diff --git a/packages/widgets/src/notebook/component.tsx b/packages/widgets/src/notebook/component.tsx
index e8dc77498..b8ef2191b 100644
--- a/packages/widgets/src/notebook/component.tsx
+++ b/packages/widgets/src/notebook/component.tsx
@@ -1,33 +1,38 @@
 "use client";
 
 import dynamic from "next/dynamic";
+import { useEffect, useState } from "react";
 
 import { useScopedI18n } from "@homarr/translation/client";
 
 import { WidgetMobileSummary } from "../common/mobile-summary";
 import type { WidgetComponentProps } from "../definition";
+import { extractNotebookExcerpt } from "./mobile-summary";
 
 const Notebook = dynamic(() => import("./notebook").then((module) => module.Notebook), {
   ssr: false,
 });
 
+interface NotebookMobileSummaryProps {
+  content: string;
+  label: string;
+}
+
+const NotebookMobileSummary = ({ content, label }: NotebookMobileSummaryProps) => {
+  const [excerpt, setExcerpt] = useState("");
+
+  useEffect(() => {
+    setExcerpt(extractNotebookExcerpt(content));
+  }, [content]);
+
+  return <WidgetMobileSummary value={excerpt || "—"} label={label} />;
+};
+
 export default function NotebookWidget(props: WidgetComponentProps<"notebook">) {
   const t = useScopedI18n("widget.notebook");
 
   if (props.displayMode === "mobileSummary") {
-    const excerpt = props.options.content
-      .replace(/<style\b[^>]*>[\s\S]*?<\/style>/gi, " ")
-      .replace(/<script\b[^>]*>[\s\S]*?<\/script>/gi, " ")
-      .replace(/<[^>]+>/g, " ")
-      .replace(/&(?:nbsp|#160);/gi, " ")
-      .replace(/&(?:amp|#38);/gi, "&")
-      .replace(/&(?:lt|#60);/gi, "<")
-      .replace(/&(?:gt|#62);/gi, ">")
-      .replace(/&(?:quot|#34);/gi, '"')
-      .replace(/\s+/g, " ")
-      .trim();
-
-    return <WidgetMobileSummary value={excerpt || "—"} label={t("name")} />;
+    return <NotebookMobileSummary content={props.options.content} label={t("name")} />;
   }
 
   return <Notebook {...props} />;
diff --git a/packages/widgets/src/notebook/mobile-summary.spec.ts b/packages/widgets/src/notebook/mobile-summary.spec.ts
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..992867ba6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/widgets/src/notebook/mobile-summary.spec.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
+import { describe, expect, test } from "vitest";
+
+import { extractNotebookExcerpt } from "./mobile-summary";
+
+describe("extractNotebookExcerpt", () => {
+  test("returns decoded plain text from notebook HTML", () => {
+    expect(extractNotebookExcerpt("<h1>Hello&nbsp;world</h1><p>Fish &amp; chips</p>")).toBe("Hello world Fish & chips");
+  });
+
+  test("removes script and style content including whitespace before closing brackets", () => {
+    const content =
+      '<p>Visible</p><script>alert("hidden")</script ><style>body { display: none; }</style ><p>Still visible</p>';
+
+    expect(extractNotebookExcerpt(content)).toBe("Visible Still visible");
+  });
+
+  test("returns an empty excerpt when there is no visible content", () => {
+    expect(extractNotebookExcerpt("<script>hidden()</script><style>.hidden {}</style>")).toBe("");
+  });
+});
diff --git a/packages/widgets/src/notebook/mobile-summary.ts b/packages/widgets/src/notebook/mobile-summary.ts
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..dc935d3df
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/widgets/src/notebook/mobile-summary.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,15 @@
+export const extractNotebookExcerpt = (content: string) => {
+  const parsedDocument = new DOMParser().parseFromString(content, "text/html");
+  parsedDocument.querySelectorAll("script, style").forEach((element) => {
+    element.remove();
+  });
+
+  const textWalker = parsedDocument.createTreeWalker(parsedDocument.body, NodeFilter.SHOW_TEXT);
+  const textParts: string[] = [];
+
+  while (textWalker.nextNode()) {
+    textParts.push(textWalker.currentNode.textContent ?? "");
+  }
+
+  return textParts.join(" ").replace(/\s+/g, " ").trim();
+};