Open Notebook

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name: open-notebook
description: Self-hosted, open-source alternative to Google NotebookLM for AI-powered research and document analysis. Use when organizing research materials into notebooks, ingesting diverse content sources (PDFs, videos, audio, web pages, Office documents), generating AI-powered notes and summaries, creating multi-speaker podcasts from research, chatting with documents using context-aware AI, searching across materials with full-text and vector search, or running custom content transformations. Supports 16+ AI providers including OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Ollama, Groq, and Mistral with complete data privacy through self-hosting.
license: MIT
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# Open Notebook

## Overview

Open Notebook is an open-source, self-hosted alternative to Google's NotebookLM that enables researchers to organize materials, generate AI-powered insights, create podcasts, and have context-aware conversations with their documents — all while maintaining complete data privacy.

Unlike Google's Notebook LM, which has no publicly available API outside of the Enterprise version, Open Notebook provides a comprehensive REST API, supports 16+ AI providers, and runs entirely on your own infrastructure.

**Key advantages over NotebookLM:**
- Full REST API for programmatic access and automation
- Choice of 16+ AI providers (not locked to Google models)
- Multi-speaker podcast generation with 1-4 customizable speakers (vs. 2-speaker limit)
- Complete data sovereignty through self-hosting
- Open source and fully extensible (MIT license)

**Repository:** https://github.com/lfnovo/open-notebook
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