Capture
Save links, notes, quotes, and files without choosing a taxonomy first.
Product
Knowledge work that stays connected.
Arivu brings capture, writing, retrieval, connections, and reflection into one self-hosted workspace. Start simply, then use deeper tools when the material calls for them.
From a passing thought to lasting understanding.
Connect
Link ideas deliberately and inspect locally derived relationships.
Discover
Use full-text search or narrow the graph around a question.
Learn
Revisit useful material and see patterns backed by your sources.
Five clear places for the work.
Each view answers a different question. Capture and Search / Ask remain global, so collecting or finding knowledge never depends on where you are.
Home
What deserves attention today? Keep Pulse, Focus, Review, and Board available through one persistent switcher.
Library
What have I kept? Browse saved and authored material by default, then switch to generated concepts and entities when you want the derived view.
Notes
What am I thinking? Write standalone or daily notes, track tasks and reminders, and create explicit links back to sources.
Graph
How does this connect? Focus a bounded graph, inspect typed edges with provenance and confidence, or use the accessible list view.
Insights
What is changing over time? Explore evidence-backed themes, recurring connections, forgotten value, knowledge gaps, and serendipitous links.
Notes belong beside the knowledge they shape.
Write a quick thought, keep a daily record, or develop an idea over time. Backlinks and explicit connections keep the source material within reach.
Learn about NotesSearch, ask, and explore without hiding the evidence.
Full-text search works locally. Ask returns cited answers from saved material. Graph relationships and Insights expose their sources, confidence, and scope.
Search
Find saved text directly without requiring embeddings or an external provider.
Ask
Build an answer from your own material and keep the supporting sources visible.
Optional similarity
When embeddings are configured and available, use them as another relationship signal rather than a universal promise.
Preserve and share with explicit boundaries.
Direct capture records attempts, source evidence, and a bounded source response. Complete background capture can add rendered reader content, local images, screenshots, PDFs, and offline HTML without exposing a browser profile.
Strongest safe reader
Direct evidence stays useful immediately, while rendered evidence can improve weak extraction without letting a failed or challenged page replace the last good copy.
Deliberate snapshots
Publish a point-in-time secret-link copy without private notes, tags, annotations, or graph connections. Authenticated APIs can include selected screenshot or PDF evidence.
Complete host backups
Installer backups pair the SQLite snapshot with the adjacent asset store and a manifest that restore verifies.
A capable workspace without a complicated stack.
The core app is a single Go binary with SQLite. Use the guided Linux VPS installer to manage it and, on supported hosts, the isolated native capture runtime. Back up the database and adjacent assets together, and add a model provider only if its enrichment is useful to you.
Multiple capture paths
Use the web app, browser extension, share target, imports, or CLI.
Supporting workflows
Inbox, Focus, Review, Board, tasks, reminders, and administration stay available without crowding the main navigation.
Import and export
Move bookmarks and notes through common formats, and keep regular backups.
Provider choice
Configure supported hosted or compatible providers at runtime, or use Arivu without one.