Gemini Notebook

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hello rescuers my name's che webster and this is roleplay rescue welcome to the summer conversations a short series of podcasts in which i welcome a guest who brings their own topic of interest and we have a chat the recordings are done in under one hour barely edited and released without fanfare in this seventh episode evil jeff and i get into the weeds on something every gm wrestles with how do you keep your campaign notes from turning into an unreadable mess Jeff walks through his Obsidian setup for linking NPCs, plot threads and personas across his World of Absalom game while I share my journey from Campaign Logger to Gemini Notebook and LLM Assisted Prep that cut my session write-ups from an hour down to 20 minutes.

We compare our surprisingly similar workflows, talk reaction roles and NPC mood tables and face the elephant in the room.

Can AI tools help you run a better game without compromising your data? jeff skeptical and rightly so thanks to jeff for coming on the show thanks to the patrons for keeping the lights on and thanks to you for showing up and listening this is the seventh summer conversation evil jeff the notes behind the screen

So it can hold a context and a certain amount of information in a context for a while, but it can't visualize it the way we do.

Do you know what I mean? So as long as you understand that, I think, like, that's huge.

um but what a large language model where that came in for me and has become really useful um is and i'll tell you how this came about so i work in education and one of the things that was kind of happening was that gemini notebook as it's now known but was then notebook lm was kind of like one of those things that was out there and i was being encouraged at work to experiment with that and find out its use it's built as an educational tool so the idea is that if you wanted to Do you have anything that has information? Whatever information you put into a notebook, the LLM will only look at that information unless you instruct it otherwise.

Back when it started, it only could do that.

I am Jack Spirko, the host of The Survival Podcast, one of the longest-running podcasts available today, first launched in two thousand eight, with almost four thousand episodes published since launching.

Friday Fusions is a blend of my input and the virtual AI hosts at Google's Gemini Notebook, formerly known as Notebook LM.

That means that most of this episode will be done by the AI hosts.

Now, if you want more of me, I still publish four episodes a week.