Novus Learn

What Novus Learn does today

Novus Learn turns a source into study material without ever leaving that source behind. You point it at something fixed (a Wikipedia topic pinned to a specific revision, a URL, a whole site, an open-access paper, a video, a textbook, an uploaded file, or a codebase) and it reads that material and assembles everything downstream out of the material's own sentences. What comes back is a summary, study notes, flashcards, a quiz, a concept map, a guided lesson, and visuals, each traceable to the passage it came from.

The distinction that matters most is still what Novus Learn does not do. It does not generate an answer, paraphrase a source into an unattributed summary, or invent citations. Its own phrasing for this is blunt: when the source cannot answer, it says so. Ambiguous and sparse topics stay limited rather than being padded with unsupported detail.

• Choose a source: nine input modes, from a Wikipedia topic to a codebase.
• Extract: claims are lifted from the source, not rewritten around it.
• Study: summary, notes, flashcards, quiz, concept map, guided lesson, visuals.
• Keep: projects saved in versioned IndexedDB snapshots on your device, no account.

Nine ways to bring in a source

The June 2026 launch read Wikipedia. Everything since has been about widening the front door while keeping the same extractive contract behind it. Today nine input modes feed the same study pipeline, so the artifacts you get from a journal article are built exactly the way the artifacts from an encyclopedia topic are.

Video and code deserve a specific note. Video breakdowns work from captions when they exist and fall back to on-device transcription when they do not, so a clip never has to leave your machine to become notes. The code surfaces analyse a JavaScript codebase and cite official language documentation rather than improvising explanations.

• Search a topic: Wikipedia, pinned to a specific revision so a project does not drift.
• Read a URL (/read): any public web page.
• Index a site (/site): crawl a whole site into one project.
• Study a paper (/paper): open-access articles via Europe PMC.
• Break down a video (/video): captions, or on-device transcription when there are none.
• Break down a textbook (/textbook): chapter-aware structure.
• Upload (/upload): PDF, EPUB, Word, plain text, and Markdown.
• Learn to code (/languages): paths that cite official documentation.
• X-ray a codebase (/code) plus a JavaScript scratchpad (/playground).

What you get back: seven study artifacts

Every project produces the same set of artifacts, because the point is to study one source several ways rather than to collect several sources. The summary reorganises without adding; notes are structured for revision; flashcards, a quiz, and a concept map turn the same claims into recall practice; a guided lesson sequences them; and Visual Studio renders the structure the source already implies.

Flashcards can be exported as a printable Markdown answer key carrying the prompt, the answer, and the source for each card, which is the small detail that makes the deck usable away from the screen without breaking the citation trail.

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The careers layer

Novus Learn now carries a researched occupation catalog: 565 occupations grouped into 20 families, each with pathway overviews, qualification routes, and links to the official bodies the information came from. It is built the same way the study material is (sourced and cited rather than summarised from memory) which is why it sits inside this app rather than being a separate product.

The career matcher (/careers/matcher) is a questionnaire that runs entirely on your device and suggests families rather than pronouncing a single verdict. It comes in three lengths: a quick pass, a full form, and a career-change variant aimed at people already in work. No account is involved, results are not uploaded, and nothing is shared unless you export it yourself. Country pages (/careers/countries) cover how entry routes and qualifications actually differ by jurisdiction, and the methodology page states plainly how the content is sourced and kept honest.

• 565 occupations across 20 families; browse at /careers, or by family at /careers/families.
• Occupation guides at /guides cite published profiles and aptitude suites, not a second catalog. Reliability engineer and ecologist landings are the first two.
• Career matcher at /careers/matcher: quick, full, and career-change forms, all device-local.
• Country-specific entry routes and qualifications at /careers/countries.
• Sourcing and verification stated openly at /careers/methodology; matcher storage at /careers/privacy.

Aptitude, cognitive skills, and the Novus Reasoning Challenge

The assessments hub (/assessments) collects three practice layers. Aptitude preparation runs to 376 practice suites across 24 sectors and 35 constructs, totalling 22,560 keyed items; every suite is browsable at /aptitude/tests and filterable by the sector or the skill you are actually preparing for. Cognitive skills practice adds 2,200 questions across 22 banks (22 banks of 10 sections of 10 items) each written for its own construct rather than recycled from a general pool, with printable packs at /cognitive-skills/downloads.

The Novus Reasoning Challenge (/iq-challenge) is 9 public forms plus a practice lab of 12 modules covering pattern matrices, rule sequences, logical deduction, spatial transforms, quantitative and verbal relations, working memory, attention, symbol rules, warm-ups, strategy review, and pacing habits. The naming is deliberate: it is an entertainment and educational instrument, it is not an IQ test, and it does not return a clinical score. How the items are constructed and what a result does and does not mean are stated at /iq-challenge/methodology and /iq-challenge/faq.

Puzzles (/puzzles) sit alongside all of this: 200 original puzzles across 8 categories, 25 per category, untimed, and each one carrying an explanation that teaches the method rather than just revealing the answer.

• 376 aptitude practice suites: 24 sectors, 35 constructs, 22,560 keyed items (/aptitude/tests).
• 2,200 cognitive practice questions across 22 banks (/cognitive-skills), with printable packs.
• Novus Reasoning Challenge: 9 forms and 12 practice-lab modules (/iq-challenge). Not an IQ test.
• 200 puzzles across 8 categories, each explained (/puzzles).
• Item construction and editorial standards published at /assessment-methodology and /assessment-editorial-policy.

Programming courses and the JavaScript curriculum

The /languages section carries an authored course where one exists and a curated citation index otherwise: the distinction is stated on the page so nobody mistakes a reading list for a course. JavaScript is the authored one: 12 modules and 77 lessons running from values and types through control flow, functions, arrays and objects, iteration, strings, error handling, asynchronous JavaScript, data modelling, modules and tooling, testing and debugging, and a capstone.

Exercises are graded in a sandbox on the learner's own device, and the accompanying scratchpad (/playground) and code-study surface (/code) let you run what you are learning and then point the same extractive pipeline at a real JavaScript codebase. The curated documentation index at /languages/javascript/reference is explicitly an index into the official docs, not a substitute for them.

• JavaScript course: 12 modules, 77 lessons (/languages/javascript), graded locally.
• Official-docs reading order at /languages/javascript/reference: an index, not a course.
• Scratchpad at /playground; codebase study at /code.

Visual Studio and the Teacher Hub

Visual Studio (/visuals) produces visuals that earn their shape from the source rather than being decorated after the fact. Alongside the original diagram types it now renders hierarchies, labeled systems, and scale comparisons, and it has a full-screen presentation mode for teaching from a project directly.

The Teacher Hub (/teachers) turns any project (a textbook, a PDF, a slide deck, a document, or a Wikipedia topic) into a printable lesson containing learning objectives, key points, a worksheet with an answer key, review cards, and source citations. It prints, or saves to PDF, straight from the browser: no plugin, no account, and nothing uploaded. Because the lesson is assembled from the project's own sources, nothing in it is invented.

Sources, the dictionary, and languages

Novus Learn draws on Wikipedia article text, Wikidata for structured identity, Wikimedia Commons for reusable media, and Wiktionary for dictionary entries, plus whatever public page, open-access article, or file you bring it. The dictionary now falls back to an encyclopedic explanation from Wikipedia for phrases and terms that no standard dictionary carries.

A unified command palette (⌘K / Ctrl-K) searches topics, your library, and the dictionary from anywhere in the app. Wikipedia sources can be pulled from ten language editions: English, Français, Español, Deutsch, Português, Italiano, 日本語, 中文, العربية, and हिन्दी. The interface itself is English.

• Wikipedia, Wikidata, Wikimedia Commons, and Wiktionary.
• Public web pages, indexed sites, and open-access journal articles.
• Your own uploads: PDF, EPUB, Word, text, and Markdown.
• Explore (/explore), Featured (/featured), My Library (/library), and Recent (/recent).

Local by default: storage, privacy, and appearance

Novus Learn is accountless and local-first. Generated projects remain on the device that made them, held in versioned IndexedDB snapshots that skip unchanged writes, and theme and motion choices are stored only in that browser. There is no login, no cloud profile, and no third-party tracker on content pages.

Appearance controls cover theme, motion, and accessibility, treated as first-class settings rather than afterthoughts, which matters more here than in most apps, because a study tool is somewhere people sit for a long time.

• Accountless: no sign-in, no cloud profile, no sync you did not ask for.
• Versioned IndexedDB snapshots keep a project's history without a server.
• Theme, motion, and accessibility controls stored locally.

How Novus Learn fits the portfolio

Novus Learn is the learning-and-reference half of the portfolio alongside Novus Examples, and it is now the broadest app in it: study pipeline, careers, assessments, puzzles, and an authored course under one accountless roof. NSS Background Remover handles image and video cutouts and editing, Novus Visualizers handles creator video, Novus PDF Studio handles PDF work, Novus Convert handles file conversion, Novus AI Stats handles private AI history analytics, and Novus Striker is the arcade game. Each app keeps its core job free and uses the browser when local processing is the right architecture, which, for a tool that promises your reading stays yours, it plainly is.

Open learn.novusstreamsolutions.com to use the app. /features lists every shipped capability with registry-derived counts; /my-learning is the on-device dashboard (projects, resumable practice, due review, local backup); /guides are short occupation landings that cite published profiles rather than a parallel catalog. The current working inventory is mapped at Tool maps, the first complete walkthrough is Getting started with Novus Learn: from search to source, and the launch story is Novus Learn launch: follow the source, see the connections.