In case you have not heard about this before, I wanted to let people know about a very helpful AI tool I use for asking rules questions and receiving answers that Google created. It is called
NotebookLM (LM for Language Model), that is limited to only using the sources of information (typically .pdf files) that you have uploaded to that Notebook. In other words, this tool doesn't go out to the web to do research and make up answers to your questions, it is limited to using only the source documents (say PG 4th Edition Rules .pdf file) that you have uploaded to the Notebook.
To use this tool, which Google provides without charge, go to the
NotebookLM website (you can click on that link to open in a new webpage). You can do this in Google Chrome, or Microsoft Edge, and maybe other browsers as well. On the webpage, you simply click on the black button near the upper right of the webpage to "+ Create new", and it will open with three panels on the page. The left panel is where you will upload (and later select which sources to use or to not use), the middle panel is for "chatting" with the tool - that is to say, where you will ask your questions, as well as where NotebookLM will answer your questions. The panel on the right can be used to summarize source documents, or create flash cards, or slides, or mind maps and other things. Google has a very helpful help section as the first item you can select under the 'Settings" button in the upper right corner of the webpage near your name/profile. Here is another link where Google explains about NotebookLM:
Google NotebookLM | AI Research Tool & Thinking Partner that you can check out.
It takes about ten minutes or less to get this set up using a PG rules .pdf file. The responses it gives include numbered circles which you can click on and it will take you to the actual text of the rules in the left-hand panel that it used to respond to your question. You can also save the answer as a note, which it will post in the right-hand panel as a running list, so you can see the answers to previous questions you have asked, and it answered.
I have been using this now for several months for different wargames rule sets (each in its own NotebookLM) on the webpage which I have bookmarked. I had an idea that AI should be useful for helping us wargamers with rules, and it was Dickie at
RvT Wargames on Consimworld.com where I first learned about NotebookLM from one of his videos.
Let me know what you think once you have added this tool to your toolbox for helping to understand and answer rules questions.
