Documentation

Getting Started

Run Arivu locally, create an account, capture your first source or note, and begin connecting your private knowledge.

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.

Environment Variables

Configure Arivu's server, SQLite database, authentication, optional providers, email, X integration, and CLI endpoint.

Administration & Recovery

Inspect durable processing failures, retry eligible bookmark work safely, and preserve the history needed to diagnose recurring problems.

X Bookmarks Integration

Connect an optional X OAuth application to a self-hosted Arivu instance and sync owned bookmarks into Library.

Browser Extension Setup

Connect the Arivu browser extension to a self-hosted instance without editing its manifest, then capture pages and selected text.

Capture & Library

Capture links, notes, quotes, and files without setup, then browse every saved knowledge type in one filtered Library.

Second Brain Workflow

Capture, understand, remember, and reuse saved sources and notes in Arivu.

Preservation & Sharing

Understand direct and rendered capture evidence, local reader media, preserved copies, public snapshots, and asset-aware backups.

Notes & Links

Write ordinary notes, preserve annotations, create explicit links, and save editable source-learning results.

Reminders & Tasks

Why tasks and reminders were retired, and how your old ones are kept as notes.

AI Assistant

Consent-based source conversations and quizzes while local capture, notes, preview, and search remain provider-free.

Search & Ask

Local full-text search and provider-assisted conversations grounded in passages you inspect before sending.

Knowledge Graph

Explore a secondary, bounded map of explicit and derived relationships across bookmarks, notes, annotations, entities, and concepts.

Collections & Tags

Add optional project groups and cross-cutting labels without making organization a prerequisite for capture.

Insights

Why the standalone Insights dashboard was retired, and where discovery lives now.

Import & Export

Bring bookmarks, feeds, documents, transcripts, and backups into Arivu, then export portable knowledge or restore a full account backup.

Resurfacing & Rediscovery

Bring useful material back through optional Review, then inspect connections in Graph or revisit the original source.

API Reference

Arivu's authenticated REST API for capture, Library, Search, learning sessions, Graph, notes, integrations, and operations.

Keyboard Shortcuts

Use Arivu's command-palette, Library, graph, menu, tab, and dialog keyboard controls.

Command Line Interface

Use the Arivu binary to run the server, log in, capture, list, search, and migrate legacy exports with audience-scoped authentication.