Published May 2, 2026, 7:30 AM EDT Judy is an author at XDA with over a decade of experience writing about digital media. She's written for some of the largest names such as MakeUseOf, Android Central, Android Police. She always has an Windows computer handy and is always looking into upgrading. When she's not writing about tech, she's watching Return of the Jedi or playing with her Yorkie. I used to think of NotebookLM as one of those Google tools that seemed interesting at first, but not enough to open every morning. I could see the appeal, but I already had my tools for dumping my information and hoping it would help later. Everything changed once I tried using NotebookLM to pick a topic back up after leaving it alone for a few days. Now that I’m using it daily, I don’t have to reopen docs, go through tabs, and try to remember why I saved all this information in the first place. Now NotebookLM doesn’t feel like a demo. It’s the first tool I open every morning.…