research

To gather evidence before brainstorming, this Skill creates a NotebookLM notebook, seeds it with trusted URLs, and runs deep web research to collect 20+ reviewed sources. It synthesizes validated themes into a structured summary, ensuring your ideation is grounded in evidence rather than guesswork.

Yes, you can review and remove web sources before synthesis. The Skill lists all gathered sources from the deep research phase, allowing you to filter out irrelevant items before it synthesizes key themes and best practices into the final summary.

The best way to automate deep research for ideation is using this Skill to run deep mode web research, validate sources, and synthesize themes. It automatically hands the structured summary to the ideate:brainstorm process via a persisted .research.json state file.

NotebookLM supports importing seed URLs for evidence collection. This Skill creates a dedicated topic notebook, adds your provided URLs as initial sources, and then expands coverage by performing deep web research to gather over 20 additional sources.

Validating sources before brainstorming prevents starting with assumptions or guesswork. By reviewing gathered evidence and removing irrelevant web sources first, the final synthesis ensures your brainstorming is grounded in accurate, reviewed information.

You do not need to provide seed URLs to run deep web research. While you can include trusted URLs to seed the NotebookLM notebook, the Skill independently performs deep mode research to gather 20+ web sources for evidence collection and theme synthesis.