Capture
Keep a link, note, quote, or file, with retained capture history and source evidence.
Keep the source. Build your understanding.
Save pages and notes in Arivu on your own server. Read the original text, ask about chosen passages, and keep cited answers beside your own writing.
September 2026 preview: source chat, quizzes, and the simpler workspace are in open pull requests, not the current installer release.
Capture. Understand. Remember. Reuse.
Save a source without folders or AI setup. Choose how to use it when you return.
Understand
Read preserved text, then preview the passages an AI conversation can use.
Remember
Try three source-based questions when you want practice. No study queue.
Reuse
Save an answer as an editable note, with its quoted evidence and source links.
Four places. No planning dashboard.
Home, Library, Notes, and Search keep saved material close. Review and Graph remain under More when you need them.
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Return to recent sources, notes, and material worth revisiting.
Library
Browse saved and authored material first, then open generated concepts and entities.
Notes
Write in your own words and keep links back to the source.
Search
Find saved text locally. Open Ask to choose passages for a conversation.
Capture quickly. Find it again with context.
Search runs locally. Chat and quizzes use a configured AI provider only after you preview the passages and agree to send them. Self-hosted storage does not mean local AI.
Capture and Library guide
Keep evidence private, or publish a deliberate snapshot.
Reader progress, capture history, local article images, and retained source artifacts help you return to research. Optional nested collections and ongoing RSS or Atom subscriptions add structure without making it a capture prerequisite.
Complete background capture
Fresh installer deployments can preserve rendered evidence, local images, screenshots, and offline HTML, with a core-only opt-out.
Point-in-time sharing
Create a secret-link copy that excludes private workspace fields, then list, expire, or revoke it.
Asset-aware recovery
Installer backups keep SQLite and the adjacent asset store together, with a manifest that restore verifies.
Search and Ask
Find saved text locally, or ask for a cited answer from material you already keep.
Straightforward to run. Straightforward to leave.
The core Arivu app ships as one Go binary backed by SQLite. The guided installer can also manage an isolated native capture runtime, while imports, exports, and backups keep your knowledge portable.
See data portabilityUseful without AI
Capture, reading, notes, links, full-text search, and Graph work without a provider.
Optional enrichment
Add a compatible provider for improved summaries, embeddings, explanations, or synthesis when you want them.
Portable by design
Keep a comprehensible SQLite database, create backups, and move material through common import and export formats.
Keep your knowledge on a server you control.
Arivu is open source, self-hosted, and useful before you connect a model provider.
Read the self-hosting guide