A visual workspace for reading, sources, and research context.

Vicovio

Create cards, connect ideas, and organize research as it grows.

Source-based
Keep readings, notes, and references close to your thinking.
Visual
Cards, groups, and bookshelves stay connected in one workspace.
Historical
Knowledge takes shape in history. Memory unfolds in time.
Vicovio workspace showing cards and relationships.

Start with one card, then add structure as your research grows.

Vicovio does not ask you to design a full system before you begin. Capture an idea, a book, or a source first. When patterns appear, organize them with groups, bookshelves, and visual links.

01

Card

Save ideas, sources, books, people, events, and open questions as cards.

02

Group

When cards start forming relationships, organize them with groups instead of fixed folders.

03

Bookshelf

Open a bookshelf card to keep related books, themes, and research questions together.

04

Context

Add context when you need it, so the project grows with the work itself.

Every project can grow from a simple canvas into a structured workspace.

Vicovio is not primarily a file manager. Its core is the structure inside a project: cards can be moved, linked, grouped, and expanded into bookshelves when your research needs more context.

Diagram of Vicovio projects, cards, groups, and bookshelves.
Relationship between Vicovio cards and bookshelves.

Don’t force your research into fixed categories.

Cards can stand alone, or be linked, grouped, or placed into bookshelf context. A bookshelf is not decoration. It is an expandable structure for reading, sources, and questions.

  • Cards hold a single object, idea, or source.
  • Groups organize context that has already emerged, without deciding every category in advance.
  • Bookshelf cards gather related books and reading questions in one place.

Stay simple when the work is simple. Add tools when the research needs them.

Start small

Begin by creating cards. You do not need to learn the whole system first.

Reveal structure

As cards form groups and patterns, related features appear step by step.

Keep control

You decide when relationships are created. Vicovio does not force a rigid system.

Illustration of Vicovio features appearing as research grows.

More tools appear when your research needs them.

Vicovio does not spread every tool out at once. With a few cards, it stays a clear canvas. As you build groups, bookshelves, and research context, more advanced capabilities become available.

Use Vicovio in the browser now, and move deeper with Desktop later.

Web App

Best for opening quickly, creating cards, organizing projects, and using the core workspace today.

Open Web App

Desktop Workspace

Best for keeping projects and attachments long term in a local folder you choose.

Download Mac Beta
Your structure, your files. Vicovio Desktop is built around a local workspace, so projects and attachments stay with you.

Open Vicovio and start shaping your research context.