NotebookLM or ChatGPT Projects for a folder of PDFs you actually have to cite. Which one, and why?

[u/NeuralNomad87]

Two threads here this week ended up in the same place. Someone wanted study material out of a pile of course PDFs, someone else wanted a plan document turned into slides, and both got told "just upload it" as if that settles it.

It does not settle it, because the two obvious options work differently. NotebookLM keeps everything scoped to the sources you gave it and points at the passage it used. ChatGPT Projects keeps the files sitting next to a normal chat, so it is more flexible and much easier to lose track of where an answer came from.

So: a folder of PDFs, and you need answers you can trace back to a page. Which of the two are you actually opening, and what made you pick it?

One line is fine. If you tried one and went back to the other, that is the answer I most want to read.