Is it worth it to stick with a gemini pro subscription solely for NotebookLM? I do a very specific sort of large file litigation where 95% of my workload is organizing huge legal files into timelines. I've been doing this manually for ages, but found that NotebookLM can do that job better than I can, effectively just organizing and turning all of the dates from the documents into the spreadsheets that I need. It's incredible, and saves me a lot of time while making me a LOT of money. I've even started offering this service to other legal professionals and they're thankful whenever I can organize these large files for them. My question is this: Gemini is a so-so general use LLM. I've used Claude before but the contexts are dogshit, and I used to use ChatGPT (the earliest version of this work that I'm doing now was done using a ChatGPT agent, but it would halucinate and fuck shit up). Is there really anything that does what NotebookLM does? Preferably not on a local machine as I mostly am just using a shitty old core i5 thinkpad. Is there any competition to NotebookLM at all? From my experience it's more accurate than even I am with the type of work I use it for, but if there's a better option I obviously want to switch to that - I say this because people's complaints about gemini are very well founded. It's just not that great compared to claude; though it's still good for things that aren't coding, and I don't do much coding these days.
