Exporting Google NotebookLM Notes Is a Mess — So I Wrote a Python Script for It

Google’s NotebookLM is a handy tool for interacting with your documents and taking notes from them. But if you’ve tried exporting your saved notes, you’ll quickly run into a frustrating problem. There’s no export option in the app itself. You can’t easily back up your notes, search through them offline, or move them to another tool. The only official way to get your notes is by downloading them all at once — but this comes with a big downside: it dumps everything together into a single file. This ruins the structure of individual notes and strips away important formatting, making the notes messy and harder to work with. I faced this issue myself, so I decided to fix it.

Apr 27, 2025 - 08:34

Exporting Google NotebookLM Notes Is a Mess — So I Wrote a Python Script for It

Google’s NotebookLM is a handy tool for interacting with your documents and taking notes from them. But if you’ve tried exporting your saved notes, you’ll quickly run into a frustrating problem.

There’s no export option in the app itself. You can’t easily back up your notes, search through them offline, or move them to another tool. The only official way to get your notes is by downloading them all at once — but this comes with a big downside: it dumps everything together into a single file. This ruins the structure of individual notes and strips away important formatting, making the notes messy and harder to work with.

I faced this issue myself, so I decided to fix it.