How it works

How Novus Learn turns a source into a study space.

The method behind Novus Learn: how it extracts, source-grounds, connects, and makes any source studyable, without generating or inventing anything.

Applies to Novus Learn 0.1.0

The core idea: extract, never generate

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Most learning tools generate new text about a source. Novus Learn does the opposite. It reads a fixed source and builds everything (claims, summaries, notes, flashcards, quizzes, a concept map, and visuals) from that source's own sentences. There is no language model writing answers, so there is nothing to hallucinate and nothing to invent.

That single decision shapes the whole product. Because every claim is a real sentence from the source, you can trust the breakdown exactly as much as you trust the source, and you can check any claim in one click.

It starts with a fixed source

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Whether you search a Wikipedia topic, paste an article URL, upload a file, or open a journal article, Novus Learn pins a specific version of that source: a Wikipedia revision, a retrieved page, your uploaded text, or a paper's full text. Everything downstream is built from that fixed snapshot, so a breakdown is reproducible and always points back to exactly what it read.

When the source can't answer, it says so

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Real sources have gaps. A sparse article is marked limited-source instead of being padded with guesses; a title with several meanings is marked as needing a choice rather than having one picked for you. The Ask feature answers only from the source's own sentences, and tells you when the source cannot answer instead of making something up.

From claims to a whole study space

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Once the claims exist, the study tools follow, all built only from supported claims. The summary and study notes reorganise the material; flashcards and the quiz turn claims into recall practice; the guided lesson walks them in order; the concept map shows how ideas connect; and the Visual Studio draws diagrams from the same evidence. Each tool links back to the source it came from.

The sources: all open, keyless, and attributed

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  • Wikipedia for article text, pinned to a specific revision.
  • Wikidata for structured identity when an article links an entity.
  • Wikimedia Commons for reusable media and licence metadata.
  • Wiktionary for the free, source-cited dictionary.
  • Any public web page you point it at, extracted with a readability pass.
  • Open-access journal articles (Europe PMC), abstract or full text.
  • Your own files (text, Markdown, EPUB, PDF, Word, PowerPoint, and transcripts) parsed locally in the browser.

Local-first and accountless by design

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Public pages open without a login. Saved projects, preferences, and history live on your device in local storage and IndexedDB. There is no account and no cloud profile. Analytics never runs until you enable it in the cookie banner, in any region; optional advertising follows your region's default, which the banner explains, and can be switched off at any time.

How to check our work

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Every claim opens its evidence. Every project can download a fully-referenced source list. And every source keeps a link back to the original (the exact Wikipedia revision, the page you read, or the paper), so you are never more than one click from verifying what you studied.

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