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How to review the PAU syllabus using NotebookLM and prepare for the selectivity exam

May 30, 2026 by usatoday24

Let’s explain to you how to review the PAU syllabus using NotebookLMthe tool artificial intelligence from Google. NotebookLM It allows you to use Google AI but based only on the data you upload, such as your notes, which opens many doors to help you and even gamify your learning. We are going to start by explaining what it is and why it is useful to study this tool. Then we will tell you the previous steps to be able to use it to help you with your studies, and we will end by summarizing its main functions when it comes to helping you with the PAU What is NotebookLM and what makes it useful for studying NotebookLM is a Google tool based on Gemini. It is a platform where you can create notebooks, and in each of them upload specific sources. These sources can be files that you upload by hand, but also links or even YouTube videos. Once you have your notebook configured with your own fonts, you can ask Gemini questions, and the AI will answer you based solely on information from your sources. Come on, it won’t look for information on the Internet, but only in the sources that you upload. This means that you will be able upload the selectivity syllabus and ask questions or create content based solely on your notes and the syllabus. You will not get information from any other site. You can even create different notebooks where you can upload notes by subject. Thanks to this, you will be able to ask the AI for content that you do not understand, but also you can ask him to ask you questionssummaries, outlines, or test yourself by creating exams. In fact, by proxy you can even create podcasts with which you can listen to your notes or specific lessons whenever you want. How to configure it before starting To use NotebookLM for this purpose, you first have to configure it. To do this, start by entering notebooklm.google.comand create a new notebook. NotebookLM is a tool that you can use for free, although with a limit of 50 free fonts. If you want your notebook to have more, then you will have to pay. When you’re creating your first notebook, you’ll be able to upload your first font. You can upload fonts in several waysusing a website whose data you want to use, uploading files that can be PDFs, images, documents or audios, YouTube videos, Drive folders or copied text. Here, what you will have to do is upload your syllabus and/or your notes as sources. You can do it with all the formats you think are necessary, and you can decide whether to upload them all, upload only those of one signature, whatever you prefer. To give you ideas, you can upload the following elements: PDFs from your notes or textbook Google Drive Documents directly class presentations in PDF format Web pages (pasting the URL) Copied text directly if you have notes in another format All the topic in case you have it in some format The more complete the material you uploadthis platform will work better later. Upload your textbook in PDF, upload it in its entirety. If you have notes, upload them, and the same with any other material. NotebookLM processes everything at once and cross-references information from all sources when you ask a question or request. How to use it to review the syllabus Once you have uploaded all your notes and data, you can now enter the Chatwhere you can ask Gemini any question. Google’s AI will answer you using only your notes as a source to find the answers. You will also have the column of Studiowhere you will find other options such as creating an audio summary as if it were a podcast, a video summary, or a presentation. You can also create flashcards to review, reports, etc. In addition to this, these are other things that you will be able to do with NotebookLM once you upload your notes: Ask him questions from the syllabus as if he were a teacher: The AI will have all the data, so if there is something you don’t remember, you can ask it to explain it to you so you don’t waste time searching for information. Request a summary of a topic: If you have uploaded the textbook or your notes, you will be able to ask it to make summaries of specific topics. You can tell the topic number or even the theme. Come on, you can ask him to summarize topic 3 of Biography or the Second Spanish Republic. Ask exam questions: This is one of the most powerful functions to prepare for the PAU, because you can test your knowledge by asking the AI to generate an exam. You can ask him X specific questions on a topic, and even have them be multiple choice. You can ask them to ask you the questions one by one so you can answer them individually as if it were a chat, or whatever you prefer. An audio to review without looking at the screen: We’ve mentioned it before, and it’s one of the most popular features of NotebookLM. It is about Audio Overviewa function with which you request that a podcast be generated with two voices discussing the topic, explaining and debating it. It is perfect to review while doing sports or other things. Create a study guide: You can also ask it to generate a structured study guide with key concepts, important dates and possible exam questions. You can copy, print or save the result to continue reviewing without having to have the tool open. Limitations and what not to expect from NotebookLM As we have seen, NotebookLM is a very useful tool to help you study for the entrance exam. But it has a series of limits that should be known and taken into account when working with it. The first is that He will … Read more

How to have your own specialized AI with the data and knowledge that you give it using NotebookLM

March 11, 2026 by usatoday24

Let’s explain to you how to have an AI trained with your own dataso that you can then ask questions related to them. For this we are going to use NotebookLMwhich is slowly becoming the artificial intelligence more useful and productive. What we are going to do is explain to you in a very simple way the main function of this tool, which is to create a notebook and upload your own sources of knowledgeso that all the questions you ask are based on this information you have uploaded. To process the information and generate the answers, the model will be used Gemini. It will maintain features such as understanding what you write and generating text, but the answers will be based solely on the sources you have added. An AI specialized in what you tell it The first thing you have to do is enter notebooklm.google.comand create a new notebook. NotebookLM is a tool that you can use for free, although with a limit of 50 free fonts. If you want your notebook to have more, then you will have to pay. When you’re creating your first notebook, you’ll be able to upload your first font. You can upload fonts in several waysusing a website whose data you want to use, uploading files that can be PDFs, images, documents or audios, YouTube videos, Drive folders or copied text. When you upload the first source, your notebook will be created. In it, at the top you can give it a specific name to differentiate it. You will have a tab of Sources where you can upload new elements as sources, and activate or deactivate the ones you want whenever you want. If you enter the tab Chatthen you will go to a Gemini type chat. In it, you can ask him questions about whatever you want, and will respond to you with the data from the sources that you have uploaded. If the answer to your question is not in the sourcesthen Gemini within your NotebookLM will respond clearly with a message. In this message he will tell you that the documents provided do not have mentions of what you have asked him. You have a configuration button in the section Chatwhere you will be able to define both the role of AI and its objectives in conversations and the length of the responses it gives you. This way, you can adapt it to what you need. You also have a tab Studiowhere you have different types of elements that you can create based on the sources or documents you have uploaded. So, if you are looking for more than textual answers, you can also create other elements such as audio summaries to listen to whenever you want, presentations or flashcards. In Xataka Basics | The best prompts to save hours of work and do your tasks with ChatGPT, Gemini, Copilot or other artificial intelligence

My new favorite way to learn on any topic is free and is already in Spanish: Notebooklm

May 25, 2025 by usatoday24

Learning is changing. Or, rather, we are beginning to relear how we learn. With AI as the protagonist. In my case, the click Definitive was caused by a tool: Notebooklm. At first I used it as who tantles a new toy. I uploaded some PDF, he launched some question, compared his answers with those of Chatgpt … I soon started seeing him with other eyes: as a tool to think out loud. Or better: to think accompanied. The moment Eureka He came one night, when I was realizing that there was a book that had been postponing months. It was one of those 300 -page trials that revolve around the same idea, something that sometimes goes very well (‘Atomic habits‘) And others get fatal (‘The monk who sold his Ferrari‘). And he suspected that the second could happen with him. Although I was interested in the subject – the economy of attention – the book was going to stretch it to exhaustion. So I uploaded it to notebooklm and I asked him to do something better than a summary: a conversation, a podcast. I asked him to simulate a talk between two voices to comment on the book, his ideas, his implications, his weak points. The result surprised me. It was not a memorable podcast, but interesting enough to stay attentive for eleven minutes while doing dinner. It was a way of knowing if it was worth going further. After eleven minutes listening to circular discussions around the same idea, I decided not to do it. I will end up throwing some diagonal reading to chapters that interest me especially, but I will hardly invest the time to read it completely. The next day I was repeating the experiment. This time with ‘The love algorithm‘, which is presented as an investigation into Tinder but actually goes much further. Explore the cross between technology, psychology, surveillance capitalism and human relations. Each chapter opens a new line of reflection: the way in which desire is constructed, the way in which algorithms condition us, what ‘consent’ means in a digital environment. That book was perfect for Notebooklm. It generated a rich conversation, without resulting, with diverse ideas that are linked and discussed. He did not take away the desire to read it, on the contrary. He convinced me that it was a great idea. Beyond the podcast, I took advantage that I had at hand ‘OPERATION ELOP‘, the book that speaks of the last years of Stephen Elop in front of Nokia, just before the sale to Microsoft. It was great to see his “line of study”, which even proposes a questionnaire to see if you understood the ideas well and retweet the information or not. Image: Xataka. And you can go beyond books, of course. Take a few PDFs and discuss them. The same with articles with a conductive thread. The possibility of creating podcasts ad hoc Personalized – not something done for thousands, but for oneself – is bestial. Sometimes they are voices that arise from admiration, others from suspicion. Of course, It is not perfect. I would love to adjust the duration of the audio. There are issues that could be dispatched in five minutes. Others well deserve an hour of debate. The personalization that allows right now is scarce, and summaries are rather short. There are also limits: sometimes omits relevant data or remains superficial. And of course, The dreaded hallucinations with which you have to go with lead feet. Even with those failures, it is still useful as the first pass, as a tanteo before knowing if it is worth deepening more. Or to give us a first varnish of knowledge. And something very valuable: It is we who put the sources. We do not listen to generalities difficult to draw or limit ourselves to completely alien editorial decisions. Your interests, your compilations, your readings. Notebooklm does not replace reading or study, but it is A new entrance door. Fast, accessible, almost playfulto understand what something is going on. That previous decision, in this world of information on information and entertainment, is a good compass. And one last lesson: the well -managed AI does not take away the work of learning, it takes away your fear of starting. In Xataka | Google has put a price on the future of AI: $ 250 per month Outstanding image | Xataka with Mockuuuups Studio

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