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Posted by Dr Andus
Oct 21, 2025 at 05:38 PM
In the article I linked to, the author used an Obsidian plugin that did the job (the Vault 2 Book plugin):
https://www.xda-developers.com/move-obsidian-knowledge-vault-to-notebooklm-with-plugins/
Amontillado wrote:
Just curious - how would one concatenate all the markdown files in
>Windows.
>
>Linux and Mac are easy - in a terminal window, cd to the Obsidian vault
>and run find . -name \*.md -exec cat {} >> bulk.txt \;
>
>I really need to learn more things like Powershell. I’m stuck in a bash
>world.
Posted by Dr Andus
Dec 1, 2025 at 02:09 PM
I realise now why I got this impression. I confused Gemini sign-up with the NotebookLM sign-up process.
It’s the Gemini terms that seemed too invasive to me. I just tried to sign up again and was confronted with this:
“What activity is collected
Google collects your chats and what you share with Gemini (like files, videos, screens and photos). It also collects transcripts and recordings of your Gemini Live interactions, your feedback, info from websites that you visit with Gemini, product usage and location info (including your device’s general location, IP address or Home or Work addresses in your Google Account).”
And you either accept this or you can’t use Gemini. This is what seemed way too invasive to me.
satis wrote:
>
>Dr Andus wrote:
>
>>every time I tried to sign up and have read through their privacy
>>policy during sign-up, it seemed to me that they were asking me to
>allow
>>them complete and absolute access to all my data and everything that
>I’m
>>doing
>
>I don’t think that’s accurate.
>
>NotebookLM does not use user data to train its AI models. Google baldly
>states, “NotebookLM does not use your personal data, including your
>source uploads, queries, and the responses from the model for training.”
Posted by satis
Dec 1, 2025 at 09:13 PM
Google offers a setting called “Keep Activity” and turning it off prevents new chats from being stored long-term and excludes them from model-training and human review. You can also remove precise-location permissions in your device settings; in that case Gemini receives only coarse/general IP-based location info.
I keep location services disabled for nearly all my apps in iOS, and the only effect is that an app will request one-time access when it actually needs it (if I allow it to ask in per-app settings) such as the Starbucks app asking for location so I can select a pickup store.
You further reduce data exposure by leaving connected-app integrations disabled and not using features like “Gemini in Chrome,” which tend to funnel browsing information into the service.
With business/enterprise/government Gemini accounts (eg Google Workspace) conversations remain within the organization and data is not used for external model-training by google… but retention and deletion follow the organization’s administrative policies.
Most competing large-language-model services like ChatGPT and Claude have data-privacy provisions that are broadly similar to those of Gemini in that they collect user inputs, metadata, and (depending on settings) may use user data for model training, with opt-outs in (occasionally obscure) settings.