Open Notebook

What it does

Open Notebook takes in sources such as links, PDFs, TXT files, PPT presentations, YouTube videos and your own notes. You organize them into notebooks, and the AI helps summarize, extract key points, answer questions about your collected material and generate new notes or insights. It can also turn notes into podcast-style episodes with customizable voices and speakers.

People use it as a study and research workspace: create a notebook per topic, add materials, run transformations to extract summaries, then ask questions or test their understanding. For each question you choose which sources or notes are exposed to the AI model, and you can choose which model to use. The project is open source and draws on the Zettelkasten approach of linked atomic notes.

It suits researchers, students and professionals who want to keep learning material private and control their AI model choices. Access is through the project's Get Started page and its GitHub repository. A native mobile app is only a planned roadmap item, and the project describes its current release as a first step.

What it can do

• Create unlimited notebooks as learning or research spaces
• Add links, PDFs, TXT, PPT, YouTube videos, and notes as sources
• Generate summaries, key points, and insights from sources with a chosen LLM
• Ask questions about collected material and select which sources the AI can access
• Generate podcast-style episodes from notes with customizable voices and speakers
• Create notes manually, with AI assistance, or a combination of both

Before you choose

• The AI model is user-selectable, so you need to choose and configure the model you want to use.
• A native mobile app is a planned roadmap item, not a current feature.
• The project describes its current release as a first step, so expect an evolving feature set.

Listed under

• Productivity
• Knowledge and search
• Learning
• Note-taking
• Open source
• Podcasts
• Privacy
• Research

Get started

Linked from the Get Started page and the GitHub repository.

1. Visit the Get Started page on open-notebook.ai to begin.
2. Open the GitHub repository to review the source code and installation instructions.
3. Create a notebook for a topic, then add your sources such as PDFs, links, or videos.

Core features are stated to remain free and open source. Any cost for a chosen LLM provider or for hosting is not specified and should be checked before use.

We couldn’t find published prices for Open Notebook. See their pricing page ↗

Sources for this overview

Product pages, documentation, and pricing checked 29 Oct 2026. Each source supports part of the overview; availability and prices can change.

• What is Open Notebook? | Open Notebook ↗www.open-notebook.ai
• Our Vision | Open Notebook ↗www.open-notebook.ai
• What is Open Notebook? | Open Notebook ↗www.open-notebook.ai
• How does it actually work? | Open Notebook ↗www.open-notebook.ai

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Last checked 29 Oct 2026. Every field keeps its source and date; unknown means we couldn’t confirm it.