Save topics to your local library in Novus Learn

The local library is a list of topics you have chosen to keep, stored in your own browser. It is not a cloud account, not a synced bookmark service, and not a profile someone else can see. When you save a topic, Novus Learn records enough to reopen that exact source-grounded page — its identity and where it lives in Wikipedia — in your browser's local storage on this device.

That design has a clear consequence worth internalizing up front: the library is as private and as portable as the browser it lives in. It costs nothing, asks for no sign-up, and shares nothing. It also does not follow you to another device or another browser, because there is no server holding a copy. Once you accept that trade, the library becomes exactly what it should be — a fast, private shelf for the reading you are actually doing.

Saving happens from the topic itself. When you have searched, selected the exact page, and are inspecting it, save it to keep that source-grounded topic in your library. Because Novus Learn preserves the page's source identity, what you save is not a vague search term to run again later — it is the specific Wikipedia page you deliberately chose, waiting to reopen as the same article with the same references.

Save with intent rather than reflex. The library is most useful when it holds the handful of topics you genuinely mean to return to — a subject you are studying, a reference you keep needing, a page you want to finish reading. A tidy shelf of deliberate saves beats a wall of everything you glanced at, and it keeps the topics that matter easy to find.

Come back any time, open your library, and your saved topics are listed and ready. Reopening one takes you straight back to that source-grounded page — the same Wikipedia article you selected, with its source identity and claim-level citations intact — so you resume reading and verifying exactly where the topic left off, without repeating the search or the disambiguation.

This is where the local library earns its place in a real workflow. A study session, a piece of writing, or an ongoing question stops being a set of searches you re-run and becomes a small collection you return to directly. Because each saved topic reopens with its sources attached, picking a subject back up never means losing the provenance you established the first time through.

A library is only useful if you can find things in it, so treat it like a working shelf rather than an archive. Glance over your saved topics from time to time and keep the list to what is still relevant to what you are doing now. A short, current library surfaces the page you want immediately; a bloated one buries it under things you finished with weeks ago.

Curation is also how you keep the private, low-friction feel of the feature. Because nothing is synced or backed up, there is no "everything forever" archive quietly accumulating — the library is exactly what you decide to keep on this device, and pruning it is a normal part of using it well rather than a chore you are neglecting.

Removing a topic is as direct as saving one: remove it from the library and it is gone from your browser's local storage. There is no trash to empty on a server and no lingering copy elsewhere, because there was never a server copy to begin with. When you remove a saved topic, you have genuinely removed it — the record simply ceases to exist on your device.

This makes cleanup honest and complete. Finished with a subject? Remove it and the shelf is clean. Because the original Wikipedia page still exists, removing a saved topic costs you nothing permanent — if you need it again, you can search, select, and save it once more in moments. The library is meant to be edited freely, not hoarded.

Everything about the local library follows from one principle: local-first, no tracking. Your saved topics are stored in your browser on your device, not in an account and not on a Novus Learn server, and they are not used to profile you. This is the same privacy stance the guide at Help centre describes for the app as a whole — your reading is yours.

The practical flip side is that the library shares the fate of your browser storage. Clearing your browser data, or using a different browser or device, means the library is not there — because it was never anywhere but here. If a set of saved topics matters, keep working in the same browser, and note the sources you most rely on separately as well. A personal /upload flow for your own material is planned but not yet live, so for now the library covers Wikipedia topics you have selected, kept entirely on your device.