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 core archive work runs on your machine; 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 evidence packages with chain-of-custody notes, 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