The curious reader
Remember the books that change you.
Track your reading, keep a review, and return to the ideas worth carrying forward.
Watch the reading journalA PERSONAL LIBRARY FOR MAC AND WINDOWS
Write. Research.
Plan. Connect.
All in one place.
Shelve your books, organize personal documents, write in notebooks, and map your ideas. Keep research notes connected to their sources, and bring everyday paperwork and creative projects into one personal library. It lives on your computer, and you buy it once.
Buy once.No subscription.
ONE LIBRARY. FIVE WAYS IN.Pick the look you like.
Books, notes, research, visual thinking, and documents—connected in one place. Select any image to explore it at full size.
FAMILIAR PLACES. MORE POSSIBILITIES.
Make yourself
at home.
A reading room for your books. Cabinets for your documents. Notebooks for the ideas taking shape. Explore the app, one view at a time.
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A place for your papers, projects, and everyday life.
Keep household documents, receipts, warranties, manuals, and project files in cabinets, drawers, and folders you name yourself. Bring your personal documents and research into the same library, organized your way.
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A library you can feel at home in.
Browse a room of books. Keep track of physical reading, or open imported books and get back to the text.
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Remember more than the title.
Record a half-star rating, reading status, date finished, and your own review—even without an ebook file.
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Give a thought room to develop.
Write with headings and lists, organize notes into notebooks, and use nested tags to connect overlapping interests.
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See how the pieces connect.
Build mind maps, flowcharts, and whiteboards. Work on several cards together and keep links back to your library.
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Stay close to the source.
Turn a passage into a question, reflection, or comparison. Keep the original words beside your own thinking.
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Find an idea from more than one direction.
Bring notes, books, highlights, and passages together under a theme. Nest tags as your interests grow.
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WATCH IT WORK
See what you can do.
Start with a real task.
Five short demos, with captions. Follow a real task from its first click to something you can use.
Follow a question back to its source
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- Open a source. Read your articles and papers in Oravelle.
- Highlight a passage. Highlight the sentence worth keeping.
- Start a question. Use the passage to start a question.
- Ask your question. Ask it. The passage stays linked.
- Keep the context. Its words sit above your own answer.
- Follow it back. Open the source at the exact passage.
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Keep a journal of your reading life
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- Your reading library. Every book you read, on your own shelves.
- Add a book. Add a book you read in print. No file needed.
- Rate it. Rate it in half stars.
- Track what you read. Mark it finished, with the date.
- Write a review. Write a review. It saves as you type.
- Make it your own. Your shelf grows with every book.
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Give your documents a place to belong
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- A familiar filing system. Cabinets and drawers, named your way.
- Open a drawer. Open a drawer to see what belongs together.
- Preview a document. Preview a document before you open it.
- Read in context. Open it to read, section by section.
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Turn a small idea into a working project
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- Start in a notebook. Give each project its own notebook.
- Make space to write. Write with headings and checklists as you type.
- Tag it. Type # to tag it. Tags work across notebooks.
- Keep the next step. Check things off as you go.
- Connect across notebooks. One tag gathers notes from every notebook.
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See the connections. Follow the idea.
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- Start with a visual map. Map an idea on a canvas.
- Work on cards together. Select several cards and change them at once.
- Keep a link to the original. A card can link back to the note it came from.
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Recorded in Oravelle with a sample library. Captions and transcripts included.
Music in all five demos: “Carefree” by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) · CC BY 4.0. Excerpts with volume adjustment and fades.
START WITH WHAT MATTERS TO YOU
One library.
Many ways to use it.
You do not need a perfect system to begin. Bring a book, a document, a question, or a half-formed idea.
The researcher
Keep the question and the evidence close.
Work from source passages, develop questions, and keep a route back to the original.
Watch a question take shapeThe writer
Give your next draft a place to begin.
Gather working notes, shape an outline, and find the threads that belong together.
Watch a working notebookThe student
Build understanding, one connection at a time.
Organize class notes by subject, use tags across notebooks, and map a difficult idea.
Watch connected diagramsThe project planner
Move from “what if” to “what next.”
Keep a project’s documents, thinking, and visual plan within the same library.
Watch a project cabinetThe everyday organizer
Keep the details of daily life together.
Give household paperwork, receipts, warranties, and useful reference documents a place to belong. Organize them into drawers for your home, purchases, travel, or personal projects.
Watch the filing cabinetsFOR CLASS
For Educators & Students
Keep your class readings, files and notes in one place. Start from a ready-made page for a lab report, a research paper, a lesson plan and more.
Take better notes.
Write better papers.
Start a lab report, essay or research paper from a ready-made page. Add your sources as you write. Oravelle builds the reference list for you.
Plan your lessons.
Reuse what works.
Write lesson plans, rubrics and assignment sheets. Save your own version once and use it again every school year.
12 READY-MADE PAGES
Pick a page to start with.
In Notebooks, open your class notebook and click Templates. Choose one under For students or For teachers. It opens as a new note you can change any way you like.
Research paper (APA 7)
A paper with a title page and a reference list.
How to use this template
Type over the title page. Write each section. Add sources with Insert → Citation….
Follow the guide →Essay outline
Plan your essay before you write it.
How to use this template
Write your main point first. Then plan each paragraph: its point, your proof, and how it connects.
Lab report
For experiments: question, steps, data, results.
How to use this template
Fill in the table at the top. Write your question and your guess. Record what you measured.
Literature review
Compare what different sources say.
How to use this template
List your sources in the table. Then group them by what they agree and disagree on.
Follow the guide →Annotated bibliography
A short note about each source you read.
How to use this template
Add a citation for each source. Under it, write what it says and how you will use it.
Follow the guide →Lecture notes (Cornell)
Notes on the right, questions on the left.
How to use this template
Take notes on the right during class. After class, write questions on the left.
Follow the guide →Book report
Tell what a book is about and what you think.
How to use this template
Write the summary, the main ideas, a passage you liked, and your opinion.
Lesson plan
Objectives, activities and timing for one class.
How to use this template
Write what students will be able to do. Plan each part of the class with a time.
Follow the guide →Rubric
How you will grade a task.
How to use this template
For each part of the task, describe the work that earns each score. Add up the scores yourself.
Follow the guide →Assignment sheet
What students must do, and by when.
Course outline
Your plan for the whole term.
How to use this template
List the units, readings and tests. Check that the grade weights add up to 100%.
Syllabus
The course guide you give students.
How to use this template
Fill in the schedule, grading and rules. Use your school’s own wording for policies.
STEP BY STEP
Six short guides.
Each guide takes a few minutes. Try it in your own library as you read. The pictures show the Mac and Windows app in light mode.
01Start a note from a templateFor your first lab report
Open your class notebook in Notebooks. For example, choose General Biology 1.
Open General Biology 1 in the folder panel. Choose Lab report from the Templates menu. A new note opens.
Choose Lab report under For students. Give the note a clear title, such as Lab 3: Seed growth.
Replace the hints in italics with your work. Delete any part you do not need.
Tip: Already started a blank note? Click Templates inside it. The template fills that note instead of making a new one.
02Cite your sources in a research paperThe reference list builds itself
Start a Research paper (APA 7) note in your Practical Research 2 notebook.
At the place where your citation belongs, choose Insert → Citation….
Choose Citation… from the Insert menu. Add your source in the citation window. Search From your library or type the details. Put the page number in Page or place in the source, then click Insert citation.
Search From your library. Scroll down to the Insert citation button. Check the reference list at the end of the paper. To use MLA or Chicago, click the list and change Style.
Click the reference list to choose its Style.
Tip: Made a mistake? Click the citation in your text, then Edit source….
03Turn lecture notes into a reviewThe Cornell method
Start a Lecture notes (Cornell) note.
Use the left column for questions and the right column for notes. During class, write in the Notes column on the right.
After class, write a question for each note in the left column.
Turn your photosynthesis notes into questions. Test yourself: cover the right column and answer the questions out loud. Finish with a short summary at the bottom.
04Hand in your work as Word or PDFFor your teacher or a printer
Open your finished note and click Share note at the top.
Open Share note to save a copy for your teacher. Under Format, choose Word — editable document or PDF — ready to read.
For a school paper, tick Paper layout, for handing in. This uses Times New Roman 12, double spacing, 1-inch margins and page numbers.
Tick Paper layout, for handing in. Click Save a copy. Open the file and check it before you hand it in.
Tip: In paper layout, a divider line starts a new page. Use one after your title page.
05Plan a lesson with a rubricFor teachers · Three notes that work together
Start a Lesson plan in your English 9 notebook. Write what students will be able to do by the end of class.
Write the lesson’s Learning objectives. Start a Rubric for the task. For each part, describe the work that earns a 4, 3, 2 and 1.
Describe the work that earns each score. Start an Assignment sheet. Describe the task, the due date and how to submit.
Link the rubric to the assignment: click Note link and choose your rubric.
Tip: When you send the assignment as Word or PDF, send the rubric as its own file too.
06Save your own templateFor teachers · Set it up once, use it every year
In Notebooks, click Create a template. A new note opens in your Templates notebook.
Create a template from the Notebooks page. Give it a clear name, such as Weekly quiz or Unit plan. Add the headings and tables you always use.
Next time, open your class notebook and choose your saved page under Templates → Your templates.
Choose Weekly quiz under Your templates.
Tip: Changing your template later only changes new copies. Notes you already made stay the same.
SET UP A CLASS
One cabinet and one notebook per class.
Filing Cabinets hold files you get, like handouts and slides. Notebooks hold what you write. Bookshelves hold your books. Try one of these class examples.
STUDENT
General Biology 1
HandoutsSlidesLab sheetsAssignmentsGraded workReviewers
Notebook: One Lecture notes (Cornell) note per class; one Lab report per experiment.
STUDENT
Practical Research 2
InstructionsArticlesSurvey formsDataDraftsFinal paper
Notebook: Start with an Annotated bibliography, then a Literature review, then a Research paper (APA 7).
TEACHER
English 9
Curriculum guideLesson plansHandoutsQuizzesRubricsStudent work
Notebook: A Lesson plan for each class, with its Rubric and Assignment sheet.
How to make one
- In Filing Cabinets, click New cabinet. Name it after your class.
- Click + Drawer on the cabinet. Double-click a nameplate to rename it.
- Drag files from Finder or File Explorer onto a drawer.
- In Bookshelves, click + next to BOOKSHELVES in the side panel. Make a folder for the class’s books.
EDUCATION PRICES
Buy once.
Keep learning.
Pay once for Oravelle. Get 1 year of updates. Keep using your copy after that.
Prices are in US dollars.
SINGLE LICENSE
Students & teachers
$29.99 once per person
- For one student or teacher.
- Use it on up to 5 of your own Mac or Windows computers in total.
- Includes 1 year of updates.
- Keep using it after that, even after you graduate.
BULK LICENSES
Schools buying for many people
$19.99 per person, once
- Each student or teacher gets their own copy and their own library.
- Includes 1 year of updates.
- Buying licenses does not give the school access to anyone’s notes.
- The school quote confirms the number of licenses.
SHARED COMPUTERS
Computer labs
Ask for a quote
- For school computers shared by many students.
- One license per computer.
What happens after one year?
Keep using the last version you received. Renew updates only if you want another year of new versions. There is no automatic renewal.
Your first year includes new versions released during that year, including major versions.
Your library stays yours.
Keep your books, notes and class files in your own library. A school license does not give the school access to them.
Optional AI services charge separately.
KEEP THE CONTEXT
Your thinking.
With a way back.
A note is more useful when you can see where it came from. Follow a passage into a question, open the original, and keep developing your response.
Connections stay visible across your notes and diagrams. The source’s words and your interpretation each have their place.
Watch a source become a questionA question, its source, and your own response—in the same library.
A LIBRARY THAT BELONGS TO YOU
Build it slowly.
Keep it yours.
Your knowledge is something you build over time. Oravelle is designed to give you a lasting place for it.
Pay once. Keep it.
No subscription is required to keep using your eligible version. Education licenses include 1 year of updates. Renew updates only if you choose. See education licenses.
Local at heart.
Your library lives on your computer, not on our servers. Read and write offline. If you want, sync it through a cloud folder you already use.
Your tools. Your choices.
Export any note as Word or PDF, or export your whole library. AI is optional. Oravelle can write a request for the AI you already use, and nothing it sends back is saved until you accept it. You can also connect a provider with your own API key; their charges are separate.
A FEW THINGS YOU MIGHT WONDER
Before you
make yourself at home.
Do I need ebook files to use the Bookshelves?
No. Add any book by its title, then rate it, track your reading and write a review. If you add the ebook later, your rating and review stay with it.
Can I bring my existing notes and documents?
Yes. Drop in Markdown, plain text, PDF, EPUB or Word files. Each one becomes a document you can read, highlight and file. To keep writing in one, paste it into a note. There’s no one-step move from another notes app yet.
Does Oravelle automatically fact-check everything?
No. Oravelle doesn’t decide what’s true. It keeps each claim linked to its passage, so you can check it yourself and write down what you found.
Is AI required?
No. You can read, write, organize documents, and create diagrams without AI. If you want help, Oravelle can write a request for the AI you already use. You paste the answer back, and nothing is saved until you accept it.
Can I use Oravelle for personal documents?
Yes. Use Filing Cabinets for household paperwork, receipts, warranties, manuals, and project files. Add supported document files and organize them into cabinets, drawers, and folders you name yourself.
Can I password protect a drawer?
Yes. Start with an empty drawer, choose a password, then add files directly to it. A padlock marks the protected drawer. File contents and filenames stay encrypted in your library, backups, and sync; protected files stay out of search and AI. You can preview PDF, text, and image files while unlocked, or save an unencrypted copy to open elsewhere.
The drawer name remains visible. Original files, saved copies, and older backups are not changed. Keep your password safe: it cannot be reset. Protected drawers are available in the Mac and Windows app.
Is there a subscription?
No subscription is required to keep using your eligible version. Education licenses are a one-time purchase with 1 year of updates. Renew updates only if you choose. Optional AI provider charges are separate. See education prices.
SOMETHING TO MAKE YOUR OWN
Your next idea
deserves a place.
Start with one book, one note or one question.
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