Search & Ask
Retrieve saved bookmarks and notes with full-text search, or ask a cited question grounded only in your own Arivu content.
Search / Ask is globally available and has the canonical route /search. It supports two related jobs: finding saved material and synthesizing a cited answer from it.
Search Your Saved Knowledge
Search retrieves owned bookmarks and notes with snippets and source links. Use text and structured filters to narrow the result set. Full-text retrieval is local and does not require a model provider or embeddings.
Semantic-similarity relationships are separate from full-text search. They appear in connected surfaces only when embeddings exist, while ordinary retrieval continues without them.
Ask With Citations
Ask assembles an answer from content in your Arivu account. Citations link back to the saved bookmarks and notes used as evidence, so you can inspect the source rather than accepting unsupported prose. The answer endpoint does not require or call a model provider.
Optional providers can improve summaries and other enrichment stored with saved material. Search, cited answers, and the rest of Arivu’s deterministic knowledge workflow remain available without one.
Reviewable Assistant Actions
The legacy Assistant context remains compatible at /assistant, which opens Search / Ask with action review. Suggested mutations are inert proposals until you approve them. Rejecting a proposal leaves your knowledge unchanged.
API Routes
| Method | Endpoint | Purpose |
|---|---|---|
GET |
/api/search/items |
Unified bookmark and note retrieval |
GET |
/api/search/answer |
Cited answer from saved content |
POST |
/api/search/rebuild |
Rebuild the maintained search index |
See API Reference for authentication and related routes.