How to Use NotebookLM with Claude Code and Save Tokens

Imagine being able to use all the power

of Notebook LM inside Cloud Code.

And when I say all the power,

I mean asking it about created notebooks,

I mean creating notebooks,

and look at what we are saying.

We are saying that Cloud Code, which is expensive,

does not have to incur costs when it is researching,

when we add a full book from a PDF

or several books,

and when we ask Cloud Code something,

we can make it in turn ask

a specific notebook

and have it bring back the results to keep working.

That makes it truly incredible.

Let’s see how it works.

I go to the terminal, I am already in the terminal,

I am going to type Cloud,

and I am going to say, tell me which is the latest notebook

in Notebook LM.

In fact, while we are asking for it,

we notice that the last notebook is…

Well, here we have two, because this one is earlier,

I know that, look at the date,

and this one is March 11.

I do not know if it takes into account the last modified

or the last created,

but I am telling you this,

because now we can realize

that maybe it will tell us, here it is.

See? The last one created is this N8N comparison one,

which, if you notice, is in second place,

but you can see the date is later.

Here we have it.

So I can say to it,

can you create an infographic in that notebook?

Before making the infographic,

I am going to open the notebook,

so you can see there is no infographic created.

It tells me it is in progress,

generation started,

it is going to try to check when it is ready.

Okay, notice that if I…

Look, here it already says it is being generated.

I can not only interact with already created notebooks,

but I can also ask it directly

to create a complete notebook for us.

I will do that now, but first we are going to finish

and see what it does for us.

Notice that it already says it has it done.

I could tell it before going in,

as you already know, not to keep asking me questions.

There is a command I can use

so I do not have to be here

clicking next, next, and next.

What I am going to do, though, is tell it not to ask me

about things it has already asked me about

so it does not get so tedious.

Well, here it tells me it takes one or two minutes,

that it is still in process.

It tells me, tell me when you want me to check again

or if you want me to keep trying every X amount of time.

Here it is generating, it is going to take a little bit,

but while it is doing that,

here it keeps creating.

but in the meantime I am going to tell you,

with this information, tell me when to use

N8n, Make, or Cloud Code.

Notice that he asks Notebook LM itself,

you see that there is a query here,

and he asks it.

What does that mean?

It means that Cloud is not doing the research,

it is asking Notebook LM for the result,

so in many cases

it is going to do it great for us

and also, I repeat,

it is going to save us a ton of tokens

inside Cloud Code.

Notice that the information is here

and it is already giving it to us,

so it actually works really well

and we can, when we work in this way,

also make sure there are no hallucinations,

because it works only with the information

that we have inside our own notebook.

Let’s see if it also finished,

it finished the infographic.

Let’s take a look at it, by the way.

Here we have the infographic

of the automation ecosystem,

MakeN8n. Well, we can see it.

We would have to read it, but it looks really good.

I am going to ask it,

do you already have access to the infographic?

Because I already know that yes, it is there.

Notice that, well,

it has already found it for us here.

Here we have it.

You can also view it directly in the notebook,

but it also gives me full access,

so we are going to copy the URL

and it does not let me view it.

Can you download it?

We are going to check,

to see if it is able to download

the created infographic.

It tells me that it has downloaded it,

that I have it in my folder.

So we are going to check.

Let’s go. I will put it here on another screen

while I browse.

And here I have it, let’s see.

There it is, I have it downloaded

to my computer and locally, from Cloud Code.

without having to log in.

Notice that the direct link had failed for us,

but if I tell it to download it for me, it does.

Before seeing how we did it,

I am going to ask it,

what else can you do

with a Notebook LM notebook?

Let’s see what it tells us.

We can add sources, URLs, text,

add local files, Google Drive,

list, rename,

sync sources with Google Drive,

view the content of a source,

query it.

Notice that we can ask it

to make a presentation for us,

all these things we are already used to.

And I repeat, to have it do it,

and not only is it going to do it great,

it is that you let Cloud Code itself not be the one to do it.

Okay, how did we do this?

How did we do this?

Notice, I actually have a notebook

that I created myself as an example,

but it also worked very well for me

to see how it was done.

So here I have the URL for the Cloud Code MCP.

I have another, more complete video

where I explain step by step

how to get started with Cloud,

but in this case notice

that in this URL, if I scroll down,

it gives me the commands I can use,

but what interests us here

is how it is installed.

On one hand, it tells us how to connect,

and on the other, somewhere,

let’s see where it is,

there is the way—here it is—

of how it is installed.

Here we have one way,

or we have another.

My recommendation,

if you are not very technical,

you can do it like this,

but another way we can do it

is to ask Cloud Code itself

to install it.

For example,

can you give me the steps

to explain how to install the MCP

for Node.LM?

Here you have the documentation.

In this case, I’m showing it to you

so you can see how to do it,

because I really did not install it,

I asked him to do it

and he installed it himself.

You can see that here it is creating

commands to do it.

So, in this case,

you simply let it

keep doing it and it does it for you.

Do you want more control?

Well, here it tells you which

commands you have to use.

Here you can see that there is a command

to connect it and configure it

with Cloud Code

and you just follow the steps

and you do it.

But, as I’m telling you,

you can have Cloud Code itself

auto-install,

like I did in my case.

Here you can see that it gives us the steps,

but as I’m saying,

since it is on our computer,

we could tell it

to do it by itself.

The important step,

apart from connecting it,

is NLM Login,

because a web page is going to pop up

for you

so you can connect with Google

to Notebook LM

and that way

the rest is a piece of cake.

But notice that here it tells us

what the commands are,

here it tells us how to log in

and then how to connect them with Cloud Code.

But, as I am telling you,

it is going to do it for you,

just like we saw

in previous videos.

Setting up

MCPs that way works very well.

So I repeat,

this tool seems incredible to me

when we have to work

with a ton of information

and all of that would be a huge

token consumption.

This way you can do it

without spending anything.

I hope you are enjoying

this kind of video.

Let him know if you have any questions

or what other video you want.

I already have a few in mind,

so without further ado,

See you in the next one.

See you later!