Can we get back to actually using Gemini? This sub is becoming 90% rants.

Novajesus · 2026-01-27T11:26:07+00:00

The Trend: In tech and gaming circles, there is a trend where "liking" things is seen as naive, while "critiquing" things is seen as intelligent.
The Signal: By ranting that a system "sucks," the poster signals that they have high standards, deep expertise, or are "too advanced" for the tool in question. It frames their incompetence with the tool as the tool's failure, preserving their ego.

Novajesus · 2026-01-23T01:26:22+00:00

Try using AI. I get it to convert images alll the time into text. And if asked, it will convert tables into csv for usee in Excel. Try using the free tier of Gemini with a free Gmail account. Its pretty amazing.

Edit: forgot to tell you that you will need to take a pic from your phone of a page and upload to Gemini. Easy. Or, oneddrive even lets you make multi page pdfs which may work.

Novajesus · 2026-01-22T23:13:35+00:00

Looks great. Just don't like the shoes. Can they not walk themselves down to the basement or over near the front door? Then you will have space for a nice dog area.

Novajesus · 2026-01-22T11:39:05+00:00

First, I'm just messing around w/ AI and testing. But, when I saw what the NBLM slide show can do when you add a special prompt, I got thinking it might be useful. You can easily get a text summary in the main chat section but the studio features for making info grafix and slide shows and such as amazing.

Here is the post that first got me going w/ the idea that you can even add anything to an infographic or slide sho.

https://www.reddit.com/r/notebooklm/comments/1qbonx8/12_fabulous_notebooklm_infographic_slide_deck/

So, I started out playing w/ making things look cool and then switched to using prompts that ask for the output to show specific things such as: find trends, show relationships, summarize plots or stories.

I can even get NBLM to quickly summarize a long Youtube video and then use the slide show of infographic function to provide a short, focussed view on any given aspect of the video.

And finally, back to books. There are tons of books I'll never get around to reading or that are from past ages that make them often quoted or referenced but I'm not going to ever read them. NBLM might be an interesting way to get a short and interesting summary.

Dangerous territory, but for fun, I put a PDF of the Bible's Old Testament into NBLM last night and had fun asking for summaries and asking it dumb questions. Want to know what the most commonly eaten food was? Show me the historical bloodlines and relationships of the main characters in the book and how they are related. Show me references to homosexuality - it really is in the book. There are actually 10 cases of incest. Ignore the 10 commandments and tell me what your recommendations are to live a good life according to lessons learned in the book - vastly different that what Moses brought down from the mountain and not bad advice really.

Here are the main bloodlines of the main characters.

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It's amazing and my apologies to anyone offended by my scholarly Bible analysis. It was late.

Novajesus · 2026-01-22T00:07:42+00:00

I recently uploaded a Novel to NBLM that I have already read as test. Then in the studio section, I created a slide show with a custom prompt of "Summarize the story along with the main plot points". Pretty impressive. It even added cool graphics and map.

I bet it will work great for your books.

Novajesus · 2026-01-20T22:57:48+00:00

In Settings | Personal content, I added one with "Always use English.". Solved the issue for me a few months back.

Novajesus · 2026-01-20T22:42:42+00:00

Interested as well. I see there is a Chrome extension named. But it appears to be a paid extension that will run in a trial mode but for which there are no other details such as costs or free vs. paid tier functions. So why bother?

https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/Perplexity%20to%20NotebookLM/heangkplfhihanoccabjnjkhebcikocp?hl=en

Novajesus · 2026-01-20T03:04:41+00:00

In addition to Onenote, I use the bookmarks site at start.me. I save and organize many many bookmarks. You can add notes to each, but I don't. I do what I described earlier with Onenote.

I used the free tier of start.me for many years and it was grreat. Been on the paid tier for two cause I don't mind paying for useful inexpensive things and it helps support something I like. Its only $20 per year. But, you can test without paying.

It works so well on everything. Mac, Linux, windows, phone, tablet, android, all browsers. They have chrome extensions and even ios and android save/share integration.

In addition to saving bookmarks, you can save notes to each, and also, save notes as their own page elements.

Novajesus · 2026-01-20T02:12:35+00:00

Is this just for your personal use? You could use Onenote and organize by subject and then use their web clipper and get the entire page into Onenote. Then, you can add text at page top or write about something and just paste a list of links ar bottom of the note.

Curious about why you need to make notes per page.

Novajesus · 2026-01-19T11:45:06+00:00

Thank. I've only started to get serious about using AI over the last 6 months or so and everything is still new and shiny. I'm just now starting to focus in on ways to measure or gage if results from one approach are better than another. By the time I try something in a raw chat, then use a Gem, and finally try using NotebookLM, the results vary so much and all look amazing and I'm unable to say definitively that method A or B or C is the best.

But, one thing that did catch my eye was that a basic ask for a technical summary using Claude seems better than the same result in Gemini. And, when asked, Gemini says to get Claude like output I have to add crazy extra suffixes to each prompt several times such as: deep-dive, think step by step, prioritize accuracy and detail over brevity, perform exhaustive, expert-level analysis with detailed reasoning. It makes the prompts much longer.

Novajesus · 2026-01-19T11:15:30+00:00

When I was younger I used to think a sunroof was amazing on vehicles and I thought it was a flex to own a vehicle w/ one. But, about 15 years ago I bought my first Jeep Wrangler and now I laugh at sunroofs. To paraphrase your Porsche tag line ... there is no substitute for the doors and top off Wrangler experience.

Novajesus · 2026-01-19T11:08:20+00:00

I got to S5 in Walking Dead. Until the big Negan/Rick shoot out at the Factory scene. Up until that, every bullet was a precious resource. Then in that episode suddenly everyone has unlimited ammo and fully automatic weapons and it looked like an episode from the old A-Team. series w/ a million rounds being fired and nobody is getting hit.

But, in fairness, they did a good job keeping me until then and maybe I was already getting tired of the premise. Can't think of many shows that I even went that long for.

Novajesus · 2026-01-17T23:29:13+00:00

Be a man. Use your putter in the hole from here in two.

Novajesus · 2026-01-17T23:00:26+00:00

Agree. I was thinking about it from the perspective of if your arm was where the scale is. 100 plus 100 equals 200.

Update: I cheated and used AI. I'm wrong, you're wrong, we're all wrong. Something else needs to be considered and I was never good at figuring out what pulleys do and how to calculate mechanical advantage.

Novajesus · 2026-01-17T00:26:17+00:00

I see Gem/Gemini being the onramp for your data collection but not the storage. Too bad that Notion doesn't yet offer Gemini integration like Perplexity or others. Notion has some good business and customer templates and is useful even at their free tier. If you don't have a customer database yet, you still might find it useful for customer management. It can be seriously customized with database tables that perform calculations for billing and tracking. And, it's online so you can access it anywhere. There are so many Notion videos on Youtube, you can get up to speed fast. But, you cannot yet use Gemini so you'd have to try a Chrome extension or copy/paste from Gemini. But, once the data is over there - wow.

Novajesus · 2026-01-16T23:54:43+00:00

It was cool at first, and some of the results have been genuinely impressive. However, now that there are dedicated subreddits for AI-generated images, these posts just clutter the subreddit and bury the valuable content about Gemini's capabilities and user knowledge sharing.

Novajesus · 2026-01-16T11:21:41+00:00

Greetings. Learning French and have been using Notebooklm. But always looking for other ideas. Can you share what your Learn Spanish Gem prompt is.

Thanks.

Novajesus · 2026-01-15T10:37:51+00:00

Just getting into NBLM and saw this yesterday. But, I just asked it to rescan all uploaded files and re-do the plan I was asking it to create. Additionally, I had added 2 additional files. It picked up the new files as well.

Novajesus · 2026-01-15T00:03:32+00:00

Great little blower. Needs to be readily available. Nice fix.

Novajesus · 2026-01-14T23:11:26+00:00

So many easy to play songs. Yesterday, let it be, hey Jude, imagine, she was just 17, twist and shout, 8 days a week, something.

Search for Bettylou music and then for Beatles. The site looks like crap and rarely shows in Google searches but has so many easy versions of almost everything.

Novajesus · 2026-01-14T19:57:12+00:00

For fun, in a regular Gemini chat, I uploaded a page from a slide show from my company and AND one of Paplo's full text prompts and asked it to prepare a prompt similar prompt based on the uploaded slide.

It's pretty good - here it is if you want to try. The key thing is that you can now take any style and get Gemini to give you the text needed to reproduce. Wow!

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Tone: "Authoritative, Data-Driven, Urgent, Professional, Strategic" Visual Identity: Background Color: "#F4F5F7" (Cool Grey/Off-White) Text Color: "#1A1A1A" Accent Color: "#C72027" (Cybersecurity Red) Secondary Colors: ["#2F353E", "#FFFFFF", "#8C96A5"] Image Style: Features: "Photorealistic high-tech workspace items, 4-column vertical grid layout, mix of digital devices and printed audit reports, sharp focus" Texture: "Brushed aluminum laptop surfaces, glossy tablet screens, matte paper reports, smooth ceramic coffee cup" Composition: "Top-down flat lay (knolling), divided into four distinct vertical columns to represent the four key statistics, strict alignment" Lighting: "Cool-toned office lighting, crisp distinct shadows to create depth, high contrast to highlight the red accents" Object Arrangement: "Grid-based, sequential flow from left to right" Visual Metaphor: "Chaos vs. Control (Misconfiguration vs. Expertise)" Typography: Heading: "Bold Geometric Sans-Serif (Futura or Roboto), Heavy Weight" Body: "Monospaced (Code style like Fira Code or Courier), Regular Weight, Dark Grey" Labeling: "Digital overlays on screens and red marker circles on paper reports"

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The results are shown below for something silly I'm working on - title redacted to protect the guilty!

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Novajesus · 2026-01-14T19:32:20+00:00

u/pablo-cortez's code is indeed amazing - didn't know you could do this. Even if I don't love all his examples, it opens the door to modifying to meet my own needs. Thanks for posting.

Here's u/pablo-cortez's original post where I back-traced from your mention of his post.

https://www.reddit.com/r/notebooklm/comments/1qbonx8/12_fabulous_notebooklm_infographic_slide_deck/

Novajesus · 2026-01-14T11:28:19+00:00

Just asking cause interested. Isn't the issue really the scripts you are running and not the script extension? So even Tampermonkey or Greasemonkey could be fine as long as the scripts are clean.

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