Published May 7, 2026, 7:00 AM EDT I use only a select few AI apps to boost my productivity and learning. Not all of these are my favorites, though I use each of them almost daily. NotebookLM is one such app. I use it for learning quickly from YouTube videos. Not only that, but it also changed some of my old habits for the better. For example, I no longer watch phone reviews on YouTube. I can count many such examples, but those are events from the distant past and are stories of how NotebookLM became an integral part of my life. I’m used to it and feel comfortable using all its brilliant AI tools . However, I recently took what I’d call a more courageous decision and tried to kill my old habit of using NotebookLM the way most people do. It was only an experiment, but little did I know it would facilitate a huge shift in how I use the AI tool. I no longer use NotebookLM, which many would say is the ‘right’ way, because I actually learned more and learned faster in doing so. Here is how.…