batch PDF download

Feature requests
1

I use NotebookLM quite a bit, and it would be great if it were easier to download a batch of PDFs from Paperpile directly to my computer. This would make it much easier to spin up a NotebookLM instance and drop in a bunch of papers as sources.

Perhaps the most intuitive way would be to integrate a “PDF” option into the existing Export menu – instead of exporting citations in BibTeX, CSV, etc, it would export a zipped file of PDFs.

2

Thank you for sharing the details of your use case for the need for bulk download for PDFs directly from Paperpile, @bryanbriney. I’ve added your +1 to this request on our internal feature tracker for consideration at a later date.

The workaround for now is to sync your files to Google Drive, and you can download a batch of PDFs from there. In Google Drive, files are organized in subfolders sorted alphabetically by the first author’s last name. For easier export, you can change how files are organized and named via Settings > General, and under File and Folder names, click Set file and folder name pattern.

3

Just chiming in here to add to Suzanne’s helpful response on what can be done in the product today.

How to more easily get full-text PDFs into apps like NotebookLM is a user flow we are actively working on (like, devs on keyboards this week building stuff).

We’re always looking to get more signal on the ways of working & problems researchers are actually trying to solve. If you ever have a minute, I’d love to hear your response to a few leading questions. (Alternatively, I’m happy to set up a Zoom call – https://pprpl.co/meet-with-greg to grab time.)

  1. How many papers at t time do you typically find yourself adding to NotebookLM?
  2. Within NotebookLM, what features do you find most useful for your work? (e.g. do you just want to ask a chat-style question? Generate an audio overview? Explore the mind-map?)
  3. What’s the overall output when you work with NotebookLM: are you developing your internal understanding of a topic, or do you typically export notes into some other format?

We appreciate your input. I hope to be able to share our team’s progress on this front soon!