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Your Library Puts Your Material First
Arivu now leads Library with pages, notes, annotations, and objects you saved or wrote, while keeping generated concepts and entities in a separate view.
A record of what changed
Chronicle
A dated record of how Arivu is becoming a more focused, connected, and durable second brain.
July 2026
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Processing Failures Have a Recovery Path
Arivu administrators can now inspect durable job and summary failures, retry eligible work safely, and keep the original history for diagnosis.
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Keyboard Paths Are Easier to Discover
Arivu restores quick keyboard paths for capture, search, navigation, printing, and visible Library movement, with an in-app shortcut guide.
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Complete Pages, Preserved Quietly
Arivu now combines direct and isolated rendered capture, keeps article images locally, and presents useful preserved copies without opening a browser tab.
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Share the Source, Not Your Private Workspace
Arivu now publishes revocable, point-in-time secret-link snapshots while keeping private notes and relationships out of the public copy.
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A Bookmark Can Keep More of the Evidence
Arivu now retains capture history and source artifacts, with bounded screenshot and PDF preservation when an operator enables it.
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When Arivu Does Not Have Enough Evidence, It Says Less
Arivu now keeps generated knowledge bounded by available evidence and excludes unsupported derived material from analytical surfaces.
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Your Second Brain, Your Model Provider
Choose hosted, local, or compatible model providers at runtime while keeping Arivu useful without AI.
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The Website Caught Up
Arivu's marketing site now reflects the focused product, current guides, and warm light-only application design.
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Notes, Right Where They Belong
Notes now sit in Arivu's primary navigation as a core writing and connection workspace.
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Keep the Passage, Not Just the Page
Capture the exact passage that matters, add your interpretation, and keep both connected to the source.
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Arivu Is About Connected Knowledge Now
Arivu now leads with a simple loop: capture material, connect it, discover what relates, and learn from evidence you own.
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A Warmer, Lighter Arivu
Arivu now uses a calm, light-only visual system designed around reading, writing, and connected knowledge.
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Safer Self-Hosting, Less Guesswork
Arivu now has a first-party installer for planning, installing, backing up, restoring, upgrading, and reconfiguring a self-hosted Go and SQLite instance.
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Today Is the New Home Base
Arivu now opens around the day: a daily note, Inbox, Focus, Review, recent decisions, recent meetings, and recent activity in one self-hosted cockpit.
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Review Learns What Matters
Arivu's Review loop now explains why items return and uses recall feedback to keep resurfacing useful, not noisy.
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Research Has More Shape Now
Arivu now turns notes and sources into typed research objects, imports documents and transcripts as searchable notes, keeps recent knowledge readable offline, and preserves more structure in backups.
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An AI Assistant You Can Actually Trust
Arivu's assistant proposes, you approve. Nothing runs without your say-so. Plus cited answers from your own saves and useful results even with no AI key at all.
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From Saved Links to a Real Second Brain
Arivu now has a full working loop: capture anything, triage it in your Inbox, work from Focus, and let Review bring back what matters. Plus standalone notes, links, tasks, and reminders.
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Your Knowledge, Yours to Keep
Obsidian and Markdown export, full backup and restore, document imports, a unified search index, and capture from more places.
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Quieter Admin, Stronger Guarantees
A native admin dashboard, runtime provider settings, an audit trail, and a smaller-surface security pass for self-hosted Arivu.
June 2026
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A Smoother Browser UI
Arivu's embedded browser interface is calmer, easier to recover from, and faster on repeat visits.
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Arivu Is Simpler to Self-Host Now
Arivu now runs as a low-dependency Go application with embedded frontend assets, SQLite persistence, and fewer services to operate.
May 2026
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Arivu From the Terminal
The new Arivu CLI brings saving, search, imports, analytics, local stack control, and graph exploration into a terminal-first workflow.
March 2026
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Automated Security, Testing, and Code Quality
Dependabot, CodeQL, CI pipelines, frontend tests, and linting - Arivu now catches problems before they ship.
February 2026
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Arivu Is Now Open Source
The full application is now available under the MIT license, with a dedicated self-hosted deployment, a documentation hub, and runtime configuration - so you can run Arivu on your own infrastructure.
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Your X Bookmarks, Finally Useful
Connect your X account to Arivu and turn scattered tweet bookmarks into searchable, AI-enriched knowledge.
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Deep Modularization, Reliability Engineering, and Admin Tools
A cleaner architecture, smarter error recovery, and controlled early access - Arivu's foundation for what comes next.
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Search That Thinks, Summaries That Matter
BM25 ranking, RRF fusion, and executive summaries transform how you find and understand bookmarks.
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Production Hardening: Security, Speed, and Structure
Stronger authentication defenses, faster database queries, and a more maintainable architecture.
January 2026
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First Impressions, Perfected
A complete onboarding system that guides you from signup to power user.
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Your Bookmarks Remember You
Memory Jogger resurfaces forgotten gems from your collection, right when you need them.
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Faster Everything
Major infrastructure upgrade cuts load times and improves reliability across the board.
December 2025
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Fortified & Fresh
Security hardening meets aging indicators, your bookmarks stay safe and never forgotten.
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Bring Your Bookmarks
Import from anywhere - HTML, CSV, or plain text - with 5x faster AI processing.