Build a Study Pack From What You Already Saved

My Learning already has a private backup path for moving an entire device store. That archive is a machine file: useful when you change browsers, and the wrong thing when you only need three of the fourteen items you have saved. The study pack builder closes that gap. It asks you to tick the lesson notes, topics, and continue items that belong together, then writes one document you can print, email to a tutor, or open on a phone that has no Novus Learn installed.

The panel stays hidden when the device has nothing saved. An empty picker can only disappoint, and the dashboard already earns every section that appears. When material exists, the heading is plain: Build a study pack. The supporting line counts how many things you can choose from, so you know the list is drawn from what this browser actually holds rather than from a catalog of possible tools.

That distinction matters for privacy as much as for convenience. A full backup can contain every notebook entry, every continue item, and every preference you have not yet decided to share. A pack is an intentional subset. You see the checklist, you name the file, and you download only what you selected. Nothing in that flow creates a Novus Learn account or a server-side copy of the notes.

Everything you can tick falls into three groups, listed in the order the panel shows them. Lesson notes and bookmarks come from the lesson notebook store. Saved topics come from the local library. Work in progress comes from the continue list My Learning already uses to help you resume.

Each row has a label you can recognise, a short detail line, and a stable key that doubles as the checkbox value. The builder does not invent study items at export time. It only packages the SelectedStudyItem already attached to that row, which is why the rules that decide what may appear in a downloaded file are unit-tested without rendering the panel.

If a lesson is filed in your notebook with no written note, the selectable still appears. The pack records that the lesson is filed, rather than inventing prose you never wrote. Empty notes are honest emptiness. Invented filler would be the opposite of the local-first promise.

• Lesson notes and bookmarks: section markers and the private note for a skill lesson.
• Saved topics: library entries you kept for later study.
• Work in progress: continue items that are still open on this device.
• Stable checkbox keys: the same selection model the unit tests assert against.
• No invented rows: if it is not on this device, it cannot be ticked.

A pack that prints a /project/… address is useless to anyone who is not sitting at this browser, and it would also fail the export privacy guard. The selection layer therefore drops device-scoped hrefs rather than carrying them into the file. The pack prints that the material is on this device only. Downstream asserts stay strict; they simply never have to fire on the normal path.

That rule is the difference between a portable handout and an accidental leak of a local project identity. Public routes that begin with a slash and are not private may still appear as shareable links. Everything else is summarised as content that only this browser can reopen interactively.

When you are preparing a pack for someone else, read the rendered file before you send it. If a row says the material is device-only, either study together on this browser or copy the substance into a note before you export. The product will not quietly rewrite a private address into a public surrogate.

Before download you can name the pack. The default is My selected learning. The title field caps at eighty characters so the filename slug stays a filename rather than a paragraph. Naming is not branding theatre: it is how you tell next week's PDF from last week's without opening both.

Four formats ship today: HTML, PDF, CSV, and plain text. HTML and PDF are the readable editions for tutoring and printing. CSV is the rearrangeable table for a spreadsheet schedule. Plain text is the lightest option for a notes app, a basic device, or a screen-reader workflow that wants a direct reading order.

The writers for those formats live in a module the panel fetches when you open the picker, so the first paint of My Learning does not pay for PDF layout until you ask for a pack. The buttons stay disabled until that module is ready. That is deliberate: a half-loaded export that promises PDF and delivers an empty blob would be worse than a short wait with a clear status line.

Download writes a file through the same local download helper other exports use. Advertising disclosure on the export control is separate product chrome; it does not upload your notes. The pack itself is assembled in the browser from the selection you made.

A study pack is not account sync. Two devices can hold different notebooks, and Novus Learn cannot reconcile them on a server it does not have. Clearing site data removes the sources the pack was built from. Keep the file if you need the content after a reset.

The interactive Saved state beside a lesson heading only returns if you restore a private backup that still contains that notebook entry. A text or PDF pack will not recreate those controls by itself. That is the same durability tradeoff the lesson notebook article already states, restated here because packs are easy to mistake for restore tools.

Topic pages already offer a complete study pack for that one project: notes, flashcards, quiz, and references drawn from the open topic. My Learning's builder answers a different question: which of my saved things belong together across lessons and topics?

Use the topic pack when you are deep in one source and want everything that belongs to it. Use My Learning when you are assembling a session from several saved pieces: for example two aptitude lessons, one Wikipedia topic, and a continue item you still need to finish. Collapsing those tools into one button would hide which promises still hold after you leave the site.

Use the pack when you want a portable subset. Use the private backup when you want the whole machine state. Use a single lesson's plain-text notebook download when you only need that lesson's note and bookmarks. Each tool names a different job on purpose.

If you are preparing for a session with someone else, pick the smallest set that answers their questions, prefer HTML or PDF, and check that every link in the pack is one they can open. If a row says the material is device-only, either study it together on this browser or copy the substance into the note before you export.

The mid-article demo on this page walks the same three stages the panel uses: select, name, download. It is a coded walkthrough, not a film of your private notes. The category card film is the captions-first product guide for the same flow, unloaded until you press Watch.