Second Brain Workflow
Use Arivu's Capture, Connect, Discover, and Learn loop to turn saved sources and notes into knowledge you can revisit.
Arivu is organized around one loop: Capture -> Connect -> Discover -> Learn. You can begin without choosing a taxonomy or configuring AI, then add structure as your knowledge base grows.
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. Inbox remains a filtered Library view for users who want to assign a stage, importance, or next action. One-time feed imports can seed the Library, while ongoing RSS and Atom subscriptions continue sending accepted entries through the same pipeline.
Connect
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.
Discover
Library leads with bookmarks, notes, daily notes, annotations, and knowledge objects in one filtered content view. Generated entities and concepts remain available in a separate derived view and in Graph. Search / Ask retrieves matching material or answers a question using citations from your own saved content. Graph shows a bounded recent or focused neighborhood rather than loading an unreadable global network.
Learn
Insights detects emerging themes, recurring connections, forgotten value, knowledge gaps, and serendipitous connections from local evidence. Each result explains why it appeared, cites supporting items, and accepts Useful, Not useful, Snooze, or Dismiss feedback.
Home keeps Pulse, Focus, Review, and Board in a persistent switcher. Focus applies work filters, Review exposes denser evidence and follow-up forms, and Board presents five responsive workflow lanes. Tasks and reminders support the knowledge workflow without becoming the product’s main structure.
Without a Model Provider
Arivu still captures and sanitizes pages, extracts local text, indexes full text, stores notes and links, projects non-semantic graph relationships, generates deterministic Insights, and handles import, export, and backup. Optional providers can improve summaries, embeddings, explanations, and synthesis.