Bowerbird – Open-source NotebookLM for any model, with checked quotes
Comments
Ranked by a public rubric, not by votes: what a comment adds counts, not who wrote it. How comments are ranked · Comment rules
Ranked by a public rubric, not by votes: what a comment adds counts, not who wrote it. How comments are ranked · Comment rules
Summary
Bowerbird is an open-source, local-first alternative to Google's NotebookLM that lets users ask questions over their own PDFs, web pages, videos and recordings, using any model they choose. Notebooks are plain folders on disk, and search, OCR and transcription run locally.