MODSetter/SurfSense
Air-gapped, privacy-focused, open-source NotebookLM alternative. AI agent that researches, transforms, and edits your documents. Join our Discord: https://discord.gg/ejRNvftDp9
Build with Backblaze B2
SDKs, agent skills, IDE extensions, and reference pipelines from Backblaze Labs. All open source.
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Where it stands
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5 releases in the last 90 days, the latest 7 days ago, with 111 contributors on GitHub.
Peaked at #3 in the weekly ranking the week of Dec 21, its best in the past year.
Use Cases & Benefits
- Provides a privacy-focused, self-hosted AI research agent integrating personal knowledge bases with external sources for advanced information retrieval.
- Enables highly customizable, local deployment with extensive file format support and seamless integration of multiple data sources for secure, private research workflows.
- Use for building a private AI-powered research assistant that interacts with your documents, emails, and collaboration tools in natural language.
- Use for creating fast, automated podcast summaries from chat conversations using local or cloud-based text-to-speech providers.
- Use for deploying a hybrid semantic and full-text search system combining vector embeddings and rerankers to enhance knowledge discovery across diverse data formats.
Should you depend on it?
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License
Apache 2.0
Permissive: commercial use, modification and redistribution are allowed with attribution; includes an explicit patent grant from contributors.
Community files
- README: present
- Contributing guide: present
- Code of conduct: present
Watch-outs
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From the README
While tools like NotebookLM and Perplexity are impressive and highly effective for conducting research on any topic/query, SurfSense elevates this capability by integrating with your personal knowledge base. It is a highly customizable AI research agent, connected to external sources such as Search Engines (Tavily, LinkUp), Slack, Linear, Jira, ClickUp, Confluence, Gmail, Notion, YouTube, GitHub, Discord, Google Calendar and more to come.
Daily snapshots
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Forks
1.6K+91
Open issues
64-55
Compared with peers in AI Agents
Fastest-growing repositories GStars tracks in this cohort for the week of Nov 8, by 7-day star growth
| Repository | Stars | +7d | Health | Last release |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| morluto/rea | 450.0K | +22.9K | 75 | 16 days ago |
| vercel-labs/agent-desktop | 21.4K | +8.7K | 75 | 5 days ago |
| milind-soni/OpenMausBot | 20.6K | +8.4K | 75 | today |
| stablyai/orca | 121.4K | +6.7K | 75 | today |
| thedotmack/claude-mem | 115.8K | +4.7K | 75 | today |
| MODSetter/SurfSense | 16.8K | — | 75 | 7 days ago |
| Category median | 115.8K | +8.4K | 75 | — |
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