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A self-hosted, multi-model alternative to Google NotebookLM.
Best for
Researchers who want NotebookLM-style source chat and podcast generation without handing documents to Google.
Why it deserves attention
Open Notebook ingests PDFs, web pages, audio, and video, indexes them with full-text and vector search, and lets you chat with citations across the sources in a notebook. It connects to 20+ providers, including OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, and local servers such as Ollama and LM Studio, and can generate multi-speaker podcasts with custom scripts. It runs from Docker Compose with a Next.js UI and SurrealDB, is MIT-licensed, and keeps API keys encrypted in your own deployment. The trade-off is that it is self-hosted: you run Docker, manage the database and encryption key, and pay for whichever model provider you connect.
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Can replace
- NotebookLM
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