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Your Knowledge, Yours to Keep

Obsidian and Markdown export, full backup and restore, richer imports, a unified search index, and capture from more places.

July 3, 2026 •
Export Import Data Ownership Self-Hosting

A second brain is only trustworthy if you can walk out with everything in it. This update makes Arivu’s data flow both ways: richer imports on the way in, and real, portable exports on the way out. Along the way, capture got easier and search got a single source of truth.

IN Pocket, Raindrop Linkwarden Browser HTML Arivu JSON URL list ARIVU SQLite on disk OUT JSON backup Obsidian vault Markdown CSV Browser HTML

Export That Actually Leaves

Arivu now exports your collection in the formats you would actually want to keep or move:

  • Full JSON backup of your saved items and their surrounding context.
  • Obsidian vault as a ZIP, with bookmarks and standalone notes written as Markdown files in vault-ready folders.
  • Markdown, CSV, and browser HTML for portability into other tools.

The Obsidian export means your saved knowledge can drop straight into a Markdown vault you already use. No lock-in, no scraping, no manual copy and paste.

What this means for you: Your notes and saves are portable by default. You can back them up, mirror them into another tool, or take them with you.

Backup and Restore, End to End

The JSON backup is not just an archive. You can restore a full backup back into Arivu through the import flow, which remaps everything under your account while preserving the details that matter: summaries, tags and aliases, annotations, linked and standalone notes, saved searches, review history, and where imported items originally came from.

What this means for you: Backups are real backups. You can move an instance, recover from a mistake, or seed a fresh install and keep your history intact.

Richer, Safer Imports

Imports now accept more sources and formats: Pocket, Raindrop, Linkwarden, generic browser bookmark HTML, Arivu JSON, and even a plain list of URLs. Each imported item records where it came from, so you can filter by source later.

Large histories are supported, unsafe URLs are skipped before anything is created, and import jobs show visible progress for fetched, processed, and failed items as they run.

What this means for you: Bringing your existing bookmarks in is less of a leap of faith. You can see it happen and trust that the same safety rules apply.

One Search Index for Everything

Search now runs on a single per-user index that covers both bookmarks and notes, with a typed retrieval path and a quota-protected rebuild option if an index ever needs repair. Saved searches let you keep the filters you use often, and tag management gives you canonical tags plus aliases so messy tag histories collapse into something consistent.

What this means for you: Searching finds your notes and your saves together, and your tags stop fragmenting over time.

Capture From More Places

Capture picked up a few practical upgrades:

  • The installable app now registers a share target, so on a supported device you can share a page straight into Arivu and land on a pre-filled capture screen.
  • The browser extension now saves quick notes, comma-separated tags, and the page title, and offers direct links to the Inbox or the saved bookmark after saving instead of just closing.
  • Self-hosted extension setup requests host permission for your saved origin and registers its token script dynamically, so custom domains work without hand-editing the manifest.

Own your data is easy to say and harder to mean. Real exports, restorable backups, honest imports, and capture from wherever you are: that is what it looks like in practice.