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How to chat with your PDFs and web pages and get cited answers with Open Notebook

Connect a model provider, add sources to a notebook and ask questions answered from your material.

Short answer: Open Models in the sidebar and click Add Configuration for your provider (or a Base URL for Ollama); then Click Test, then add at least one Language model and one Embedding model; Click Auto-assign Defaults. All steps.

  • Research
  • Beginner
  • 20 minutes
  • From the README
  • Any agent

Who it is forA student or analyst with a pile of papers, articles and recordings to make sense of.

The problemReading and cross-referencing dozens of sources by hand takes days, and general chatbots do not cite your files.

The outcomeAnswers grounded in your notebook that cite the sources, notes and insights they used.

What you need first

  • Docker Desktop (macOS, Windows) or Docker Engine with the Compose plugin (Linux)
  • An API key from an AI provider, or a local model server such as Ollama
  • At least one language model and one embedding model configured in the UI

Steps

  1. Open Models in the sidebar and click Add Configuration for your provider (or a Base URL for Ollama)
  2. Click Test, then add at least one Language model and one Embedding model
  3. Click Auto-assign Defaults
  4. Create a notebook, add PDFs, videos, audio or web pages, and start chatting

Prompt for your agent

In lfnovo/open-notebook, connect <provider or Ollama>, create a notebook for <topic>, add <sources>, and ask <question>. Show which sources each answer cites.

Caveat. This card is written from the lfnovo/open-notebook README, not from a test run by Deduped. Before you start, make sure you have Docker Desktop or Docker Engine with the Compose plugin. Check the repo for newer instructions before you rely on these steps.

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