An open source, privacy-focused alternative to Google's Notebook LM!
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An open source, privacy-focused alternative to Google's Notebook LM. Why give Google more of our data when we can take control of our own research workflows?
In a world dominated by Artificial Intelligence, having the ability to think 🧠 and acquire new knowledge 💡, is a skill that should not be a privilege for a few, nor restricted to a single provider.
Open Notebook empowers you to manage your research, generate AI-assisted notes, and interact with your content—on your terms.
Learn more about our project at https://www.open-notebook.ai
Go to the Setup Guide to learn how to set up the tool in details.
To setup with Docker/Portainer:
version: '3'
services:
surrealdb:
image: surrealdb/surrealdb:v2
ports:
- "8000:8000"
volumes:
- surreal_data:/mydata
command: start --log trace --user root --pass root rocksdb:/mydata/mydatabase.db
pull_policy: always
user: root
open_notebook:
image: lfnovo/open_notebook:latest
ports:
- "8080:8502"
env_file:
- ./docker.env
depends_on:
- surrealdb
pull_policy: always
volumes:
surreal_data:
Take a look at the Open Notebook Boilerplate repo with a sample of how to set it up for maximum feature usability.
Go to the Usage page to learn how to use all features.
- Multi-Notebook Support: Organize your research across multiple notebooks effortlessly.
- Multi-model support: Open AI, Anthropic, Gemini, Vertex AI, Open Router, Ollama.
- Podcast Generator: Automatically convert your notes into a podcast format.
- Broad Content Integration: Works with links, PDFs, EPUB, Office, TXT, Markdown files, YouTube videos, Audio files, Video files and pasted text.
- AI-Powered Notes: Write notes yourself or let the AI assist you in generating insights.
- Integrated Search Engines: Built-in full-text and vector search for faster information retrieval.
- Fine-Grained Context Management: Choose exactly what to share with the AI to maintain control.
- Added the Gemini model for generating much more fluid and engaging podcasts
- Ask questions about your documents and get answers with citations
- Manage your AI models and providers in a single interface
- Define default models for several tasks such as chat, transformation, embedding, etc
- Enabled support for Embedding models from Gemini, Vertex and Ollama
You can now process ePub and Office files (Word, Excel, PowerPoint), extracting text and insights from them. Perfect for books, reports, presentations, and more.
You can now process audio and video files, extracting transcripts and insights from them. Perfect for podcasts, interviews, lectures, and more.
You can now build amazing custom podcasts based on your own data. Customize your speakers, episode structure, cadence, voices, etc.
Check out a sample using my own voice created on Eleven Labs and a interview format.
You can generate your podcast in dozens of languages.
Head to the Podcasts page for more info
We just release a much more powerful way to create more value from your sources. Transformations enable you do extract an unlimited amount of insights from your content. It's 100% customizable and you can extend it to your own needs, like Paper Analysis, Article Writing, etc.
Head to the Transformations page for more info
- OpenAI
- Anthropic
- Open Router
- LiteLLM
- Vertex AI
- Ollama
Three intuitive columns to streamline your work:
- Sources: Manage all research materials.
- Notes: Create or AI-generate notes.
- Chat: Chat with the AI, leveraging your content.
Take control of your data. Decide what gets sent to the AI with three context options:
- No context
- Summary only
- Full content
Plus, you can add your project description to help the AI provide more accurate and helpful responses.
Locate anything across your research with ease using full-text and vector-based search.
Jinja based prompts that are easy to customize to your own preferences.
- Live Front-End Updates: Real-time UI updates for a smoother experience.
- Async Processing: Faster UI through asynchronous content processing.
- Cross-Notebook Sources and Notes: Reuse research notes across projects.
- Bookmark Integration: Integrate with your favorite bookmarking app.
- ✅ Multi-model support: Open AI, Anthropic, Vertex AI, Open Router, Ollama, etc.
- ✅ Insight Generation: New tools for creating insights - transformations
- ✅ Podcast Generator: Automatically convert your notes into a podcast format.
- ✅ Multiple Chat Sessions: Juggle different discussions within the same notebook.
- ✅ Enhanced Citations: Improved layout and finer control for citations.
- ✅ Better Embeddings & Summarization: Smarter ways to distill information.
See the open issues for a full list of proposed features (and known issues).
We would love your contributions! Specifically, we're looking for help with:
- Front-End Development: Improve the UI/UX by moving beyond Streamlit.
- Testing & Bug Fixes: Help make Open Notebook more robust.
- Feature Development: Let’s make the coolest note-taking tool together!
See more at CONTRIBUTING
Open Notebook is MIT licensed. See the LICENSE file for details.
Luis Novo - @lfnovo
This project uses some amazing third-party libraries
- Podcastfy - Licensed under the Apache License 2.0