Sourclip
Turn NotebookLM into a complete research workflow
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Turn NotebookLM into a complete research workflow
96 followers
Sourclip is the research workflow for NotebookLM. It helps you discover high-quality research sources, capture webpages, PDFs, YouTube videos, Reddit posts, and AI chats into NotebookLM with one click. Organize everything with folders, reuse prompts across projects, sync your workspace across devices, and export your research as Markdown, HTML, or PDF. You can also turn NotebookLM Audio Overviews into a private podcast feed for Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Pocket Casts, and other podcast apps.
@numerbyte Looks really useful, especially for people already deep into NotebookLM. The private podcast feed for Audio overviews is a smart touch. Congrats on the launch. ill check it out and share feedback if I spot anything.
@vahid_davoudi Thank you, really appreciate that! The private podcast feed actually came from user feedback, so I'm glad it stands out. 😊 If you do get a chance to try it, I'd genuinely love to hear your thoughts - good or bad. That's how Sourclip keeps getting better.
The NotebookLM angle is interesting. When you say Sourclip turns it into a complete research workflow, which part are you filling in most: collecting sources, organizing clips, generating summaries, or moving research into a final output? Curious because “research workflow” can mean very different things for marketers, developers, and creative teams.
@crystalmei Great question! I'd say the biggest gaps are collecting sources and organizing everything around NotebookLM. NotebookLM itself is fantastic once your sources are in, but getting there is still pretty manual. Sourclip helps you capture webpages, PDFs, YouTube videos, Reddit posts, AI chats, and organize them into folders, reuse prompts, export research, and even turn Audio Overviews into a private podcast feed. The idea isn't to replace NotebookLM - it's to make the workflow around it much smoother.
the folder + reuse-prompts-across-projects part is what would actually get me to use this daily, NotebookLM itself has zero organization once you're past 3-4 notebooks. since you're capturing pages, PDFs and AI chats into your own layer before they hit NotebookLM, where does that captured content live while it's being organized - synced to your own backend, or is it staying local/in the browser until it's pushed into a notebook
@galdayan Thanks! That was one of the biggest reasons I started building Sourclip 😄 Once you get past a few notebooks, NotebookLM can get surprisingly hard to organize.
One thing I was pretty intentional about is that your research doesn't pass through my servers on its way to NotebookLM. When you capture something, it goes directly into your own NotebookLM.
The organization layer (folders, prompts, saved sources, etc.) works a bit differently depending on your plan.
I wanted Sourclip to feel like the missing workflow layer around NotebookLM, while keeping your actual research in your own NotebookLM.
@numerbyte good to hear the actual research bypasses your servers - that was the part I cared about most. follow-up: the organization layer itself (folders, saved prompts, which sources are grouped where) - is that stored in your backend since it's metadata rather than content, or does that live locally too?
@galdayan yep, exactly. 😊 that's the split I wanted to make.
the organization layer is different. the metadata (folders, saved prompts, favorite research sources, notebook organization, etc.) is synced through Sourclip Cloud Sync so it's available across your devices (Depending on plan).
I wanted to keep the actual research private while still making the organizational side convenient to use across multiple devices.
Congrats on the launch! Does Sourclip handle very long/technical source docs well (100+ pages), or is it more tuned for shorter web content? Curious how it holds up on dense material.
@medal411 Thanks! 😊 It handles both. For long pages (100+ pages), Sourclip sends the document directly to NotebookLM, so you're still benefiting from NotebookLM's ability to work with large source material. Where Sourclip adds the most value is around getting those sources into NotebookLM faster and organizing everything once you have lots of material- web pages, web PDFs, AI chats, YouTube, Reddit, etc. That's the problem I was trying to solve
@numerbyte NotebookLM makes it a bit painful to move sources between notebooks once they're uploaded. does Sourclip let you reorganize or retag sources afterward, or is the workflow strictly a one way thing?
@clement_avq Great question! 😊 You're not locked into a one-way workflow. If you realize a source belongs in a different NotebookLM notebook, Sourclip lets you import it into another notebook, so you don't have to start over. Tagging isn't supported yet, but making research easier to organize has been a big focus from the beginning, and I'm continuing to improve that workflow.
@numerbyte good to know imports don't force a restart. when a source gets imported into a second notebook, is it a standalone copy there, or does it stay linked back to the original so updates sync across both? And is tagging on the roadmap, or more of a maybe someday thing?
@clement_avq Great follow-up! 😊
when you import a source into another notebook, it becomes an independent source in that notebook - it isn't linked back to the original, so changes don't sync between them. That means the same source can exist in multiple notebooks if that's how you prefer to organize your research.
If you later decide you only want to keep one copy, you can always remove the other from the Sourclip workspace.
As for tagging, it's something I'd definitely like to add in the future because I can see how useful it'd be, but it's not on my immediate roadmap yet. Right now I'm focused on a few other highly requested NotebookLM workflow features. I try not to promise dates until I'm confident they'll ship. 😊
@numerbyte that makes sense, no silent syncing keeps things simple. since tagging's on the back burner for now, what are the other NotebookLM workflow features you're prioritizing?
Do you see Sourclip eventually becoming a personal research operating system independent of NotebookLM, or is the vision to become the best possible companion for NotebookLM specifically?
@tarqiya_forgah Great question! 😊 My vision today is to make Sourclip the workflow layer around NotebookLM, not compete with it. NotebookLM does an amazing job of understanding your sources - I'm focused on making everything before and around that experience much smoother, from capturing and organizing research to managing it over time. There's still a lot of room to improve that workflow.
I've been using NotebookLM for research and one thing that's been missing is a seamless way to organize sources. Sourclip seems to fill that gap. One potential improvement could be integrating a highlighting or annotation feature for captured webpages and PDFs
@aymnart Thanks so much! 😊.
I love that idea. Highlighting and annotations have been on my mind too, especially for revisiting important parts of long articles or PDFs. I'll definitely give it some thought as Sourclip evolves. Really appreciate the suggestion!