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Automatically Add Blog Posts to Notebook LM

Search within your own writing using Notebook LM.

5 min readApr 15, 2025

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Illustration of a computer surrounded by chat bubbles and lightning bolts
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Have you checked out Google’s Notebook LM yet? Unlike other AI tools, this one searchs your own files rather than the entirety of The Internet. If you’re researching something or want to limit your search to specific sources, Notebook LM is amazing.

For example, I like to search within my own writing — figure out when I’ve written about certain topics before, or even brainstorm new ideas. Within Notebook LM, you can use a chat interface:

A screenshot of the chat interface of Notebook LM
Source: my own screenshot

Notebook LM will return results with citations. When you click on the citation, it will take you to the exact spot in your connected sources. Each source is manually connected:

Add source within Notebook LM
Source: my own screenshot

Here’s the problem I encountered: I want to search within my published blog posts. I don’t want to manually add new sources every time I publish a blog post. Your source can be a URL, but Notebook LM will only look at that specific URL, not all URLs within the domain (at…

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Anna Burgess Yang
Anna Burgess Yang

Written by Anna Burgess Yang

Freelance Writer. Operations Advice for Solopreneurs. Career pivots are fun. 🎉 https://start.annabyang.com/

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