open-notebook
Category: literature-review · License: MIT · Version: 1.3 · Includes scripts
Tags: research notebooks, document analysis, NotebookLM alternative, knowledge management
When to use it
Self-hosted, open-source alternative to Google NotebookLM for AI-powered research and document analysis. Use when organizing research materials into notebooks, ingesting diverse content sources (PDFs, videos, audio, web pages, Office documents), generating AI-powered notes and summaries, creating multi-speaker podcasts from research, chatting with documents using context-aware AI, searching across materials with full-text and vector search, or running custom content transformations. Supports 16+ AI providers including OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Ollama, Groq, and Mistral with complete data privacy through self-hosting.Example requests
Ask your agent in plain language, for example:- “How do I set up Open Notebook locally with Ollama so I can chat with my PDFs?”
- “I have 40 PDFs from my glioblastoma review in ~/papers/gbm and a few YouTube talks. I’m running the self-hosted open-notebook container and POST /api/sources keeps returning an error after I created the notebook. Can you help me script ingesting everything into one notebook, then run a vector search for ‘temozolomide resistance’?”
- “I’d like to turn my collected papers and interview recordings on microplastics into a short two-host audio discussion I can listen to on my commute, and keep everything on our own lab server because of consent restrictions. What are my options?”
Install
/plugin marketplace add KalarisLabs/research-agent-skills and install the whole literature-review category with /plugin install literature-review@research-agent-skills.