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Your study wiki with NotebookLM

This is the simplest way to get the same result: an AI that answers only from your own textbooks and shows you the exact page. Nothing to install, and it is covered by your Google AI Pro plan.

Keep this page open while you study. Every prompt is ready to copy.

Listen, do not just read

Turn any chapter into a podcast for your commute

This is NotebookLM's standout trick. It can turn a chapter you upload into an Audio Overview, a natural two-voice discussion that explains the material like a podcast, built only from your own textbook.

  • Open your notebook, click Audio Overview, and it makes an episode from your source in a couple of minutes.
  • Download it and listen on the train, at the gym, or between wards. Real revision with no screen.
  • You can tell it to focus on one topic, so the episode is tuned to whatever you are weakest on.
This is the one thing the paid Claude Code route cannot do. If you learn well by listening, this feature alone makes NotebookLM worth starting with.

AWhat this is

NotebookLM is a free Google tool made for exactly this. You upload your textbooks and notes, and it becomes a tutor that only knows those sources.

  • It runs in your browser. No install, works on laptop and phone.
  • Every answer shows a citation you can click to jump to the exact place in your book.
  • Your Google AI Pro plan raises the limits, so you can add more sources and notebooks than the free level.
Best part for exams: because it only reads what you gave it, and it cites every answer, you can trust it the way you trust your own notes.

BThe one idea that makes it trustworthy

You want an AI that does not give wrong answers. This is how that works.

  • Regular chatbots guess from memory, which is where wrong answers come from.
  • NotebookLM answers only from the sources in your notebook. If something is not in your books, it tells you instead of making it up.
  • Every sentence it gives you carries a citation, so you can check the page yourself in one click.

CSet it up once

About ten minutes. We can do it together on the call, or you can follow these steps yourself.

  1. Go to notebooklm.google.com and sign in with your Google account.
  2. Click New notebook and name it MD Physiology.
  3. Click Add source and upload your PDFs: Guyton and Hall, Ganong, GK Pal, Berne and Levy, Boron and Boulpaep. Add your own notes too.
  4. That is it. The chat box on the right now answers only from those books.
Tip: you can keep one big notebook for all of physiology, or one notebook per subject. One per subject keeps answers tighter.

DYour weekly loop

Same idea as studying with notes, just faster. Repeat it for every chapter.

  1. Add the chapter as a source, or point to the book already in the notebook.
  2. Get a study guide. NotebookLM can generate one for the chapter in a click.
  3. Quiz yourself from the chat, a day or two later, from memory.
  4. Practice the viva by asking it to question you like an examiner.
  5. Find weak spots so you know what to revise next.
Use the built-in buttons too. NotebookLM can make a Study guide, a Briefing doc, an FAQ, and the Audio Overview podcast covered at the top of this page.

EThe prompts, ready to copy

Type these into the notebook chat. Name the real chapter.

1. Summarize the chapter

Summarize Chapter 1 of Guyton in clear, simple points. Give me the key concepts, the important mechanisms, and the terms an examiner would expect me to define. Only use what is in the source, and cite it.

2. Make flashcards

From Chapter 1 of Guyton, make 15 flashcards as question and answer pairs. Focus on definitions, values, and mechanisms I could be asked in a viva. Keep answers short.

3. Quiz me

Quiz me on Chapter 1, one question at a time. Wait for my answer before the next. After each answer, tell me if I am right, correct me from the source, and add one thing I missed.

4. Practice my viva

Act as my MD Physiology viva examiner on this chapter. Ask oral questions from basic to hard, and push one follow-up deeper each time, the way a real viva does.

5. Find my weak spots

Based on how I answered, list the three topics from this chapter I am weakest on and exactly what to revise for each. Cite the section in the source.

Explain something you are stuck on

Explain this concept from the chapter like a good teacher would, step by step from the basics. Use a simple analogy, then check I understood with one question.

FWhich one should you use

Both give you a tutor grounded in your own books. Pick by how you like to work.

  • NotebookLM, this page: free with your plan, nothing to install, cites every answer, and reads back to you as audio. Simplest to start today.
  • Claude Code and Obsidian, the other page: a paid plan, about 20 dollars a month, but it builds your notes into a permanent Obsidian wiki on your own computer that keeps growing.
A fair plan: start on NotebookLM today so you lose no time, and move to the Obsidian wiki when you want a permanent revision book you own outright.

Start whenever you are ready.
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