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KnowNote

A local-first AI knowledge base & NotebookLM alternative built with Electron. More convenient, more lightweight, and understands you better!

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Create a personal knowledge base that allows you to interact with your documents intelligently and privately.

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A local-first AI knowledge base & NotebookLM alternative built with Electron. More convenient, more lightweight, and understands you better!

KnowNote has 1.1k stars on GitHub. It has been forked 143 times. KnowNote is written mainly in TypeScript. It has been in active development since 2025. KnowNote is available under the GPL-3.0 license. Its main topics are ai, deep-learning, deepseek, dl.

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What is KnowNote?

A local-first AI knowledge base & NotebookLM alternative built with Electron. More convenient, more lightweight, and understands you better!

Is KnowNote open source?

KnowNote is an open-source project. It is released under the GPL-3.0 license.

Is KnowNote free?

Yes. KnowNote is free and open source — you can use, modify and self-host it. Its GPL-3.0 license is copyleft: if you distribute a modified version, it must remain under the same license.

What license does KnowNote use?

KnowNote is available under the GPL-3.0 license.

What language is KnowNote written in?

KnowNote is written mainly in TypeScript.

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