In development · Early access 2026
A workspace where your past ideas resurface, your thinking develops, and everything you create can build on what came before.
Most teams that leave never reach a first clear result. In your March notes, 7 of 9 teams that left stopped before they finished setup.
The value appears too late. Show one result in the first session.
From chat "Why do teams leave?" · edited now
Goal: every new team sees one clear result in the first session.
Why Scrivel
They are spread across many tools and many models. A tool can shut down, change its terms or close your account. Then that work is gone.
Scrivel keeps a copy of all of it, in one place that you control.
01 · Own your work
Scrivel keeps its own copy of everything you make with AI. You choose where that copy lives, and which model reads it. You can take all of it with you at any time.
Scrivel keeps a copy of every item. Each item records its source and its date.
| Source | Type | Items | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| CClaude | AI chats | 1,284 | Synced 2 min ago |
| GChatGPT | AI chats | 912 | Synced 5 min ago |
| GGemini | AI chats | 140 | Syncing 64% |
| DGoogle Drive | Cloud storage | 87 | Synced 1 h ago |
| NNotion | Work tools | 312 | Synced 1 h ago |
| SSlack | Work tools | — | Connect |
The work you make with AI is spread across many tools and models. If you lose a tool, you can lose that work. Scrivel calls this work your Generated Intellectual Property (GIP) and keeps its own copy of it.
You choose where Scrivel stores your work. You can export all of it as plain files at any time. Scrivel never uses it to train a model.
Connect the apps where your work already lives, and Scrivel imports it. You connect each app one time, and it stays in sync. Every item keeps a record of its source and its date.
Import is the easiest step in Scrivel. Each release adds more connectors.
Choose the model for each task. Use a frontier model from Anthropic, OpenAI or Google. Or run a local model on your own machine through Ollama, LM Studio or any OpenAI-compatible server.
Your knowledge base does not depend on one AI company.
02 · Find it again
Search by the words in an idea or by what you remember about it. Then look at the results in the way that helps you most.
Search and open your chats, ideas, notes, artifacts and projects in milliseconds. Search runs on your device, so results appear while you type.
The whole app responds at this speed, not only search.
You often remember the shape of an idea, not its title. Describe what you remember: the month, the length of the chat, the result, or that you did not finish it.
Scrivel finds the match. You do not lose an idea because you forgot its name.
Look at the same knowledge in different ways. A frame changes how results look: questions and answers, a timeline, or a list of decisions. A lens changes what you look for: only decisions, only open questions, or a skeptic's view of your notes.
Use them together to see things that a plain list of results hides.
While you work on something, Scrivel shows a few past ideas that relate to it. They appear at the moment you can use them. Add one to your current work in one step.
03 · Work in one place
Move between a chat and a document without a change of app. Arrange your panes the way you want. Save the path you took, and return to it later.
Chat and write in the same place, and move between them freely. Turn part of a chat into a document, or discuss a document in a chat. Ask the AI for help inline while you write documents, notes and ideas.
Scrivel saves each thing the AI makes as its own item. That item links to the chat that made it, so you can search for it and it can resurface later.
Sometimes you want to wander. You jump between ideas, open new chats, save quotes and phrases, ask follow-up questions and take notes. A trace records that whole path and saves it.
Return to a trace later. See how one idea led to the next, and continue from any step.
Panes open, close, expand, collapse and sit side by side, like the panes in VS Code and in modern chat and agent apps. You arrange the workspace with almost no thought.
Make the knowledge base feel like yours. Set your own keybindings, change the colors, add images, and build dashboards that show what matters to you.
04 · Think for yourself
Some effort is worth it, because understanding and original ideas come from it. Scrivel keeps that effort in the places that matter to you.
Generative Friction is on. Write your own answer. Then Scrivel shows the AI's answer.
Hint: what happens to a memory each time you recall it with effort?
Your answer is correct. Recall with effort strengthens a memory more than reading it again. Spaced reviews also tell the brain that the fact is still important.
You missed one point: the gaps between reviews must grow.
Generative Friction is a set of switches. Each switch asks you to do part of the work yourself before the AI helps.
You choose which switches are on.
Practice and test what you want to understand and remember. The tools come from research in cognitive science and teaching. They keep you active while you learn.
05 · Agents
Agents do the upkeep and the deep research that people seldom do by hand. For harder problems, you direct several agents at once.
Agents work on your knowledge base where manual upkeep seldom happens. Each agent has a clear job:
For harder problems, run several agents together and stay in control. Guide each agent, stop it, or give it a new direction while it works.
Use several agents for deep research, for debates between agents that argue different positions, for parallel work, and for analysis from many sides.
The basics
Replies appear while the model writes them. Stop a reply, edit and retry a message, attach files and copy text.
Documents and artifacts open in a pane next to the chat. You edit them live.
Scrivel formats code cleanly, so it is easy to read.
Scrivel saves your work automatically. You can undo any change. A log shows each change that an agent made.
Scrivel shows which content goes to which model.
Export everything as plain files at any time. Your work never depends on Scrivel.
Questions
Scrivel is a knowledge base for the work you do with AI. It collects your AI chats, notes, documents and artifacts in one place. You can search them, arrange them and use them again.
Scrivel will connect to AI chats such as Claude, ChatGPT and Gemini. It will also connect to cloud storage, to work tools such as Notion, Slack and GitHub, and to reading sources such as PDFs and web pages.
No. Scrivel never uses your work to train a model. You choose where Scrivel stores your work. You can export all of it as plain files at any time.
Yes. Scrivel is model-agnostic. Use a frontier model from Anthropic, OpenAI or Google. Or use a local model through Ollama, LM Studio or any OpenAI-compatible server.
Chat history stays inside one tool. Scrivel collects your work from all of your tools in one place. It finds ideas by what you remember about them, and it shows past ideas when they are relevant. You can export everything.
Scrivel is in development. Join the waitlist to get one email when early access opens. Scrivel sends no other email.