Open Notebook Review: Self-Hosted NotebookLM Alternative (opens in new tab)

Originally published on andrew.ooo — visit the original for any updates, code snippets that aged out, or follow-up posts. TL;DR Open Notebook (by Luis Novo / lfnovo) is the open-source answer to Google's NotebookLM — and it's having a moment. This week it cleared 28,152 stars on GitHub (+3,891 in seven days) and currently sits in the top-15 weekly Python trending. Drop in PDFs, YouTube videos, web pages, audio, or office docs; chat with them, search them, generate multi-speaker podcasts from ...