Getting Started with rivva: The Basics
New to rivva? Learn what it does, who it's for, and how it helps you achieve sustainable high performance without burnout. Your complete intro to energy-aware productivity.
New to rivva? Welcome. We’re glad you’re here.
This guide covers what rivva does, who it’s for, and how to get the most out of it. Think of it as your intro to working smarter, not just harder.
What does rivva do?
rivva is an AI productivity assistant that unifies your email, tasks, and calendar in one intelligent workspace, then automatically schedules work based on your unique energy rhythm.
Instead of asking you to plan everything yourself, rivva learns how you work:
When you have more energy
When you slow down
When you’re most focused
When you need breaks
Then it uses that context to suggest a more realistic schedule.
As your day changes, rivva adjusts your plan (with your permission) so you stay focused without feeling overwhelmed.
Why rivva?
We’ve spent years inside fast-moving startups, corporate calendars, and productivity apps that glorify output but neglect the human behind it.
We’ve seen the toll it takes:
Burnout
Brain fog
The quiet drift from purpose
That’s why we’re building rivva.
rivva isn’t another tool that asks you to do more. It’s an intelligent assistant that helps you work with your energy, not against it.
By combining neuroscience, behavioral psychology, and real-time data from your health and workload, rivva plans your day around your natural rhythms. Focus feels easier. Rest comes sooner. And your best work happens without burning out.
We believe productivity isn’t a trade-off with wellbeing. It’s built on top of it.
Who is rivva for?
We built rivva for every knowledge worker, creative, freelancer, and entrepreneur who constantly feels overwhelmed and burns out more frequently than they should.
For everyone who has ever felt like:
No matter how hard you push yourself, the day still ends with tasks unfinished
Your mind is drained and your energy is sucked
You’re working harder than ever but making less progress on what actually matters
We built rivva for you. We built it to help you stop feeling this way because we know it’s possible.
What can you do with rivva?
Our overall vision for rivva is to redefine productivity by seamlessly integrating work and wellbeing, enabling people to achieve sustained high performance without burnout.
With this current version, you can:
1. Schedule tasks & events rivva suggests the best times for deep work, meetings, and recovery, based on your natural energy rhythms and workload.
2. Chat with Nia Nia is your personalized AI coach. She wants the best for you and wants to see you thrive. Ask Nia to help you plan your day, schedule tasks and events, or get a summary of how your week went based on time spent working and recharging.
3. Understand your energy Based on your sleep data, rivva forecasts your day and shows you in a timeline when you’ll have the most energy, when you’ll have the least, and gives you tips on what to work on at each point.
4. Extract tasks from Inbox rivva looks through your inbox and pulls out things you need to do—follow-ups from emails, meeting action items, and comments from tools like Notion, Google Docs, and GitHub. You choose what you want to work on, and rivva takes care of fitting it into your schedule.
5. Connect multiple calendars rivva lets you connect up to four Google calendars, so you can see your full day in one view. It looks at your availability across all your calendars and uses that to plan work without double-booking you.
6. Time-block tasks on your calendars When you schedule a task in rivva, you can choose to block that time on your Google Calendar. This helps you see a realistic picture of your day and shows others when you’re busy.
Will rivva help you build better habits?
Absolutely.
rivva helps you build better habits by working with how you already operate, not by forcing strict routines on you.
It gently nudges you, helps you reflect on your day, and shows patterns in how you work:
When you’re most focused
When you need breaks
What tends to drain your energy
Over time, this makes it easier to:
Focus when it matters
Take better breaks
Avoid feeling overwhelmed
It’s not about being perfect. It’s about building small, sustainable habits that actually stick.
Ready to get started? Download rivva and experience productivity that works with you, not against you.
Still have questions? We’re here to help. Email support@rivva.app or message us on WhatsApp.