open-notebook

To self-host research notes, deploy an Open Notebook instance with Docker Compose, create a notebook, and ingest PDFs or web articles. The system processes these sources to enable semantic search, context-aware chat, and AI-generated summaries grounded in your uploaded documents.

Yes, you can run semantic search across multiple ingested documents. Open Notebook supports both full-text and vector search to retrieve relevant information, allowing you to ask context-aware questions and receive answers with citations directly grounded in your sources.

Yes, document ingestion supports web pages and audio video sources. Open Notebook enables multi-format source ingestion, allowing you to process PDFs, Office documents, audio, video, web pages, and raw text so your entire research library becomes searchable.

You generate study notes from research materials by running content transformations within Open Notebook. This feature extracts structured information and produces AI-generated outputs, enabling you to summarize methodologies or compare assumptions across your ingested studies.

Yes, you need a self-hosted Open Notebook instance with REST API access to use API automation for research chat. This environment handles source processing, vector and full-text search, and optional multi-provider AI configuration to support your workflows.

The best way to organize scattered research materials is creating separate notebooks in Open Notebook. This notebook-based organization groups sources, notes, and chat sessions together, enabling context-aware Q&A and structured literature review management for each research topic.