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.
The first screen of a second brain matters.
If it opens to a pile of links, it teaches you that saving is the job. If it opens to a search box, it teaches you that remembering the right query is the job. But the real job is simpler and harder: know what needs attention today.
So Arivu now treats Today as the home base.
The Daily Cockpit
Today brings the working parts of Arivu into one place:
- a daily note for the context of the day
- Inbox items that still need a decision
- Focus items with tasks and reminders
- Review prompts that deserve another look
- recent decisions and meetings so commitments stay close to the day
- recent bookmarks, documents, and notes so the trail stays visible
This is not a dashboard full of vanity stats. It is an operating view. It shows the things that can move.
The newer Today board keeps that same idea in a more explicit shape: Inbox, Working, Review, recent decisions, and recent meetings. It is still a cockpit, not an infinite canvas.
Why This Changes the Feel
The old bookmark-manager habit starts with storage. You save something, hope future you remembers it, and maybe search later.
Today starts with motion. What came in? What is open? What is due? What should come back? What did I just touch?
That shift matters because a second brain is not only an archive. It is a place to continue work.
What this means for you: The app opens around your current day instead of around an undifferentiated library.
Daily Notes Belong Beside Sources
Some thoughts do not start as web pages. A meeting note, a hunch, a question, a decision, a plan for tomorrow. Those should not have to live in another app just because they are not URLs.
The daily note gives those thoughts a place inside the same self-hosted workspace as your saved sources. A daily note can sit next to Inbox, Focus, and Review because it is part of the same loop.
Fast Movement Matters
Today also makes keyboard-first movement more important. The command palette gives you a fast path across bookmarks, notes, collections, and actions. Quick Add still saves from the dashboard. The point is to reduce the distance between noticing something and putting it in the right place.
What this means for you: Capture stays fast, but the app no longer leaves the result as a loose end.
A Better Default
Arivu is still searchable. It still captures links, documents, notes, and research objects. It still supports the Knowledge Graph, imports, exports, browser capture, and the CLI.
But Today changes the default question from “what did I save?” to “what needs my attention now?”
That is a healthier starting point for a second brain.