Open Notebook
Open source NotebookLM alternative
148 followers
Open source NotebookLM alternative
148 followers
All the familiar UI of NotebookLM but with fully customizable apps like video generators, podcast creators, and more. Remix existing apps or create your own.
Free
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Hey Product Hunt 👋 I’m Nazar, the creator of Open Notebook, and I’m excited to share it with you today!
📖 Open Notebook is a customizable AI tool for self-learning. You upload your sources (PDFs, research papers, URLs, etc.), then you can either chat with an AI about them or run “apps” that transform your sources. Apps can do anything - right now I’ve built two:
• 🎬 Turn a source into a short, fun video overview
• 📝 Summarize a source into digestible takeaways
I built Open Notebook to solve one of my own biggest problems - the pain of learning something new. Like many of you, I love learning new things - I’m a programmer by background, but I constantly dive into adjacent fields like electronics, space, and math.
The problem? Self-learning today feel like a slog (yes, even with ChatGPT):
• 😴 Long, boring YouTube videos or courses
• 🤖 ChatGPT conversations that quickly get tiring and repetitive
• 📜 And the worst of them all - reading long PDFs and textbooks
When I saw NotebookLM, I was intrigued - it promised to make learning content more engaging. But I was disappointed by how rigid it was. The outputs weren’t bad, but they weren’t _mine_. There was no way to tweak, remix, or really control the process.
✨ 📖 So I built Open Notebook - an open, customizable alternative. Instead of locking you into defaults, it exposes the entire source of the AI workflows (LLM prompts, steps, formats) behind outputs like videos, podcasts, or summaries. You can see exactly how your content is generated, remix it however you like, and even share your workflows with others to reuse in their own notebooks.
If you're looking to improve your self-learning sessions using AI to make them just a bit more fun and efficient, give Open Notebook a try.
Reach out if you have any questions or just want to chat about AI in education in general!
@nazar_ilamanov I am so happy to see this app and i have some questions is this totally free of cost
@harshit_paradox no, it's paid, if you want something free use notebooklm
Congrats on your launch, Nazar! Your focus on customizable AI workflows for self-learning really addresses the frustrations many of us face with rigid tools. The ability to remix and share workflows sounds powerful and unique. What kinds of content or subjects have you found users are most excited to explore with Open Notebook so far?🤔
@lvyanghuang Thank you Shake! So far people have been using it to create a short video overview of articles in their read-it-later lists/bookmarks
Does it have interactive audio to chat with sources?
I don’t mean Audio like in notebook lm.
But if it's open source, where's the source code? Do you have a GitHub repo? Or is it just SaaS software? If so, why "open"?
@varsha_soni3 Looks like a good way to build custom video overviews from product documentation?
Got excited when I saw this but unfortunately this isn't open source. Open source to the development community means something completely different than what the author intended to communicate.
It's nice to see some new products coming out.
But I think you are using open source as a gimmick here, and your project is not open source.
You have wasted my time using such concepts, and I even tried hard to find out if there is a source code on your website.
You can explain this. If I misunderstood, I can apologize to you.