The Studio Panel: Where Documents Become Deliverables

Chat is for questions. Studio is for outputs. From your uploaded sources, you can generate podcasts, presentations, mind maps, flashcards, infographics, quizzes, and more. Here’s every tool in the Studio and when to use each one.

🎙️ Audio Overviews

NotebookLM generates a fully produced, two-host podcast conversation about your sources. The hosts discuss, debate, clarify, and make connections across everything you’ve uploaded. It sounds remarkably human.

Four audio formats

  • Deep Dive — Extended, exploratory conversation. Best for complex material.
  • Brief — Concise key-points summary. Best for a quick catch-up.
  • Debate — Two hosts argue opposing sides. Best for evaluating ideas or testing arguments.
  • Critique — Analytical teardown of your content. Best for editing or pressure-testing.
⚡ Interactive Mode: When an Audio Overview is playing, hit the Interactive Mode button and join the podcast live. Ask the hosts to go deeper on a topic, explain something differently, or argue the other side. This is the live demo moment that makes audiences lose their minds.

🎬 Video Overviews

NotebookLM generates video summaries of your sources with synchronized visuals. Choose from Explainer or Brief format. Visual styles include Whiteboard, Kawaii, Watercolor, and Classic — or let NotebookLM choose. Cinematic Video Overviews go deeper — fluid animations, rich visuals, and Gemini making structural decisions about how to tell the story of your sources. Think documentary, not slideshow.

🧠 Mind Map

Generates an interactive visual diagram of the concepts, themes, and relationships across your sources. Click any node and it opens a chat specifically about that concept. Best for understanding a new subject quickly, spotting gaps in your knowledge, and finding connections you didn’t know existed.

📊 Reports

NotebookLM generates structured reports from your sources — briefing docs, study guides, and content summaries.
🚨 The insider moment: NotebookLM used to generate Timelines and FAQs natively. They removed the buttons — but not the capability. Use the prompts from the Prompt Library to restore both features. The prompts give you more control than the buttons ever did.

🖼️ Infographic

Generates visual infographics from your sources in 10 distinct styles:
Style Best For
Sketch Note Presentations, live demos — hand-drawn feel audiences love
Kawaii Educational content, fun topics
Professional Business decks, client-facing work
Scientific Research, data-heavy content
Anime Creative projects, younger audiences
Clay Eye-catching, modern aesthetic
Editorial Magazine-style summaries
Instructional Step-by-step guides
Bento Grid Multi-topic overviews
Bricks Structured, modular content

📑 Slide Deck

Generates a full slide deck from your uploaded sources. Request changes to specific slides via chat, submit factual or stylistic feedback per slide, and export as PPTX (PowerPoint) or PDF. Best for turning research into a presentation without starting from scratch.

🃏 Flashcards

Generates question-and-answer flashcard sets from your sources. Can be exported as CSV for import into Anki or other spaced-repetition tools. Best for students, exam prep, or anyone memorizing a large body of material.

❓ Quiz

Generates multiple-choice or short-answer quiz questions grounded in your sources. Works as a self-assessment or can be printed and shared as a knowledge check. Pairs well with Google Classroom integration for educators.

📋 Data Table

Extracts structured data from your sources into a table format — useful for comparing options, extracting product features, summarizing survey responses, or pulling structured facts from unstructured text. Export to Google Sheets for further analysis.
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