open-notebook

To organize Zotero research for literature review, you group papers and materials into notebooks, ingest PDFs or web pages as searchable sources, and use AI chat to ask context-aware questions. This creates a centralized, self-hosted workspace.

Yes, you can chat with PDFs and extract structured information from research papers. The AI analysis feature allows you to ask context-aware questions, generate notes, and run custom transformations across your ingested sources.

Yes, this systematic review tool supports ingesting audio, video, and Office documents. You can add these formats alongside PDFs, web pages, and raw text as fully searchable sources within your project notebooks.

Yes, you need Docker to deploy this self-hosted AI assistant for research notes. Docker-based deployment is required to run the environment, alongside a configured AI provider and encrypted credential storage for secure access.

The best way to run semantic search across scattered research files is to ingest them into a centralized notebook, which enables both full-text and vector search across all content for evidence synthesis and discovery workflows.