

Ariv
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Your notes, always findable. Capture everything. Maintain nothing. Auto-tagging, smart search, zero organization required.
Cost / License
- Free
- Proprietary
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
Features
- Works Offline
- No registration required
- Ad-free
- Sits in the MenuBar
- Knowledge base
- Graph view
- Knowledge Management
- Tagging
- Checklists
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What is Ariv?
Capture everything. Maintain nothing. You will not maintain your system - and the tool should be fine with that. No folders. No tags. No upkeep. Just think.
The Lifecycle of an Idea
Notes naturally flow between states based on how you use them. No sorting. No filing. No decisions.
-Inbox: Quick captures and unprocessed thoughts land here first. Process them when you're ready or let them sit safely until they're needed.
- Active: What you're working on right now. Recently edited notes are front and center. Once done, they automatically drift away.
- Idle: The long-term memory. Completed tasks and old notes go idle but remain searchable and linkable forever.
Your notes follow a natural flow. Ariv matches it. No effort required.
- A thought arrives. Anywhere, anytime. One shortcut. Captured.
- You're working. Deep in a project visibility. Active notes stay in front.
- You finish something.Move on to what's next. It fades on its own.
- You need it later. Could be weeks or months. Search + auto-tags find it.
Your brain, but better
Features designed to keep you in flow, not managing files.
- Quick Capture: A global hotkey summons a floating overlay. Jot a thought, append to a note, or create new. Gone before you lose your train of thought.
- Daily Notes: A fresh page every day with automatic date headings and task sections. Tags generate as you write. Just open today's note and start.
- Auto-Tagging: Tags come from your words, not your effort. Ariv reads your notes and extracts tags from content, headings, and vault-wide patterns.
- Ask Brain: Chat with your knowledge base. Surface forgotten connections, find any note, and get answers from your own brain.
- Tasks live inside your notes: Write a checkbox in any note and Ariv picks it up. All your tasks surface on the dashboard - no separate app, no context switching. Check them off from anywhere.
- A thought arrives. Capture it. Done: No deciding where it goes, which folder, which tag. A global hotkey summons Quick Capture as a floating overlay. Jot a thought, append to an existing note, or create a new one. It's gone before you lose your train of thought.


