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Graduate-level slides without graduate-level suffering
The exact system to turn hundreds of papers into a presentation without reading every single word.
You Are Buried Alive in Literature
You have a folder on your desktop. One in iCloud. One in OneDrive. One in Dropbox. One on the dusty unix server in your department’s cold storage unit. They are all full of PDFs you haven’t read. You have a presentation coming up. You need to sound smart, prepared, and current.
But you are stuck.
You try to read everything. You highlight. You take notes. You lose hours down rabbit holes. The deadline gets closer. The anxiety gets worse. You worry that you missed a key paper. You worry your research question is weak. You worry that you will look like a fool in front of your department.
Most researchers think this is just part of the job. They think suffering is necessary for rigour.
They are wrong.
A New Way to Manage Literature
You don’t need to work harder. You need a better tool stack.
The NotebookLM Research Slide Deck Course changes how you work. It uses a specific combination of NotebookLM, Gamma, and Gemini to handle the heavy lifting.
This is not AI writing your thesis for you. It is using technology to sort, synthesize, and structure your ideas so you can focus on the actual research. You stay in control. The AI does the grunt work. Awesome.
What you get (inside Notion)
The Core Strategy 1-Hour Video Course Recording: I walk you through the entire workflow. No fluff. Watch me build a deck from scratch. You might have seen the live stream on LinkedIn or YouTube already.
The Research Question Generator: A tested prompt structure to turn vague topics into rigorous inquiries using Perplexity.
The Mini Brain Setup Guide: How to configure NotebookLM to handle up to 300 sources at once.
The Slide Outline Prompt: The exact command to give Gemini so it builds a logical argument
The Em-Dash Killer Prompt: A special prompt to clean up AI writing so it sounds human and follows strict style rules.
You’ll get the outcome you want in a fraction of the time
Speed: Go from a folder of PDFs to a first draft in under 20 minutes.
Clarity: Spot gaps in your research immediately.
Confidence: Know your slide deck is built on actual data, not hallucinations.
Quality: Produce slides that look better than 90% of what you see at conferences.
Focus: Spend your time rehearsing your talk, not fighting with PowerPoint formatting.
Bonus
A list of academic Chrome extensions to supercharge Google Scholar and NotebookLM.
Guarantee
Try the system for 30 days. If you don’t create the easiest presentation of your career in half the time, email me. I will issue you a store credit for the original price. No questions. No hassle.
People pay thousands for research coaching to get these kinds of results. You can get the same outcome for the price of a cheap TV dinner for the next 3 days.
All my best,
Lennart
Wow, the part about researchers thinking suffering is necessary for rigour really stood out to me. You've absolutely nailed that obeservation.