N-Forge

N-Forge is a native notebook at /n-forge — the NotebookLM idea fully inside Erebros, on any model (Claude / Grok / Kimi / Antigravity / local). Build a notebook from your own sources and get answers strictly from those sources, each with [n] citations.

N-Forge — Erebros

Purpose

Grounded question-answering over documents you supply. Retrieval is native keyword matching (no vector DB); the answer always comes back in the question’s language. Ask runs as a background task, so you can keep working, and there is also a keyword Search over sources.

Adding sources

Four ways to add sources:

URL — Erebros fetches and extracts the page (better with Firecrawl).
Pasted text.
Tavily web search — needs TAVILY_API_KEY.
Import from Google NotebookLM.

Up to 300 sources per notebook.

Import a whole Google notebook

“Import everything” pulls a Google notebook in one click: its source index, saved notes and text artifacts (reports, briefings, study guides) become answerable content, and generated media downloads into N-Forge/<notebook>/media/:

audio → MP3
video → MP4
slide deck → PDF + PPTX
infographic → PNG
mind-map → JSON
data-table → CSV
quiz / flashcards

Import runs in the background and auto-renames to the Google title.

Notebooks library

The Notebooks library lists your notebooks. Click a source to view / edit it in-app; the Media / files section plays audio, video and images and renders reports inline.

Studio

Turn a notebook’s sources into media, on any model:

Podcast — two-host narrated audio via ElevenLabs.
Presentation — Markdown to PPTX / PDF, rendered by marp-cli (provisioned by default). Falls back to a Marp .md if marp-cli is unavailable.
Interactive page.
Video.
Course.
Infographic.

Pick a generator card, optionally refine, and the result lands in the notebook’s media/ folder. Apart from Presentation, the generators are model-only.

Setup and dependencies

notebooklm-py — full source text and media import (venv ~/.erebros/nblm/venv, provisioned by scripts/setup-nblm.sh or scripts/install-autostart.sh). If the backend is absent, N-Forge falls back to a name-only reader (nothing breaks).
notebooklm-mcp — holds the Google NotebookLM sign-in (npm i -g notebooklm-mcp). Auth is bridged automatically from your existing Notebook (/notebook) login — no second sign-in.
patchright Chromium (bundled) — Google sign-in and notebook import; set NOTEBOOKLM_BROWSER_CHANNEL=chromium (no Google Chrome needed).
@marp-team/marp-cli — Studio Presentation export (provisioned by default via scripts/setup-nforge-studio.sh); renders through your existing Chromium (CHROME_PATH).
TAVILY_API_KEY — for the Tavily web-search source.
ELEVENLABS_API_KEY — for the Studio Podcast generator.

Where output goes

Everything saves to the vault under N-Forge/<notebook>/: notebook.json, sources/*.md, and media/.

Tips

Answers are constrained to your sources — if a fact is not in a source, N-Forge will not invent it; add the source and re-ask.
Ask and import both run in the background, so you can queue a large import and keep working.