
What I’m still missing from NotebookLM for actual learning in teams
I really like NotebookLM for working with documents.
But for learning, there are still two things I keep missing.
The first is a proper connection to existing knowledge bases.
A lot of the information I want to learn from already lives in places like Notion or Confluence. Uploading individual documents works well for isolated topics, but it feels less useful once the source of truth is an evolving knowledge base.
The second is what happens after exploring the information.
Summaries, notes and chat are great for understanding a topic, but at some point I want to actually test whether I understood it. Questions, small exercises, scenarios or other interactions that turn the source material into an actual learning experience.
To me, that would make for a really interesting workflow:
Existing knowledge base → explore the information → turn it into an interactive learning experience → share that experience with others.
I came across an open-source project that is experimenting more in this direction and can also be self-hosted:
GitHub: https://github.com/scibly-dev/scibly
I don’t really see it as a replacement for NotebookLM. The interesting part for me is the different focus: less about only interacting with information and more about turning existing knowledge into something people can actively learn from.