Getting Started
Run Arivu locally, create an account, capture your first source or note, and begin connecting your private knowledge.
Open guideInstall, configure, and learn
Documentation
Deploy Arivu, capture knowledge, connect notes and sources, explore your Library and Graph, and learn from evidence-backed Insights.
Getting Started
Deployment
Self-Hosting Arivu
Install Arivu on a Linux VPS with the first-party installer, shared-proxy planning, SQLite backups, health-checked restore, and transactional upgrades.
Open guideEnvironment Variables
Configure Arivu's server, SQLite database, authentication, optional providers, email, X integration, and CLI endpoint.
Open guideAdministration & Recovery
Inspect durable processing failures, retry eligible bookmark work safely, and preserve the history needed to diagnose recurring problems.
Open guideIntegrations
X Bookmarks Integration
Connect an optional X OAuth application to a self-hosted Arivu instance and sync owned bookmarks into Library.
Open guideBrowser Extension Setup
Connect the Arivu browser extension to a self-hosted instance without editing its manifest, then capture pages and selected text.
Open guideFeatures
Capture & Library
Capture links, notes, quotes, and files without setup, then browse every saved knowledge type in one filtered Library.
Open guideSecond Brain Workflow
Use Arivu's Capture, Connect, Discover, and Learn loop to turn saved sources and notes into knowledge you can revisit.
Open guidePreservation & Sharing
Understand direct and rendered capture evidence, local reader media, preserved copies, public snapshots, and asset-aware backups.
Open guideNotes, Links & Research Objects
Write standalone notes, preserve annotations, create explicit links, and add typed research context without leaving your knowledge workspace.
Open guideReminders & Tasks
Keep small open loops attached to bookmarks and notes with undated tasks, scheduled reminders, recurrence, and optional email.
Open guideAI Assistant
Use deterministic cited answers, optional model-provider enrichment, and reviewable actions while Arivu's core knowledge workflow stays useful without AI.
Open guideSearch & Ask
Retrieve saved bookmarks and notes with full-text search, or ask a cited question grounded only in your own Arivu content.
Open guideKnowledge Graph & Topic Evolution
Explore a bounded, accessible map of explicit and derived relationships across bookmarks, notes, annotations, objects, entities, and concepts.
Open guideCollections & Tags
Add optional project groups and cross-cutting labels without making organization a prerequisite for capture.
Open guideInsights
Learn from deterministic, evidence-backed patterns across your saved knowledge, with provenance, confidence, and private feedback.
Open guideImport & Export
Bring bookmarks, feeds, documents, transcripts, calendars, and backups into Arivu, then export portable knowledge or restore a full account backup.
Open guideResurfacing & Rediscovery
Bring useful material back with understandable reasons through Home, Review, memories, and evidence-backed Insights.
Open guideReference
API Reference
Overview of Arivu's authenticated REST API for owned capture, Library, Search, Graph, Insights, notes, integrations, and operations.
Open guideKeyboard Shortcuts
Use Arivu's verified command-palette, Inbox-triage, graph, menu, tab, and dialog keyboard controls.
Open guideCommand Line Interface
Use the Arivu binary to run the server, log in, capture, list, search, and migrate legacy exports with audience-scoped authentication.
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