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Open Notebook is an open-source, privacy-centric alternative to Google NotebookLM. It empowers users with complete data sovereignty through self-hosted deployment and support for 18+ AI providers, including local LLMs via Ollama. By integrating multi-modal content like PDFs, videos, and web pages using vector search, it creates a context-aware research environment. Key features include advanced multi-speaker podcast generation, full REST API access, and native support for reasoning models like DeepSeek-R1, offering a highly customizable and secure knowledge management workflow.