Why NotebookLM Is My Most-Used AI Tool as a Game Producer
If you asked me which AI tool I actually open multiple times a day, the answer isn't Claude or ChatGPT. It's NotebookLM.
That surprises people. But I'm in it every 2 to 3 hours on a regular workday, and here's why it's earned that spot in my workflow.
NotebookLM doesn't try to be everything. It does one thing well: takes everything you throw at it and helps you make sense of it, grounded in the sources you actually care about.
Here's what's living in my notebooks right now: daily standup notes, weekly ops plans, LiveOps planning docs, team availability sheets, AppMagic and Sensor Tower and AppsFlyer reports, and deep research articles, PDFs, and YouTube videos on topics I'm actively spending time on.
The features I actually use:
Infographics and Slide Decks (both added in November 2025) are already part of my regular workflow. When I needed to present a monthly ops retrospective, I let NotebookLM turn my source material into a slide deck and a companion Audio Overview.
The audio was the interesting part. Two AI hosts, good cop and bad cop, critiquing the same data from opposite angles. My team found it more engaging than a standard deck. I found it useful for spotting gaps in my own analysis.
Audio Overview is the one I keep coming back to. It's not just a summary read aloud. It's a synthesized dialogue that argues about your source material. Good for consuming heavy industry reports during a commute.
What it doesn't do well:
The AI Q&A chat feels a couple of years behind where current tools are. The infographic text occasionally goes off-context, which is a Gemini model limitation. And there's no option to add custom voices for Audio Overviews. If you could record yourself and a colleague, the output would be genuinely more useful for team collaboration.
Most of my teammates who've shown interest drift away after a couple of sessions. It's a solo workflow tool for now, which is fine. But the shared notebook feature is there and has potential if the right use case comes along.
Google positions it as your AI research and thinking partner. In practice, for me, it earns that description specifically for planning and retrospective work that used to take much longer.
What AI tools are actually part of your weekly workflow? Curious what's in other producers' stacks.
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