Second Brain Workflow
Capture, understand, remember, and reuse saved sources and notes in Arivu.
Capture, understand, remember, and reuse. Start with a source or note, without choosing a folder or configuring AI.
Capture
Use the global Capture action for a link, note, quote, or file. Browser extension, PWA share target, and CLI capture remain available. Imported documents and transcripts become searchable notes instead of entering a separate media library.
New material appears in Library. One-time feed imports can seed the Library, while ongoing RSS and Atom subscriptions continue sending accepted entries through the same pipeline.
Understand
Open a bookmark or note to add explicit links and inspect backlinks. Those user-created links are canonical and durable.
Arivu can also derive source, shared-concept, shared-entity, and semantic-similarity relationships. Derived relationships show provenance and confidence, can be rebuilt, and never replace your explicit links. Semantic similarity appears only when embeddings exist.
Find the Source Again
Library leads with bookmarks, ordinary notes, and annotations. Search retrieves matching material locally. Graph, under More, shows a bounded recent or focused neighborhood rather than loading an unreadable global network.
Remember and Reuse
Review offers optional resurfacing. From /learn, you can inspect up to 16 passages from as many as eight sources, then consent to send them to the configured provider for a conversation or a three-question quiz. Search and source preview work without AI; generation does not.
Without a Model Provider
Arivu still captures and sanitizes pages, extracts local text, indexes full text, stores notes and links, projects graph relationships, and handles import, export, and backup. Board, Focus, tasks, reminders, stage, priority, next action, typed objects, calendar import, and standalone Insights are retired.