Chronicle
A dated record of how Arivu is becoming a more focused, connected, and durable second brain.
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Arivu 1.8.2
A security update for complete capture: its runtime now refuses certificates from the compromised eMudhra keys and picks up the latest Node.js security fixes.
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Arivu 1.8.1
A maintenance release: current runtimes underneath, security fixes, and refusal of certificates from this week's compromised eMudhra keys.
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A new look for Arivu
Warmer paper surfaces, softer cards, serif headings, and a calmer sign-in screen. Where things are and how they work has not changed.
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Arivu 1.8.0
A new look for the whole app, a fix for the public share page, and updated dependencies and security fixes.
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Arivu 1.7.0
A smaller, more focused Arivu with source conversations, optional quizzes, faster large libraries, and updated dependencies.
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Ask your sources, then test your recall
Chat with chosen passages, check the exact quotes behind each answer, save what helps, or take an optional three-question quiz.
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Fewer tools, more time with your sources
Arivu now puts sources, notes, and search first, and retires the task and planning tools. Your old writing is kept as notes.
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Less waiting on big libraries
Notes, focused Graph, search rebuilds, and exports got faster this week. Here are the numbers, and where nothing changed.
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A Clearer Workspace From Sign-In to Insights
Arivu now pairs its white-rail interface with stronger contrast, calmer Library controls, clearer Graph targets, and useful next steps.
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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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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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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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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.
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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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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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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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A Warmer, Lighter Arivu
Arivu now uses a calm, light-only visual system designed around reading, writing, and connected knowledge.
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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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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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Notes, Right Where They Belong
Notes now sit in Arivu's primary navigation as a core writing and connection workspace.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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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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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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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Production Hardening: Security, Speed, and Structure
Stronger authentication defenses, faster database queries, and a more maintainable architecture.
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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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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.
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Your Brain, Mapped
Arivu now sees the invisible threads between everything you save.
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We're Live
Arivu gets a home - a brutalist marketing site that means business.
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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.
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