The author discusses how integrating Google Keep with Gemini has revitalized their use of the note-taking app, allowing for more powerful organization and information retrieval.
This article discusses how NotebookLM can replace several tools in a typical productivity stack, specifically for mind mapping, YouTube learning, progress tracking, and document sorting/organizing.
* **Mind Mapping:** NotebookLM's interactive mind maps are more robust and useful than dedicated diagramming tools like Mermaid, especially for visual thinkers and UX design tasks.
* **YouTube Learning:** NotebookLM streamlines YouTube learning by analyzing transcripts, allowing simultaneous viewing, AI-assisted summarization, and note-taking – eliminating the need for apps like Notion or Obsidian for this purpose.
* **Progress Tracking:** While NotebookLM's timeline feature is gone, it can still generate detailed tables to track projects and tasks based on provided sources, offering insights and improvement suggestions.
* **Document Sorting & Organizing:** NotebookLM helps organize messy documents by prompting it to categorize and sort files, making the manual naming and organization process more efficient.
* **Mind Mapping:** NotebookLM's interactive mind maps are more robust and useful than dedicated diagramming tools like Mermaid, especially for visual thinkers and UX design tasks.
* **YouTube Learning:** NotebookLM streamlines YouTube learning by analyzing transcripts, allowing simultaneous viewing, AI-assisted summarization, and note-taking – eliminating the need for apps like Notion or Obsidian for this purpose.
* **Progress Tracking:** While NotebookLM's timeline feature is gone, it can still generate detailed tables to track projects and tasks based on provided sources, offering insights and improvement suggestions.
* **Document Sorting & Organizing:** NotebookLM helps organize messy documents by prompting it to categorize and sort files, making the manual naming and organization process more efficient.
The author details their switch from Google Docs to Outline, a free and open-source collaborative editor, highlighting its simplicity, Slack integration, privacy features, and sufficient functionality for their needs, despite some missing features like advanced table creation and detailed version history.
Exploring different ways to take notes in Emacs, including Org mode, Deft, Denote, Org-roam, and Howm.
