panel so we can configure
exactly how the slides are generated.
First option is the slide type. You have
detailed deck or presenter slides.
Detailed deck gives you textheavy slides
with comprehensive info which is perfect
if you need to create a standalone
report. But for now I want presenter
slides. This option is much cleaner and
more visual. It gives you just the key
points so the audience focuses on you
rather than reading a screen. So I'm
selecting that. Next you can set your
language. And right beside that is the
length setting where you can choose
between short or default. I'm going to
go with default. This allows the AI to
intelligently analyze your content and
decide the perfect length automatically.
Now, here's the powerful part. You can
give it custom style instructions. Since
this is using Gemini Nano Banana Pro to
generate the slides, you can tell it
exactly how you want them to look. I'm
going to type this. Use a modern design
with dark backgrounds, clean typography,
and professional visuals. Keep it
minimal and easy to read. You can
customize colors, fonts, the overall
aesthetic, whatever you want. This is
how you get slides that match your
brand. Once your settings are ready,
click generate. Now, this takes a couple
of minutes to generate. That might feel
long, but it isn't just grabbing stock
images and throwing text on slides.
Gemini Nano Banana Pro is creating
custom visuals for each slide, designing
the layout, and making sure everything
looks perfect. All right, the slides are
ready. You can see the generated deck
card right here. So, I'm going to click
on it to open the preview and then hit
this expand button to see it in full
screen. And look at this. These are
legitimately professional slides. The
design is clean. The dark mode aesthetic
is exactly what I asked for, and the
typography is actually readable and
wellplaced. Now, if you want to present
these immediately, just click the play
button at the top right to open
presentation mode. You can click
anywhere or use your arrow keys to
navigate. And when you're ready, click
the download button. This saves your
slides as a PDF. But here's the
important thing to know. This PDF
contains images, not editable text
objects. So, if you try to select text
or move elements, you can't. The slides
are locked as images. If you need to
edit them heavily, you'd have to convert
the PDF to Google Slides or PowerPoint
separately. But for most presentations,
especially if you're just presenting,
this works perfectly. So that is how you
build a presentation from a simple text
prompt. But most of the time, you aren't
starting from zero. You already have the
content. Maybe it's a PDF report, a
messy transcript from a client meeting,
or a dense academic paper. For that,
let's go back to the dashboard. I'm
going to click create notebook on the
top right to start fresh. And
immediately, you get this panel asking
you to upload your content. You can see
all the options right here. Google Docs,
text files, direct YouTube video links,
or PDFs. For this example, I'm going to
upload a PDF. Let's use this marketing
document right here. This is a dense
textheavy document that would normally
take me hours to summarize manually.
Once that is loaded in, I'm actually not
going to jump straight to the slides
yet. Instead, before I generate the
deck, I want to use the chat interface
to guide the model. I'm going to type
into the chat, identify the top five key
statistics from this report and the
three biggest risks mentioned. By having
Gemini analyze the document in the chat
first, we are effectively verifying that
it understands the core data. This
forces the model to prioritize the
numbers we care about. Okay, it gave me
the stats. Now I know it understands the
context. So let's go back to the slide
deck panel on the right. I'm going to
click edit again and this time I'm going
to select detailed deck. This ensures we
get dense readable slides suitable for a
report rather than just visual cues. For
style instructions, I'm going to type
use a professional corporate aesthetic,
white background, blue accents. Focus on
data visualization and use bullet points
for clarity and hit generate. Now, it is
scanning the entire PDF, extracting the
key data points and structuring them
into a cohesive layout. And it's done.
Let's open this up. Immediately, you can
see the difference. It's using the clean
white background I asked for, and it
successfully pulled the specific risks
data we identified earlier, laying it
out in a structured list. However, it's
a little too long. It generated about 14
slides. And while this is perfect for a
deep dive report, if I just need to
present a quick 5-minute summary, this
is overkill. So for that, I don't have
to delete slides manually. I can just
tell Gemini to fix it. So let's close
the preview and go back to the slide
deck settings panel. I'm going to keep
the detailed deck setting because I
still want that data density, but I'm
going to change the length from default
to short. And while I'm at it, let's
tweak the style just a bit. I'll add
prioritize only the most critical
financial metrics. Click generate again.
Now, instead of trying to cover every
single page of the PDF, Gemini is
re-evaluating the content to find only
the absolute highlights. Okay, the new
version is ready. Let's take a look.
This is perfect. It's down to just six
punchy slides. It cut out the background
context and the methodology sections,
and it goes straight into the ROI stats
and the risk factors. The design is
still that clean corporate look I
wanted, but the flow is much tighter.
And the best part is you have total
control. You can customize the length,
style, and density to match exactly what
you need in seconds without starting
over from scratch. So, there you have
it. You just saw the entire workflow. We
went from a blank page to a full
professional slide deck in minutes. All
powered by Gemini 3 Pro. Now, generating
slides is just the beginning. If you
want to see how to use this tool to
actually learn complex topics faster
than anyone else, you need to watch this
video right here. It breaks down the top
1% notebook LM workflows that nobody is
talking about yet. Click that and I'll
see you right