# lfnovo/open-notebook

An Open Source implementation of Notebook LM with more flexibility and features

Repository: https://github.com/lfnovo/open-notebook
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/open-notebook
Homepage: https://www.open-notebook.ai
Language: TypeScript
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Topics: assistant, learning, note-taking, notebook, notes-app, self-learning
Last push: 2026-08-16T14:51:59+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 86/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 98, release rhythm 93, longevity 48
- inputs: {"age_days": 681, "days_push": 17, "days_rel": 44, "gap_med": 5, "n_releases_24m": 40}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 37711, forks 4351 (observed 2026-08-28T04:12:01.540612+00:00)

## What it is
Open Notebook is an open-source, privacy-focused alternative to Google's Notebook LM that lets users organize multi-modal sources (PDFs, videos, web pages, audio) into notebooks and interact with them via AI chat, notes, and search. It supports 18+ AI model providers including local options like Ollama, and can generate multi-speaker podcasts from notes.

## Use cases
- build a private AI research notebook from PDFs and web pages
- chat with an AI assistant grounded in my own documents
- generate a podcast from my notes
- search across all my research with full-text and vector search
- summarize YouTube videos and articles into notes
- use local LLMs like Ollama for private note-taking
- organize a large reading backlog into searchable knowledge bases

## When to choose
- you want a Notebook LM alternative with full data privacy and self-hosting
- you need flexibility to pick from many AI providers including local models
- you want multi-modal source ingestion (PDF, video, audio, web) with AI chat and podcast generation

## When to avoid
- you just need simple markdown note-taking without AI features
- you prefer a fully managed cloud service with zero setup
- you don't want to manage Docker deployments or API keys

## Facets
- artifact type: application
- maturity: active
- function: rag, search-engine, chatbot, nlp, llm-inference, tts, data-visualization
- domain: artificial-intelligence, large-language-models, developer-tools, education, self-hosted, privacy
- platform: self-hosted, cross-platform
- tags: notebook-lm-alternative, note-taking, podcast-generation, vector-search, multi-model, research-assistant, knowledge-management, retrieval-augmented-generation, docker, web-server

## Member repositories
- lfnovo/open-notebook (main) score 86

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:12:01.540612+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-29T16:25:12.820060+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/lfnovo/open-notebook (fetched 2026-08-28T04:12:01.540612+00:00, sha 5986b03cd2eb)
  - homepage: https://www.open-notebook.ai (fetched 2026-08-29T07:47:27.417394+00:00, sha 43b78bbcb230)
  - site_page: https://www.open-notebook.ai/features (fetched 2026-08-29T07:47:27.423064+00:00, sha 708afe6b89b3)
  - site_page: https://www.open-notebook.ai/basics (fetched 2026-08-29T07:47:27.420947+00:00, sha 18c9e0fdd6c9)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.