Keep the Passage, Not Just the Page

Saving a page answers one question: where did you find it? Research usually needs a second answer: what, exactly, mattered?

Arivu now lets you select a passage while reading, capture it as an annotation, and add your own context before the thought disappears. The quote stays attached to its source, so a useful sentence does not become an orphaned fragment in a separate notes app.

Capture While the Context Is Fresh

In Arivu’s reader, select the text that matters and open the annotation composer. The selected passage is already there. Save the quote on its own, or add a note explaining why it matters, what it challenges, or where you expect to use it.

That small change removes a familiar interruption. You no longer need to copy text, switch views, find the matching bookmark, and reconstruct what you were thinking. The source and interpretation are captured together at the point of reading.

This is useful for more than formal research. A developer can keep the exact paragraph that explains an edge case. A writer can preserve a line of evidence beside an argument. An analyst can record why one claim should be checked against another source. A meeting note can link back to the passage that prompted a decision.

Annotations remain part of the same workflow as notes, links, research objects, tasks, and reminders. You can find them later through the saved source rather than maintaining another disconnected highlight archive. See Notes, Links & Research Objects for the practical workflow.

Bring the Composer to External Pages

Sometimes you want to annotate before saving a page or opening it in Arivu’s reader. The browser extension can now provide an annotation overlay on external pages. This mode is explicitly opt-in. You choose whether to grant the extension access to the sites where you want it available.

Once enabled for a page, select a passage and use the composer to save the quote, with or without your interpretation. Arivu records it against that page’s URL. The overlay does not run on Arivu’s own pages, where the built-in reader handles annotation directly.

The permission boundary is intentional. External-page annotation is convenient, but it should not quietly expand where an extension can read page content. If you prefer not to enable it, ordinary bookmark capture and manual annotations remain available.

Source jumps return you to the saved URL and help recover the surrounding context. Pages can change their text, layout, or anchors after capture, so a jump cannot guarantee the original selection will always appear in the same position. The quote preserved in Arivu remains the stable record.

From Highlight to Working Knowledge

A highlight is most valuable when it can participate in later work. Because the annotation remains source-bound, you can:

• search for a remembered phrase and recover its page
• revisit the source before relying on the quote
• connect the source to a note or research object
• use the passage while preparing a cited answer
• attach a task or reminder when the passage creates follow-up work

This is not an attempt to capture every sentence you read. It is a faster way to preserve the few passages that change your understanding or deserve action. The Second Brain Workflow gives those captures a path through Inbox, Focus, and Review.

AI is not required for annotation capture. Quotes, notes, links, search, and the wider workflow remain useful without a model provider. When a provider is configured, generated summaries or cited synthesis can enrich the material, but your selected passage and your own interpretation stay the primary record.

Other Changes

• Readable article extraction gives saved pages a cleaner reading surface when the source permits it.
• Structured summaries now have a deterministic fallback when no provider is configured or provider output is unavailable.
• Existing highlights and tags are preserved as saved content moves through processing.
• Analytics and the X connection callback have been restored so those workflows complete as expected.
• Interface copy and visual hierarchy now make capture state and next actions clearer.

Saving the page preserves an address. Keeping the passage preserves the reason you cared.

Explore the full feature map or start with the documentation.