Four exercises that take a pile of notes about two options and turn them into a comparison, a recommendation, and an honest list of what you still do not know.
Somewhere in those tabs is the answer, plus three things that contradict it and one number you cannot source any more.
Asking AI to summarise it all feels like progress right up until someone asks "where did that figure come from?" and you cannot say.
The fix is not a better prompt. It is working from a fixed set of sources, and being able to point at the sentence behind every claim you make.
NotebookLM
Create a checked comparison from a small set of supplied sources. Two exercises: compare two proposed staff-learning formats, then produce a source-checked decision briefing.
ChatGPT
Draft and pressure-test a concise evidence-based summary. Two exercises: turn evidence notes into a comparison table, then draft and pressure-test a recommendation summary.
Bounded sources, on purpose
You work from a fixed set of notes rather than the open internet. That constraint is what makes it possible to check a claim at all — and it is the habit that transfers.
You leave with a file, not notes
This track ends each tool with something you export and keep — a real document, deck or sheet. Every step lists what a good one contains, so you can tell whether the work is actually good, not just finished.
Grounded in the tool's own docs
Each lesson ends with the vendor's own documentation pages that the exercise relies on. Nothing here is invented, and when a tool changes you can see exactly what to re-check.
Yes, completely. Create an account, start the track and work through it. There is no card, no trial and no upsell at the end.
You need an account with each of the two tools. Every exercise is written against the tool's own published documentation, and each lesson links the exact pages it relies on — check there for what your plan includes, since the vendors change their tiers regularly.
About 54 minutes across four exercises — roughly 12, 15, 12 and 15 minutes.
No — this pathway is self-paced and nothing is collected. Both NotebookLM exercises end with a file you export and keep, and the exercise spells out what a good one contains, so the judgement is yours to make.
Yes. Complete all four exercises and your certificate of completion is issued automatically, with your name and the track title, and appears under My certificates on your account. It is also emailed to you.