Your Self-Hosted
Second Brain
Features
Today Cockpit
Start from your daily note, Inbox, Focus, Review, and recent activity. Your saved knowledge has a daily operating view, including recent decisions and meetings.
Daily Home BaseSecond Brain Workflow
A real working loop: capture anything, triage it in your Inbox, work from Focus, and let Review bring back what matters.
Capture, Inbox, Focus, ReviewAI Assistant
The assistant proposes, you approve. Every action is a reviewable draft that runs only with your say-so. Answers are cited from your own saves.
Propose, Review, ApproveSimpler Self-Hosting
Run Arivu as a Go application with embedded frontend assets and SQLite persistence. Fewer services, fewer moving parts.
Go + SQLiteNotes and Links
Create standalone notes, quote annotations, explicit links, and backlinks so source context and your own thinking stay connected.
First-Class NotesResearch Objects
Turn recurring material into projects, people, books, meetings, decisions, and research threads with source context attached.
Structured ResearchCited Answers
Ask questions against your saved sources and notes, then follow citations back to the items that supported the answer.
Answers With ReceiptsKnowledge Graph
Discover connections between bookmarks, notes, and research objects. Trace topics as they evolve across your saved knowledge.
Graph and EvolutionPortable Data
Import bookmarks, feeds, documents, transcripts, OCR text, calendar events, and backups. Export to JSON, Markdown, CSV, browser HTML, and Obsidian ZIP.
No Lock-InReview Feedback
Review brings back older, due, important, or actionable items. Mark useful, not useful, snooze longer, or never resurface.
Recall LoopTerminal Workflow
Save, search, import, preview, and run a local Arivu stack from the new command-line interface.
arivu CLI
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