diff --git a/packages/widgets/src/notebook/component.tsx b/packages/widgets/src/notebook/component.tsx
index b8ef2191b..e8dc77498 100644
--- a/packages/widgets/src/notebook/component.tsx
+++ b/packages/widgets/src/notebook/component.tsx
@@ -1,38 +1,33 @@
 "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") {
-    return <NotebookMobileSummary content={props.options.content} label={t("name")} />;
+    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 <Notebook {...props} />;
diff --git a/packages/widgets/src/notebook/mobile-summary.spec.ts b/packages/widgets/src/notebook/mobile-summary.spec.ts
deleted file mode 100644
index 992867ba6..000000000
--- a/packages/widgets/src/notebook/mobile-summary.spec.ts
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,20 +0,0 @@
-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
deleted file mode 100644
index dc935d3df..000000000
--- a/packages/widgets/src/notebook/mobile-summary.ts
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,15 +0,0 @@
-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();
-};