Getting Started

1. Download and activate

1. Download Archivist from the download page.
2. Open the app and enter your license key to activate.
3. Your data stays local — no account creation required.

2. Import evidence

• Use the browser extension to capture web pages
• Drop files into a watched folder for automatic ingestion
• Import AI conversation exports (Claude, ChatGPT) directly
• Supported formats: HTML, MHTML, WARC, PDF, Markdown, text, JSON

3. Investigate

• Triage evidence from your inbox into cases
• Map entities (people, organizations, locations) and relationships
• Annotate sources with notes, tags, flags, and highlights
• Correlate across documents by entity, time, or keyword

4. Export

Build tamper-evident evidence packages with chain of custody, integrity verification, PDF reports, and a standalone verifier.

python3 -m investigator export <case_id> --output ./evidence/

Optional: Local semantic search

Install Ollama for semantic search capabilities beyond keyword matching.

ollama pull nomic-embed-text