NotebookLM presentations, once impossible to tweak, can now be revised slide by slide
A year ago, anyone wanting an editable presentation had to leave NotebookLM. Today the tool, which no longer even goes by that name, makes slides, amends them on request and exports them to PowerPoint.
On 7 November 2025, in ChatGPT-IA-edu, someone asked whether NotebookLM could be made to use their own images in a presentation. The answer captured the limit at the time: NotebookLM made video presentations, which could not be modified once created, and anyone who wanted slides to present and tweak had to turn to Gemini.
Weeks later, slide decks arrived, as Google recalled on 16 December in «8 ways to make the most out of Slide Decks in NotebookLM». On 20 March 2026, the Google Workspace Updates blog announced that users could send comments on style or content for each slide and that the presentation could be exported as PPTX as well as PDF.
On 16 July, the tool was renamed Gemini Notebook. And on 19 October Google explained in «How to shape your slides and videos with Gemini Notebook» that it suggests topics based on the sources and lets users review the plan before generating the slides or the video. The question from a year ago is no longer whether anything can be changed, but how much it is wise to leave in its hands.
NotebookLM presentations, once impossible to tweak, can now be revised slide by slide
A year ago, anyone wanting an editable presentation had to leave NotebookLM. Today the tool, which no longer even goes by that name, makes slides, amends them on request and exports them to PowerPoint.
On 7 November 2025, in ChatGPT-IA-edu, someone asked whether NotebookLM could be made to use their own images in a presentation. The answer captured the limit at the time: NotebookLM made video presentations, which could not be modified once created, and anyone who wanted slides to present and tweak had to turn to Gemini.
Weeks later, slide decks arrived, as Google recalled on 16 December in «8 ways to make the most out of Slide Decks in NotebookLM». On 20 March 2026, the Google Workspace Updates blog announced that users could send comments on style or content for each slide and that the presentation could be exported as PPTX as well as PDF.
On 16 July, the tool was renamed Gemini Notebook. And on 19 October Google explained in «How to shape your slides and videos with Gemini Notebook» that it suggests topics based on the sources and lets users review the plan before generating the slides or the video. The question from a year ago is no longer whether anything can be changed, but how much it is wise to leave in its hands.
