Open Notebook
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 company.
Open Notebook empowers you to manage your research, generate AI-assisted notes, and interact with your content—on your terms.
⚙️ Setting Up
Go to the Setup Guide to learn how to set up the tool in details.
But, the gist of it is:
git clone https://github.com/lfnovo/open_notebook.git
cd open_notebook
cp .env.sample .env
poetry install
poetry run streamlit run app_home.py
or 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:
- "8502:8502"
env_file:
- ./docker.env
depends_on:
- surrealdb
pull_policy: always
volumes:
surreal_data:
Usage Instructions
Go to the Usage page to learn how to use all features.
Features
- Multi-Notebook Support: Organize your research across multiple notebooks effortlessly.
- Broad Content Integration: Works with links, PDFs, TXT files, PowerPoint presentations, YouTube videos, and pasted text (audio/video support coming soon).
- AI-Powered Notes: Write notes yourself or let the AI assist you in generating insights.
- Recursive Summarization: Tackle large content by recursively summarizing it.
- 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.
- Cost Estimation: Estimate costs for large context processing to keep budget control in check.
🚀 New Features
v0.0.2 - Several new providers are supported now:
- OpenAI
- Anthropic
- Open Router
- LiteLLM
- Vertex AI
- Ollama
📝 Notebook Page
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.
⚙️ Context Configuration
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.
🔍 Integrated Search for Your Items
Locate anything across your research with ease using full-text and vector-based search.
💬 Powerful open prompts
Jinja based prompts that are easy to customize to your own preferences.
🌟 Coming Soon
- Podcast Generator: Automatically convert your notes into a podcast format.
- Multi-model support: Anthropic, Gemini, Mistral, Ollama coming soon.
- Enhanced Citations: Improved layout and finer control for citations.
- Insight Generation: New tools for creating insights, leveraging the Fabric framework.
- Better Embeddings & Summarization: Smarter ways to distill information.
- Multiple Chat Sessions: Juggle different discussions within the same notebook.
- Live Front-End Updates: Real-time UI updates for a smoother experience.
- Async Processing: Faster UI through asynchronous content processing.
- Improved Error Handling: Making everything more robust.
- Cross-Notebook Sources and Notes: Reuse research notes across projects.
- Bookmark Integration: Integrate with your favorite bookmarking app.
💻 Tech Stack
- Streamlit: For the front-end (Looking to move out of Streamlit. Contributors welcome!).
- SurrealDB: Fast, scalable database solution.
- Langchain/Langgraph: The backbone for LLM interactions.
🙌 Help Wanted
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
📄 License
Open Notebook is MIT licensed. See the LICENSE file for details.
Your contributions, feature requests, and bug reports are always welcome. Let's build a research tool that respects our privacy and makes learning truly open for everyone. ✨