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Unlocking New Competitive Advantages with NotebookLM: Editable Slides, Mobile Upgrades, and Conversational Asset Generation
Businesses navigating rapid AI developments need more effective ways to turn information into actionable assets—faster and with greater control. NotebookLM’s latest updates offer tangible advances for business leaders who manage or influence strategy, sales, operations, or talent. This article details the exact features recently added—editable slide decks, advanced mobile customization, and conversational asset generation—and translates their business value into real competitive advantages.
Editable AI Slides: Precision in Business Storytelling
Editable slides within NotebookLM empower organizations to move beyond generic AI-created presentations. Now, users can revise every element in AI-generated slide decks directly in the platform—changing titles, colors, imagery, or even updating data to reflect the latest statistics or market intelligence. Edits are tracked with a clear interface and pending changes can be previewed and applied seamlessly.
For instance, one of the most immediate values is the ability to update evidence within slides, ensuring decision-makers are always referencing material from the current year, not outdated information. Users can customize slide design, align colors with brand schemes, and restructure layouts without waiting for new versions or jumping between applications. This granular control lets leaders fine-tune pitch decks, strategic presentations, or reports with increasingly minimal effort. Importantly, completed slides can now be exported as PowerPoint files (with the caveat that layers aren’t yet editable after export), streamlining the process from draft to boardroom.
Mobile AI Updates: Asset Customization On the Go
The ability to work mobile is no longer optional. The newest NotebookLM mobile features deliver true asset customization—users can now refine slide decks and infographics within the mobile app itself, not just the desktop version. This addresses a common friction point: earlier, even seasoned NotebookLM users defaulted to the browser for feature completeness. Now, crucial customization features are translated directly to the app, meaning decks, infographics, and video overviews can be created or modified in situations where a laptop isn’t in reach.
For field leaders, executives on the move, or team members coordinating remotely, this update enables immediate iteration or last-minute adjustments—such as updating stats, correcting visuals, or tailoring content for a unique client discussion. The ability to upload screenshots, adjust designs, and select narrative style from a phone is positioning NotebookLM as an everyday tool, not just a desktop solution.
Conversational Asset Generation: Strategic Iteration and Depth
The conversation-driven asset creation now offered in NotebookLM streamlines iterative development directly within the chat interface. Rather than inputting prompts in isolation and hoping for the best, users can co-create and refocus assets—such as slide decks or infographics—based on evolving context, clarifying goals, or highlighting specific case studies, stats, and pitfalls as they surface during planning.
Business leadership benefits specifically from this model. For example, when preparing materials on “best practices and pitfalls for AI implementation at the CEO level," conversational iteration lets users request more granular details, sector-specific studies, or newly available statistics. It’s possible to categorize insights, generate actionable plans, or ask for industry examples, with each refinement reflected instantly in the final asset.
This dramatically reduces misalignment and time spent recreating assets, especially when synthesizing large, company-specific research pools with external information. Decision-makers can now focus asset generation on what really matters—acts, not abstracts.
Export Flexibility and Workflow Integration: From Slides to Social
Output is as valuable as input. NotebookLM’s updates allow presentations to be formatted for different contexts—including the creative use of vertical, multi-pane slides optimized for social media, web, or mobile experiences. This expands business use cases: slides aren’t just for the conference room, but can be repurposed instantly for LinkedIn carousels, client-facing digital assets, or internal mobile-first knowledge sharing.
Direct download as PowerPoint, simple import into Canva for finer edits, and highly customizable styling (color, layout, fonts) mean leaders are less bottlenecked by design or technical constraints.
Conclusion: The Exact Business Value of NotebookLM’s New Features
The specific improvements in NotebookLM—editability, full mobile asset customization, and conversational, collaborative asset creation—shrink the time and effort required to generate high-quality, on-brand materials. They reduce dependence on static workflows and generic outputs, all while putting granular control back into the hands of business leaders. For organizations looking to keep pace, these tangible advances represent more than incremental upgrades—these are new operational standards for turning information into results.
To unlock the full potential, consider integrating these precise capabilities into existing workflows for internal education, sales enablement, thought leadership, and strategy alignment. The specific control and flexibility reflected in these updates are critical differentiators for high-performing teams in 2024.
Topics Covered in This Episode:
- NotebookLM Editable Slides Feature Explained
- NotebookLM Mobile App Customization Updates
- Conversational Studio Generations in NotebookLM
- Step-by-Step Slide Deck Editing Workflow
- Full Comparison: Custom vs. Iterative Slide Creation
- NotebookLM PowerPoint Export and Output Formats
- Advanced Use Cases for Vertical Slide Format
- Deep Research and AI Source Grounding in NotebookLM
Episode Transcript
Jordan Wilson [00:00:16]:
I've been doing you a tremendous disservice. That's because I just realized we haven't talked about NotebookLM since November. I can't believe myself. Not only because it's one of my most used AI tools and probably a lot of yours as well, but because there's a handful of new features that I think you can't miss because not only does this new, set of updates in notebook l m change where and how we can access it, but it also greatly increases the capabilities of what we can even produce with it. So if you have never heard of NotebookLM or if you're not sure, let's just say for the last two years, we've named it our, you know, AI tool of the year for different updates, to and within the platform. So it is a complete powerhouse. And even though we've had a lot going on here at Everyday AI with all the new big updates from the major major model providers, we've been doing our start here series, our 2026 AI prediction and roadmap. Enough.
Jordan Wilson [00:01:27]:
We have to dive into what's new in notebook l m, go over three notebook l m updates you can't miss, including editable slides, mobile updates, and more. So let's jump into it. If you're new here, welcome. My name is Jordan. This is Everyday AI. This thing's for you. It's an unedited, unscripted livestream podcast, helping everyday business leaders like you and me keep up with the nonstop AI updates. What's important, what's not, how to use it to grow our companies and career.
Jordan Wilson [00:01:53]:
So if that's what you're trying to do, awesome. Join us. We're on this journey together. Starts here. But make sure you go and check out our website. Sign up for the free daily newsletter, youreverydayai.com, and we're gonna be recapping today's show as well as all of the other news you need to know to be the smartest person in AI at your company. Another thing that's gonna help with that, yeah, that very 2026 AI prediction and road map series. If you haven't checked that out, yeah, why not? Make sure you go do that.
Jordan Wilson [00:02:17]:
That's episodes seven twelve and seven thirteen. But let's get into the new notebook l m updates. And, actually, let me tease this part first. At the very end of my planning for this show, I figured out how to do something pretty amazing, if I'm being honest, with some of these new notebook alumni updates. So, if you want access to that, well, here's essentially what I figured out, right. For the most part, these new slide revisions can change a lot of what's possible. And I did figure out a way, and, you know, for our livestream audience, you can kind of see it on my screen here. But to turn the standard 16 by nine presentations that you can create inside of notebook l m into vertical.
Jordan Wilson [00:03:02]:
So, yeah, if you want that, make sure to go repost this episode. I'm gonna send you a little video overview of how to do it as well as seven other ideas that you can use these more vertical slides for and exactly how to do it front to back, my entire workflow. So, make sure go repost this show on LinkedIn. So if you're listening on the podcast, the LinkedIn link is always in the show notes. So go repost this, and I'll send that over to you. Alright. Here's what we're gonna go over on today's show. I'm gonna show you the three new easy to use upgrades that are now live inside of NotebookLM.
Jordan Wilson [00:03:36]:
We're gonna do a quick either live demo or a run through of those features, how and why you should use it. And then to end, like I said, I'm gonna, show you a little bit more on, what I built and why I think you should be using this as well. Alright. Here's the new updates. So first, a ton of mobile updates. So there's other, newer additions that have come out to NotebookLM, obviously, since we last talked about, these things in November. But if you've been following along in our weekly AI news that matters series, we've been going over them. We share them in the newsletter, but these are the more recent ones over the last, week or so, that have rolled out.
Jordan Wilson [00:04:15]:
So first, mobile updates, being able to customize infographics and slide decks on your phone, that's great. Also, you can now generate video overviews on the phone and view them in full screen. So number one update is the mobile improvements. Number two is conversational studio generations. So I'm gonna show you exactly what that is and why I think it's maybe even better, than using the standard studio. Okay. So it now is easier to just chat with notebook l m, to find out what you want to learn more about and then conversationally create those studio generations. And then last but not least, the headliner of all of this, that is the editable slide decks to conversationally edit any elements that you create within a slide.
Jordan Wilson [00:05:05]:
Alright. Let's start. What could go wrong doing, live demos with generative AI? But this is our AI at work on Wednesdays. So, almost every single Wednesday, we do something like this going over a new feature mode or model from one of the big four. That's Microsoft Copilot, Anthropic, Claude, OpenAI's ChatGPT, and Google's Gemini. So on Wednesdays, it's more hands on and practical. So, you know, if you are listening, let me know what you wanna see more of or less of, or we often ask you guys in the newsletter. So let's do it.
Jordan Wilson [00:05:40]:
Live stream audience, let me know. Hopefully, you can see my screen here. But, let me see if I can make it bigger. Big enough, I think. But here's essentially what we're doing. So I am actually using this notebook inside of notebook l m, to plan for an upcoming show that I'm doing in the start here series. This is a direct, kind of an advice episode, helping CEOs better understand how they should and should not approach AI implementation within their organization. So I do have a notebook going, that I'm working with to plan this show.
Jordan Wilson [00:06:18]:
And if you are brand spanking new to notebook LM, I'm gonna give you the one minute overview of what notebook l m is, how it works, all that stuff. But we've done plenty of updates on this in the past. And, hey, let me know. Should I do, you know, in our community, in our inner circle community, should the next one be notebook l m or should it be vibe coding? The next kind of, tutorials, that we do, or courses. So, very quick overview. There's three panels inside of notebook l m. Also even to zoom out even more, notebook LM is free. There is a paid version as well that essentially just gives you, more features and it gives you a better model to use.
Jordan Wilson [00:07:00]:
Although all notebook LM is powered by Gemini three. If you are on the paid plan, it uses more, Gemini three one pro, verse or sorry, Gemini three pro versus Gemini three Flash. Alright. So you can you know, this isn't one of those things where you select a model or anything like that, but there's three panes. Okay? So, essentially, you add your sources, that's here on the left pane, and you can add either, from the web. You can search. It can do a, a deep research or a fast research to bring things in. You can upload your files, your transcripts, YouTube videos, things from your Google Drive, copy text, etcetera, etcetera.
Jordan Wilson [00:07:36]:
And why you add sources? Well, it because notebook LM grounds its answers in your sources. So, right here, I have all of this information about, you know, best and worst practices for, CEOs on, implementing AI. So if I go here and ask as an example, alright, I'm gonna say, you know, did the Chicago Bears win their last game? Alright? I'm from Chicago. So presumably, here in a second, it's gonna spit out and say, hey. I can't tell you that, because notebook LM is grounded in the sources that you provide. So right now, it says the the response was the provided sources in our conversation history do not contain any information about the Chicago Bears or the outcome of the final game. The materials focus entirely on CEO strategies for AI work for, workforce transformation. So what this means is any in the middle pane when you are chatting with notebook l m, it is grounded in your sources, which helps, you you know, with one of the biggest problems, of large language models today, even though I think it's way less of a problem than it was in 2022 through 2024, which is hallucinations.
Jordan Wilson [00:08:47]:
So, you can only really chat with your documents and sources. So, that's important to know. So left hand side, that's where your sources are. Middle, that's where you can chat, with your sources in the chat pane. And then on the right hand side, you have your studio. So this is where we can create multimedia assets, and this is all powered by different Gemini models. Mainly, a lot of the visuals, including the video, and the infographics are powered by, Nano Banana. So, couple of the assets, you can do the, audio overviews, which we've covered a lot throughout the the years.
Jordan Wilson [00:09:26]:
That is the, you know, the mega viral to AI host talking about your content. You can create a slide deck which that's one of the new things we're gonna be going over. Now the fact that it's editable. Your video overviews, you can do mind maps, reports, flashcards, quizzes, infographics and data tables which is a little bit of a newer feature. One other thing to keep in mind which is really cool, when you do see this little pencil icon that means you can put in custom, you know, a custom prompt. So that's really nice feature to have, obviously. And you can also generate, nearly unlimited studio generation. So it used to be you could only do, you know, one AI audio overview as an example.
Jordan Wilson [00:10:07]:
Now they are unlimited. Alright. So now that we have a decent grasp and an update for people that are a little bit new, to notebook l m, let's just dive in, and I'm gonna start showing you a couple of these features. Alright. So I'm gonna go ahead and we're gonna create a slide deck. Alright. And I am gonna do a custom slide slide deck. So if you're following along in the podcast, very easy.
Jordan Wilson [00:10:34]:
I'm going to the upper right hand corner. I'm finding the slide deck and I'm clicking the edit button. Alright. I hate typing live on, on the screen here. So I'm just gonna do something quick. I'm just going to say, you know, create a presentation that's showing the right ways and the wrong ways for CEOs to implement AI, include specific examples. Alright. So, what's probably gonna happen here, and I'm gonna make this shorter, just so hopefully it doesn't take as long.
Jordan Wilson [00:11:14]:
Alright. So now we see at the top, I had already generated a couple of things here so far. So now it's going to be generating exactly what I said. So as I work on this, alright, stick with me here. Now I'm going to show you one of the new features because we also, in our live demos here, we need to give it some time to cook. You know, sometimes, you know, depending on on how complex it is, you know, your sources, my sources, it's a ton of information. I actually ran, you know, four different deep research queries on this, on ChatGPT, Gemini, Grok, and Perplexity. Claude wasn't working for whatever reason.
Jordan Wilson [00:11:50]:
They were having some issues, two days, two days ago when I was putting all my notes together, and I also ran a GPT five two thinking query on this. So, it's actually a ton of sources. So what I'm gonna do here in the middle is now I'm gonna show off this new feature, which I haven't really seen anyone talk about maybe because they're not a big button, but that's that you can now conversationally generate, studio assets in the chat pane. And I'm gonna hopefully demonstrate maybe why you can actually get better results doing it there versus what I just showed you. Because a lot of people, you know, the few people I have seen talking about this online, they're like, okay. What's the what's the point of this? You know, couldn't you just, you know, put that same information kind of like I did in a custom prompt? Well, you can. Right? But this goes back to the, like, the foundations of, you know, old school prompt engineering and how you need to not just give an AI model and assignment, but you need to collaborative collaboratively work with the AI model. Because if you do that, especially when it is grounded in your sources, I think you're always going to get, a higher quality and crisper results.
Jordan Wilson [00:12:54]:
So, let's go ahead and I'll show you what I mean. So now in the middle, I'm just going to say, you know, I'm gonna say give me examples. AI moves too fast to follow, but you're expected to keep up. Otherwise, your career or company might lag behind while AI native competitors leap ahead. But you don't have ten hours a day to understand it all. That's what I do for you. But after 700 plus episodes of Everyday AI, the most common questions I get is, where do I start? That's why we created the Start Here series, an ongoing podcast series of more than a dozen episodes you can listen to in order. It covers the AI basics for beginners and sharpens the skills of AI champions pushing their companies forward.
Jordan Wilson [00:13:46]:
In the ongoing series, we explain complex trends in simple language that you can turn into action. There's three ways to jump in. Number one, go scroll back to the first one in episode six ninety one. Number two, tap the link in your show notes at any time for the start here series, or you can just go to starthereseries.com, which also gives you free access to our inner circle community where you can connect with other business leaders doing the same. The Start Here series will slow down the pace of AI so you can get ahead. Alright. So I'm gonna say give me some examples of the right ways and wrong ways for CEOs to implement AI, include specific examples. Okay.
Jordan Wilson [00:14:33]:
So, essentially, I'm doing the exact same thing, in the chat pane as the custom prompt that I gave to the video overview. Now here's why we're gonna do that, because I can see the results first. I can iterate. I can maybe have one or two more, back and forth conversations with notebook l m first. And then what I'm gonna do, hopefully, is have it generate another video overview. Alright. We'll see if we actually have time. So I'm not gonna have too much time to iterate, back and forth.
Jordan Wilson [00:15:05]:
So so far, you know, give me some, some notebook. I'm just spit out the first result here. It gave some examples, Walmart, Accenture, JPMorgan, McKinsey. Right? And then the wrong ways. Okay. So we have some good examples. So this is great so far. So I'm gonna say, great.
Jordan Wilson [00:15:22]:
I'm gonna say, please give me more depth, include more studies and stats, and also try and categorize these good and bad CEO traits and make, an actionable game plan on how to do this the right way. And I'm gonna say, also, create a list of the five most common pitfalls. Alright. So we're gonna get that just one second, and I'm actually going to start, typing now my, response showing off this new feature as it's working here. So I'm gonna say great. I'm gonna say please create a slide deck from all of this information. Alright? No fancy prompts. Right? Essentially, I wanna get this going.
Jordan Wilson [00:16:25]:
So, hopefully, we can do it all here live. And, hopefully, we'll be able to then compare the results, between the newer version of, doing it here in the chat pane, versus the older version. Alright. So here we go. It's giving me the the good traits and the bad traits. It's categorizing them. Okay. This is actually really good information here.
Jordan Wilson [00:16:47]:
Obviously, everything in notebook outline is cite and sourced, cited and sourced. So at any point, I can know it's not just making this up. I can go and see exactly, the information that it's pulling from. Alright. Here we go at the end. So I just said, great. Please create a slide deck from all of this information. And I'm actually jotting myself a little note here, just to make sure that we're I'm gonna show you guys the correct one.
Jordan Wilson [00:17:13]:
Yeah. Because right now, it just now says generating slide deck. So our one on top, should be the correct one. But you'll see here. So it responded. It says, I've started creating a slide deck for you that covers all of this information including the key statistics on AI ROI, the good and basic CEO traits, your actionable game plan, and the common pitfalls to avoid. It says this presentation is being generated asynchronously, and you can track its progress and view the final results over in the studio tab. Let Let me know if you have anything else that you wanna put together.
Jordan Wilson [00:17:46]:
Alright. So there you see. Maybe you didn't maybe you knew this, maybe you didn't, but I think overall when you collaborate with AI before you kind of give it an assignment, it's gonna be much better. So, hopefully here, as long as these, two get done in time, we'll be able to, both show some of the results and also, you know, compare. See if it's actually better if you're iterating with the conversation at least in this one example. Alright. So here's what we're gonna do, while we wait for those. We're going to look at the ability to edit, slide decks within the interface here.
Jordan Wilson [00:18:29]:
Alright. So I did have one already done. Just a general one. I didn't customize this. Right? So, I don't think this is gonna be the best example, but maybe that's a good example to actually walk through and show you guys how to edit it. Alright. So all you're gonna have to do is once your, any of your generations are done for a slide deck, you are just going to click on the slide deck. And then in the upper right, in the upper right hand corner, again, in the studio, there's a pencil.
Jordan Wilson [00:18:56]:
Alright. So this is a new feature, and it says revise. So I'm gonna go ahead and click that, and then it brings this kind of edit panel full screen. Alright. So now there is a new kind of interface, and, I do think slash hope, and I did talk to the Google team about this. I would love to see them bring their annotate feature over here. Their annotate feature is great. You can use it both in Google AI Studio.
Jordan Wilson [00:19:26]:
You can use it in Gemini Canvas. That's where you can actually, like, click on something, you you know, highlight something and then leave feedback. So, that would be great here because otherwise, sometimes you have to get very descriptive. Because as an example here on my first slide, it's a great slide. So it says the AI talent reckoning. You know, so the title side slide here says CEO playbooks, workforce realities in the divergent paths to ROI. And it has this, you know, pretty cool but a little busy graphic, kind of showing, the transition on different moves whether right or wrong that CEOs have made over the years. And it's actually super busy.
Jordan Wilson [00:20:05]:
So I would love in the future to be able to annotate little things on here, but I really can't. So let's just do some basic edits. Alright. So I'm gonna say, let's change the title, to the CEO playbook for successful AI implementation. Y'all, I hate, typing live, here because I also have, like, my T Rex arms, right, because I have to have my microphone close enough. So there we go. We have our first one. So, the feedback process is super simple.
Jordan Wilson [00:20:47]:
Like I said, you just click on any slide, and then there's gonna be a change slide there. So you don't have to click on anything, right when you're, between each slide. So I can go through here and literally click on each and every slide here on the right hand panel, and my edits are gonna be saved even though I haven't clicked anything. Right? And then you'll see a pending changes. Alright. And also, so right now I just changed the title slide. So let's just say as an example, I'm gonna click on, number slide number three here. On the right hand side, of the kind of edit panel, you'll see that the title slide has a little blue outline, whereas whereas the second slide doesn't have that.
Jordan Wilson [00:21:30]:
Right? So all that means is as you're going through and, you know, typing out your changes, anything with a change is gonna have that little blue, marking. And then as you go down here, you're also gonna see the pending changes as well. And it's gonna say the slide number and then, you know, if this really starts to add up, you can go ahead and, you know, use this pending changes, at the bottom of the screen to more quickly jump to those changes. Alright. So let's just go ahead and, go to the page three here. So this is the four year sprint from the Chattoptic shock to the agentic reckoning. All right, so I like this slide, but let's just do a simple one. I'm just gonna say, you know, let's change the color scheme here, but keep the info the same.
Jordan Wilson [00:22:20]:
I'm gonna say let's, use, more green even though I would never wanna see green. I'm gonna say let's use more green and gray, colors for the, five years, for the five year panels. Alright? So, hopefully, that'll make sense. And let's just make one other edit. We don't need to do a ton. Alright. And then so on page four here, this says archetype one, restrict and contain the risk first approach. Alright.
Jordan Wilson [00:22:51]:
So right here, the sites, the things that it sources are a little older. It's from 2023. So I'm actually gonna try two different, improvements here. All right. So I'm gonna say, for the, evidence, let's use facts, stats examples from 2025, not 2023. And then I'm gonna say, also, please change the orange box because there's a little orange box here on screen, to a blue shaded box. Alright. So now we're done.
Jordan Wilson [00:23:35]:
I'm not gonna go through this whole deck and show you because you're probably, kind of bored of that by now. But you'll see here it says I have three pending changes. I can jump between them just by clicking. And then also, like I said, you'll see, everything in the blue there. Alright. So I'm gonna click generate new deck. Alright. And I only did three simple revisions.
Jordan Wilson [00:23:56]:
There you go. It's generating the slide revision revisions. Alright. So I I do have, multiple, multiple versions going on. It looks like one of mine from earlier is done, so we'll have to jump in here in a minute and see which ones those are. Alright. Now let's give NotebookLM a couple more minutes to cook. Alright.
Jordan Wilson [00:24:18]:
Live demos, love to see them. But what I'm not gonna demonstrate live is some of the new mobile features, but I will show you, here, some of them from NotebookLM. Alright. So the first one, like we talked about, is now the ability to customize your video overviews in the NotebookLM app. So, nothing, you know, super technical here, you know, or anything to show off necessarily. So this isn't a new feature per se because this has always been available in the, you know, the desktop version. But I kid you not, I had actually not been using the app as much on my phone. I had been using the mobile website just because I wanted the, the ability to customize, both the video, and the infographic, portions, of notebook l m.
Jordan Wilson [00:25:12]:
So you couldn't do that on the app. The app is really nice. It's works very well. Right? There's new things. You can upload screenshots. Right? Very cool. But so this new update, I think, it just meets you where you're at. Right? It turns now all of a sudden, you know, the notebook l m app to something that's, you know, pretty useful to something like, okay, this is something I might need to start using every single day.
Jordan Wilson [00:25:36]:
Just being able to bring over some of these, customization features from the desktop to the mobile app. Alright. And then the second one here, the second big update to the mobile app is the ability to customize the infographics in slide deck in the mobile app. So, here on screen just showing a tweet from notebook l m, very easy. Like you would on the desktop, tap the pencil icon to adjust the design, complexity and narrative style. Alright. So you can kind of, see the little video here, from notebook l m. It's very slick and you do get, most of all the features that you get in the desktop version as well.
Jordan Wilson [00:26:15]:
So again, the ability to both, customize and also view, these things now inside of the app. Alright. Enough of that. Let's go in and check as we, as we wrap up here. Let's go in and check. We do have one more. We have one more going. Alright.
Jordan Wilson [00:26:35]:
Bummer. Alright. You know what I'm actually gonna do? I'm gonna quickly, you know, quickly tease, this this one thing here. Alright. So if you do go repost today's show, I wanna show you some of the, kind of results that I have here. So it is in this notebook. Right. So one of the coolest things that I've been able to accomplish so far is really figuring out the right way to work with this new slide deck, especially with the revisions to go in other formats.
Jordan Wilson [00:27:06]:
Right? I do know that this is something notebook l m, is working on is just other output formats. But by far, the level of quality that you can get, out of the presentation or the slides feature in notebook LM powered by Nano Banana is absolutely on another level. Sorry, I love Gamma. I use it all the time. Gamma does have options to, actually use Nano Banana Pro. Obviously with new updates to, you know, ChatGPT and, GPT five two, in Claude. Claude's been crushing it on the slide side. You can also, generate slides within, Google Gemini using canvas mode.
Jordan Wilson [00:27:50]:
We covered that a couple of months ago. But still, none of these options, yes, not even gamma, nothing else compares to what you can produce in terms of time to output quality as what you can in notebook l m with these slides. And then again, now that you can edit them, that makes it even a bigger no brainer. Right? You did have the ability to edit slides in some platforms, I believe, like Genspark and Manus and things like that. But let's be honest, those credits are expensive. I do love those two programs and use them often. Right? And this is one of the use cases I was using. I think it was Genspark, the ability to edit slides that were created by using Nano Banana, but you don't have to worry about credits, you don't have to worry about any of those things now when you can just do this in app.
Jordan Wilson [00:28:38]:
But I did kind of figure out a way to successfully go beyond the slide deck, right? So yes, this is still technically a 16 by nine, output here, but I did now split this, into three vertical, kind of panes here. Alright. So, this is something I did spend a little bit of time on just to get this right, but livestream audience, if you're seeing this, this obviously turned out really, really well. So now, you know, yes, I know a lot of people, you know, have plenty of use cases for 16 by nine presentations, your PowerPoints, etcetera. Oh, which is probably one other thing I should mention. Now there is the ability to download, this as a PowerPoint. So before, you could only download as a PDF. Now you can download as a PowerPoint.
Jordan Wilson [00:29:26]:
The downside of that is, well, when you import it inside Microsoft PowerPoint, it's just flat JPEGs. Right? So you're not getting fully, editable layers, but, you know, if you do have things, you can obviously edit them with a text based prompt, now with this new revision feature inside of notebook l m. What I've always done right after maybe one or two edits in notebook l m is out, you know, if it's smaller things and I'm like, I don't wanna wait. You know, you can always just import, the, PowerPoint into Canva. And I love for those features using, like, their magic write, magic grab, some of those things to make more fine tune controls. And also, you know, you might not realize, you do have a just a super high level of customization, within the notebook l m slide generator and even in the revisions. You can even, with, you know, some basic prompting, you can control colors, you can control layout, you can control, you know, font choices, things like that. So you actually do have way more granular control aside from using the the presets that they offer.
Jordan Wilson [00:30:33]:
You actually have a ton of granular control. But I do like this because now this with having these three panes, it really changes what you can use it for. Right? Because you're probably not gonna put out a 16 by nine slide on social media as an example. You're probably not gonna put it, for an area of your website that is maybe, optimized for mobile because it doesn't work. So this little, kind of trick here, I guess, is gonna be great because it really opens up, the use cases. So like I said, make sure to go repost this on LinkedIn. I will send you a video overview of exactly how to do this as well as seven use cases that are outside of just, okay, now I have a cool carousel, for, you know, for social media. Yeah.
Jordan Wilson [00:31:18]:
That's the the obvious one, but I'm gonna show you everything. So make sure to go repost this and I'll send you how to turn this, obviously into a, more simple, kind of layout because there is one or two additional steps. Alright. Now let's wrap this up. I was just kind of not stalling there, but hopefully providing a little bit of value, while we finished. Alright. Cool. They finished.
Jordan Wilson [00:31:40]:
Great. Alright. So let's first look at our okay. Sorry. I'm just I'm just double checking here, kind of which slide is which. Alright. So we have our AI reckoning. Alright.
Jordan Wilson [00:31:57]:
Let's see where our edited version was. Sorry, y'all. Sorry. I'm trying to find this. Let's see. Fourteen hours ago, fourteen hours ago, eleven minutes. Okay. It's one of these three.
Jordan Wilson [00:32:10]:
Let me click on them again. Alright. So it's not that one, the executive imperative, although that looks nice. Here we go. Alright. So here is the results of our edited one. Alright. So very cool.
Jordan Wilson [00:32:25]:
So it successfully changed the cover slide like we told it to. Let's go to slides three and four to double check on our other ones. Alright. So slide three, it did this correctly. And it actually looks better than I thought, kind of in the green, in gray. I told it to kind of change those colors. So, it actually looks a little bit better than I thought. And then last but not least on slide four, I wanted to update these twenty twenty three examples to twenty twenty five examples, and it looks like it did.
Jordan Wilson [00:32:58]:
Obviously, I would always go back and double check this. And then, the second edit that I had on this page, it was kind of a, more gaudy orange box. So it did change, this pullout box to a, more subdued and neutral, blue color. So there you see, both from changing bigger things, you know, like the entire feel of, a slide, to changing the title, to changing multiple things on one page. So there we go. Alright. So now let's go ahead and see if I can properly do this. Okay.
Jordan Wilson [00:33:35]:
So here is, our general slide deck that we started with. Okay. So this is not the one that was based with the chat iterations. And if I'm being honest, I actually really like this one. Sometimes by default, notebook LM will give you something a little, you know, not like corny, but something not super polished or, you know, very professional. I actually love this. I I love the color scheme it chose. It kinda had this, you know, chalkboard gray, with some gold and burnt orange highlights, going over November 2022 to November 2024, and then it kind of splits to transformation and stagnation.
Jordan Wilson [00:34:19]:
Y'all, I'm telling you, even if you don't need to output slides for your job, this is the best way to learn, right? I use these slides all the time because one thing that I personally do not enjoy doing is reading long blocks of text. And when I think of what are some of the hugest cheat codes right now, I have to always go back to the different deep researches. Right? I think Google, Gemini, their new deep research, and ChatGPT's deep research, the new one which we just went over, are in a league of their own. But I hate reading long blocks of text. This workflow that I'm showing you, bringing multiple deep researches in and creating a presentation, even if I'm not publishing that presentation, I do this all the time because it helps me learn, right, and then being able to do this also in the video version as well. So the default version actually turned out much better than I thought. The slides are super clean. I mean, like, holy freak.
Jordan Wilson [00:35:21]:
This might be in terms of, like, zero shotting something, I use this all the time, and this might be one of the better versions. It's actually really good. Right? With, without having any iterations. Alright. So if you do repost this, not only will I, you know, show you guys the, kind of turning, the 16 by nine presentation into three vertical panes and show you that process. But I'll also, send you these two decks because, you know, looking at them, I'm like, this is really freaking valuable and they look really, really good. Alright. So the default version, really good.
Jordan Wilson [00:35:56]:
Alright. So now let's go into the iterative version. Again, I'm kind of half assuming, that this is the correct one, because I wasn't able to watch them in real time for the five minutes when they were generating because I was doing other things and showing you guys other things on screen. I probably should have, denoted and said, hey, called, you know, make sure you use this text on the cover, so I didn't have to, you know, guess live. But I'm guessing let me just kind of flip through this. Yeah. Okay. This is correct.
Jordan Wilson [00:36:29]:
So, yeah, this version is the one that I iterated on because I'm I'm scrolling through here, and it's breaking things down by the categories that I asked. So just strictly the design, I think that the, the first version was better, at least for my personal taste. So this one, it looks really good. It's called the Executive AI Imperative, from pilot to purgatory to performance. Right? And normally what I do, FYI, you know, people always ask me like, oh, how do you use AI? Right? A lot of times, I'll just talk. Right? I'll give my thoughts, you know, my questions. I'll just dictate them in this new app that I built that I'll be sharing about in our community, FYI. So a lot of times to get your own personal take to personalize this, that's the other thing people I think always look overlook with notebook LM is they think, okay, this is just gonna churn out, you know, generic content at scale.
Jordan Wilson [00:37:27]:
No. Make sure you put your own taste, your own, personality, your own background. Right? One thing I always do is I essentially have markdown files that I constantly update, almost, almost weekly. Right? Both about myself, what I'm working on, my thoughts on different things, and from the company side, from everyday AI side. So when I do want something, personalized at a much greater detail, I can always use those files, drop them in as sources, or in the chat and say, hey. Make sure you customize all of this, this information according to what I just sent you. Right? My personal context. But overall, I think the content of the second slide that we iterated with, inside of the chat interface, the content is much better.
Jordan Wilson [00:38:13]:
You you know, it's really breaking it down into these different, categories, which I asked for. It gave me the, the multiple step action plan here. So centralized governance, redesigned workflows, mandate and incentivize, industrialize upskilling, measure ROI, relentless, relentlessly, and then the pitfalls as well. So, yeah, what I would have done if I was making this for myself, right, I just did this as a quick little live demo, is I probably would have grabbed some of my more recent episodes, and said, hey, prioritize this information, that I've uploaded in these sources, but supplement it, with these other documents. So overall, I mean, these new updates, I think, are absolutely imperative for you to check out if you haven't already. Because like I said, not only does it meet us where we're at with the mobile capabilities, but so many of us, the things that we have to, you know, ultimately create spreadsheets and slides. Right? And I think that as, the quality of AI increases, right, I'm personally tired. I don't know if it's just me.
Jordan Wilson [00:39:19]:
And this is terrible as a former journalist to say, I have text fatigue. I do because the cost and the barrier to entry to quality text has gone down. So now I'm swamped with it, right? So now for me personally, I'm always looking for customizable high quality visuals, and that's exactly what notebook LM delivers with these three new updates. The editable slides, the on the go mobile customization, and then the ability to iterate and create, studio generations in the chat. So I hope this was helpful. I've already said if you, you know, want the, the little extras, make sure to go, share this show and repost it on LinkedIn. Then make sure you go listen to episode seven twelve and seven thirteen, our 2026 AI prediction and roadmap series. So when you've done all those things, if you haven't already, what the heck? Go to youreverydayai.com.
Jordan Wilson [00:40:13]:
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