Open Notebook
AppSelf-hosted research notebook
Use it when you want a local, private AI research assistant over your PDFs, videos and notes
A self-hostable AI research assistant that works over PDFs, videos, websites and notes.
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From the makersREADME, read 21 Oct
Open Notebook is an open source, self-hosted implementation of Google's Notebook LM. It organises PDFs, videos, audio, web pages and Office documents into notebooks, with full-text and vector search, chat with citations, and multi-speaker podcast generation. It connects to 20+ AI providers, including local models through Ollama and LM Studio, and exposes a full REST API.
Install
docker compose up -dCommands
mkdir open-notebook && cd open-notebookCreate a project folder
curl -o docker-compose.yml https://raw.githubusercontent.com/lfnovo/open-notebook/main/docker-compose.ymlDownload the official compose file