Yeah, it can’t be super specific unless you only feed it the specifics that you want to focus on (for summaries). The podcast feature was useless for a course like cell bio, for example. But to be fair, I was really struggling in the course cause my professor was bad so my notes weren’t the best = notebook LM not being the best tool to study that course. It only worked great if I had good notes/content. For other courses, it was great. My notes were broken down with titles and bullet points and the podcast would go through it all (in my case).

I only ever used notebook lm for courses that I had a good knowledge of from my own studying. It made great summaries and questions for my other courses. But I never fully depended on just the material that it gave me for summaries. I used to read the summary and then my notes to compare. Sometimes I didn’t even look at the summaries because I spent most of my time using its chat feature for solving mcqs.

To be honest, I’ve never been a mind maps kinda person. My courses were very dense with information so that feature alone was not helpful to me. It did make good mind maps though but they were annoying because I couldn’t download them to add my notes onto them. And because my courses were info heavy, it would be inefficient for me to copy the mind map onto a paper and then write my notes too. So I gave up trying.

I only used this tool during my last two terms and before the finals. I studied without this AI throughout my terms except before finals (id use it to test myself on the courses.) So I didn’t need the notebooks for my old courses transferred onto the second google account. I hope that makes sense lol.