notebook_list
Get an overview of all your notebooks, including titles, source counts, and ownership metadata.
How to use it
notebook_list is exposed by the Notebooklm MCP MCP server. Add the server to your MCP client (Claude Desktop, Cursor, Windsurf and others), and the notebook_list tool becomes available to the model automatically. See the full listing for setup details and every tool this server provides.
Install Notebooklm MCP
npx -y @m4ykeldev/notebooklm-mcp serveOther tools in Notebooklm MCP (26)
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Connect and import documents, sheets, or slides from your Google Drive.
Ingest raw text snippets or local file contents directly into your project.
Add any website or YouTube video as a source. Transcripts are automatically handled.
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Permanently remove a notebook (requires explicit confirmation).
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Ask complex, grounded questions. Answers are cited directly from your sources.
Update the title of an existing notebook.
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Manually trigger a session refresh if you encounter connection issues.
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Track the progress of active research tasks and view discovered insights.
Manually save cookie data (legacy fallback method).
Turn your research into a presenter-ready slide deck automatically.
Remove a specific source from your notebook.
Get detailed AI analysis, summaries, and key topics for any individual source.
Extract the full underlying text of a source for processing by other AI tools.
Sync selected Google Drive sources to pull the latest changes into NotebookLM.
Check the generation status of your Studio artifacts and get download links.
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