Blinko is an open-source, AI-powered card note-taking tool designed for capturing fleeting thoughts. It features AI-driven RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) for natural language note retrieval. Focused on data ownership, it supports self-hosting for complete privacy. Built with a lightweight Tauri architecture, it offers high performance and Markdown support across web, desktop, and mobile platforms.
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.