NotebookLM Setup (10 minutes)

  1. Go to notebooklm.google.com
  2. Create a new notebook for each major knowledge domain (e.g., "Customer Insights Q1", "Architecture Docs", "Competitive Intel")
  3. Upload your sources — Google Docs, PDFs, web URLs, audio files, YouTube links
  4. Start with your highest-value knowledge: customer call transcripts and product docs
  5. Test with a simple query to verify sources are indexed correctly
  6. Generate your first Audio Overview to see the format

Claude Code Setup (15 minutes)

  1. Install: check code.claude.com/docs for the latest install method
  2. Run claude in your terminal to authenticate
  3. Navigate to your project directory
  4. Run claude to start a session with full codebase context
  5. Test with a simple task: "Explain the architecture of this project"
  6. Try a spec-to-code workflow: paste a NotebookLM spec output and ask Claude Code to scaffold it