You can now publicly share your NotebookLM notebooks and Audio Overviews

Google’s NotebookLM has been quietly establishing itself as a seriously powerful AI-powered research and writing assistant, and a new update is making it an even more versatile tool for collaboration and sharing knowledge: you can now create public links to share your NotebookLM notebooks with anyone.

For those who might not have dived in yet, NotebookLM isn’t your typical generative AI chatbot that pulls information from the broad internet. Instead, it’s an AI tool designed to help you understand and work with your own specific documents and sources. You upload materials like PDFs, Google Docs, text files, or even add website links, and NotebookLM uses that information as its knowledge base.

From there, you can ask questions about your sources, get summaries of lengthy documents, generate outlines, brainstorm ideas, and much more – all grounded in the content you provided. It’s like having an intelligent research assistant that’s an expert specifically in your material, which is fantastic for students, researchers, writers, or anyone needing to synthesize large amounts of information.

Sharing your notebooks just got a whole lot easier

While users could already share their NotebookLM projects with specific individuals, Google is now making it simpler to share more broadly. As announced on The Keyword, you can now make your notebooks public via a shareable link.

Once shared, viewers won’t be able to edit your original source content, which is important for maintaining the integrity of your notebook. However, they can still fully interact with the public notebook by asking it questions or exploring the already generated content within it, such as any audio overviews, FAQs, or briefing documents you might have created.

Making NotebookLM more shareable in this way truly makes it an “even more powerful tool for exploration, understanding and creation,” as Google puts it. It transforms NotebookLM from a primarily personal research tool into a platform for disseminating interactive, AI-enriched information. We love to see useful AI tools become more open and collaborative, and this is a great step for NotebookLM.