Google just quietly released the most practical AI creative tool I've seen all year: NotebookLM Video Overviews. This is a tool that can transform how you create educational content.
📌 Key takeaways
Turn any content (newsletters, research papers, course modules) into professional educational videos in 10 minutes
Zero video editing skills required – AI handles visuals, narration, and organization
Currently free and producing studio-quality results that would typically take time and resources
Perfect for operators who need to scale content without hiring video teams
The feature that's flying under the radar
Google announced their video overview feature for NotebookLM a couple days ago, positioning it as a "visual alternative to audio overviews."
This is hands down one of the best educational creative AI tools out there. And I'm not just saying that – I've been using NotebookLM obsessively for research, content creation, and repurposing. This new feature basically lets you create educational videos from any piece of content.
The system generates "short engaging slides, summaries, using images, diagrams, quotes, and data from your sources narrated by your AI host."
Translation: You upload your content, AI turns it into a professional educational video. No editing. No design skills. No hiring freelancers.
How to actually use this (step-by-step walkthrough)
Super straightforward process:
Open NotebookLM (it's free)
Create a new notebook
Upload your source content – literally anything works:
Newsletters
Course modules
Research papers
Blog posts
Internal documentation
I tested it with one of my best-performing newsletters: "How to become a context engineer in 2025: The $100,000 skill no one's teaching."
