How do I send a YouTube video to NotebookLM?

Install Pip Cue, save the YouTube video at the moment you want, open the saved-videos dashboard, and click the NotebookLM button on the bookmark. Pip Cue opens NotebookLM and pastes the URL with your timestamp into the Add-source dialog automatically.

Does Pip Cue send my Pip Cue account data to NotebookLM?

No. The only piece of information Pip Cue hands to NotebookLM is the YouTube URL you already saved. No email, no user ID, no other bookmark data. The content script that auto-fills the URL is scoped to notebooklm.google.com only.

Can NotebookLM read the full YouTube transcript?

Yes — NotebookLM ingests YouTube sources and uses the video's transcript. Once Pip Cue has inserted the URL, NotebookLM can answer questions about the video's content, summarize it, and generate notes.

Is the Send-to-NotebookLM feature free?

Yes. The Send-to-NotebookLM action ships in Pip Cue's free version. Saving the first 20 bookmarks is free too. NotebookLM itself is a separate Google product with its own terms.

Send any saved YouTube video to NotebookLM.

One click on any Pip Cue bookmark and the YouTube URL — with your exact timestamp — lands inside NotebookLM's Add-source flow. Then chat with the video, summarize it, or build study notes.

Add to Chrome — Free

Save in YouTube. Insert in NotebookLM. Done.

Pip Cue automates the boring part. You don't copy the URL, you don't paste it, you don't open NotebookLM yourself, and you don't click into the Add-source dialog. One click on the saved bookmark — Pip Cue handles the rest.

Opens a new NotebookLM tab
Creates a new notebook or opens the active one
Pastes the URL with your exact timestamp
You hit Insert. Source added.

How the handoff actually works

When you click NotebookLM on a saved bookmark, Pip Cue opens a new tab at notebooklm.google.com. A small content script — restricted by the manifest to only run on that domain — waits for the page to load, creates or opens a notebook if needed, opens the Add-source dialog, and pastes the YouTube URL (with your timestamp) into the input field.

The only data that leaves Pip Cue is the YouTube URL you already saved — nothing else. The script can't read your other Google data. What happens inside NotebookLM after that is governed by Google's own privacy policy.

Who lives in this workflow

Students

Lectures → notebooks → study guides

Save the lecture, hand it to NotebookLM, ask it to generate a study guide.

Researchers

Interviews into one chat-able corpus

Send a series of interview videos to the same notebook. Query across them.

Save it. Send it. Chat with it.

Free. No account needed in Pip Cue. NotebookLM uses your Google account.

Add to Chrome — Free