Google is making AI in Gmail and Docs free – but raising the price of Workspace

Re:Google is making AI in Gmail and Docs free – but raising ... by danpalmer on Thursday January 16, 2025 @03:03AM (#42722642)

I’m getting a lot of value out of NotebookLM drafting documents. If I’ve got a bunch of notes that need to be in a coherent design doc, it can give me a good enough first draft for me to edit into shape. Alternatively when I’ve got a design doc for something, but need to submit, say, a work request to another org, NotebookLM can take my doc and turn it into another format based on a doc template pretty nicely.

These outputs still require editing for sure, but each one can easily save me half the time to write these things.

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Re:Google is making AI in Gmail and Docs free – but raising ... by mark_l_watson on Thursday January 16, 2025 @08:14AM (#42724673)

I only use NotebookLM a couple times a month, but when I use it I get value from it. I wanted to put out a new edition of a book I wrote last year so I ingested the PDF for the previous version of my book and some notes on what I was thinking of adding. Then in Chat mode I asked for suggestions of interesting topics that I didn’t think of and a few other questions, then got a short summary that I used as a checklist for things that I might add.

I probably spent 20 minutes doing this and got value for my 20 minutes.

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