lfnovo/open-notebook
An Open Source implementation of Notebook LM with more flexibility and features
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Where it stands
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Ranks #301 of 2,794 repositories GStars tracks this week (top 11%).
1 release in the last 90 days, the latest 16 days ago, with 87 contributors on GitHub.
Peaked at #1 in the weekly ranking the week of Dec 21, its best in the past year.
Use Cases & Benefits
- Implements an open source, privacy-focused notebook system supporting multi-modal research content and AI-powered note-taking and chat.
- Offers complete data control with multi-provider AI support and advanced podcast generation, avoiding vendor lock-in and cloud dependencies.
- Use for managing and organizing diverse research materials privately across multiple notebooks with intelligent search and AI context chat.
- Use for generating professional multi-speaker podcasts from research content with customizable episode profiles and scripting control.
- Use for integrating AI workflows programmatically via a comprehensive REST API supporting 16+ AI providers and customizable content transformations.
Should you depend on it?
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License
MIT
Permissive: commercial use, modification and redistribution are allowed with attribution.
Community files
- README: present
- Contributing guide: present
- Code of conduct: present
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From the README
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Open Notebook is under active development! We're moving fast and making improvements every week. Your feedback is incredibly valuable to me during this exciting phase and it gives me motivation to keep improving and building this amazing tool. Please feel free to star the project if you find it useful, and don't hesitate to reach out with any questions or suggestions. I'm excited to see how you'll use it and what ideas you'll bring to the project! Let's build something amazing together! 🚀
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 provider.
Open Notebook empowers you to:
Learn more about our project at https://www.open-notebook.ai
Daily snapshots
Stars gained per day, and how forks and open issues moved, from GStars' daily snapshots
+4,324 stars over 86 days across 15 snapshot days; best day +83 on Aug 28.
Forks
4.7K+531
Open issues
180+66
Compared with peers in Education
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| lfnovo/open-notebook | 40.4K | +0 | 64 | 16 days ago |
| processing/p5.js | 24.2K | +0 | 65 | 2 days ago |
| Category median | 43.2K | +216 | 75 | — |
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