Tutorials
Learn the Novus apps
Core, step-by-step guidance for the tools, grouped by app and written to stand on its own. Each app has a deeper library inside the product itself; these are the essentials. For the full reference see the documentation, and for the stories behind the builds, the product blog.
Novus Convert
Formats & batchConvert documents: Markdown, HTML & text to DOCX, PDF & EPUB
Turn Markdown, HTML, and plain text into DOCX, PDF, or EPUB, extract text and tables from Office files, make a PDF from images, and convert SRT and VTT subtitles, all locally in Novus Convert, with each result validated before it downloads.
9 min · BeginnerStart
Formats & batchConvert captions between SRT, VTT, SBV, and LRC
Four caption formats, four different jobs. SRT and VTT for video, SBV for YouTube, LRC for synced lyrics, all converting locally in the browser.
6 min · BeginnerStart
Formats & batchConvert spreadsheets and documents locally
CSV, JSON, and TSV into XLSX or ODS; XLSX and ODS interchanging with multi-sheet extraction; and Markdown, HTML, or text into DOCX, PDF, or EPUB, all in browser memory.
7 min · BeginnerStart
Novus Learn
Getting startedGetting started with Novus Learn: from search to source
Learn the core Novus Learn flow (Search, Select, Inspect) by taking one query all the way to its source: type a topic, pick the exact Wikipedia edition and page you mean, then read it and follow a single claim to the citation behind it.
8 min · BeginnerStart
Getting startedRead the citations: verify claims and judge sources in Novus Learn
The heart of source-grounded reading: how Novus Learn attaches a source identity to every topic and a citation to individual claims, how to follow a single statement to the reference behind it, and how to judge whether that reference actually holds the claim up.
8 min · BeginnerStart
Getting startedStart from Featured: a curated way into Novus Learn
When you do not have a specific query in mind, Featured is the browse-first door into Novus Learn: a curated set of real, source-grounded topics you can open directly, read with citations attached, and branch from into your own search.
6 min · BeginnerStart
Use casesSave topics to your local library in Novus Learn
Build a personal library of topics in Novus Learn without an account: save a source-grounded page to return to later, reopen it exactly as you left it, and remove it when you are done, all stored locally in your browser, with no tracking and nothing synced to a server.
7 min · BeginnerStart
Use casesAppearance, motion, and accessibility in Novus Learn
Tune Novus Learn to how you read: switch between light and dark themes, reduce motion for calmer pages, and turn on the accessibility controls that make long source-grounded topics comfortable, with a clear sense of who each setting is really for.
6 min · BeginnerStart
Use casesRead structure with Visual Studio in Novus Learn
Visual Studio turns a source into a picture you can read, visuals whose shape comes from the underlying material rather than decoration bolted on afterward. This guide covers what it is for, the diagram types it renders, presentation mode, and how to read a visual the way you read a citation.
7 min · BeginnerStart
Getting startedRead a URL in Novus Learn: turn any web page into a cited project
Paste a link at /read and Novus Learn treats that page the way it treats an encyclopedia topic: claims extracted from its own sentences, notes and cards built from those claims, and nothing invented to fill the gaps.
7 min · BeginnerStart
Use casesUpload your own material into Novus Learn
The /upload surface takes PDF, EPUB, Word, plain text, and Markdown and turns them into cited study material, parsed and stored only in your browser, with no account and no server copy.
7 min · BeginnerStart
Use casesTurn a project into a printable lesson with the Teacher Hub
The Teacher Hub at /teachers converts any Novus Learn project into a printable lesson (objectives, key points, a worksheet with an answer key, review cards, and citations) straight from the browser.
7 min · BeginnerStart
Use casesFind a career direction with the Novus Learn matcher
Use the Novus Learn career matcher end to end: pick the quick, full, or career-change questionnaire, read the shortlist against 565 occupation profiles in 20 families, open a profile properly, and verify every suggestion against public labour-market data before you act on it.
9 min · BeginnerStart
Use casesPractise for a real job aptitude test with Novus Learn
Prepare for a gated hiring assessment using the 376 career aptitude practice suites in Novus Learn: find the right suite by sector or by skill construct, practise timed, review every explanation, and know when familiarity has plateaued and you should stop.
9 min · BeginnerStart
Use casesCognitive skills, the Reasoning Challenge, and puzzles in Novus Learn
Work through the reasoning half of Novus Learn: 2,200 authored cognitive questions across 22 construct banks, a Reasoning Challenge with published methodology that is deliberately not an IQ test, and a 200-puzzle catalogue built on a real difficulty ladder.
8 min · BeginnerStart
Use casesWork through the Novus Learn JavaScript course, zero to developer
A walkthrough of the authored JavaScript curriculum in Novus Learn: 12 modules and 77 lessons in a fixed teaching order, 65 of them carrying runnable graded exercises, taught in the product's own words rather than as a list of links to documentation.
9 min · BeginnerStart
Novus Examples
Getting startedGetting started with Novus Examples: find and download a sample file
Novus Examples is a free library of 2,558 test files across 17 categories and 221 distinct extensions, generated by deterministic scripts rather than collected, so each one is copyright-clean and ships with an exact spec sheet. This guide covers what the catalog holds, how to find the right sample for the tool you are testing, and how to download it in your browser with no account.
7 min · BeginnerStart
Use casesTest a background remover with the right sample images
A background remover is only as good as the hardest image you test it on. This guide covers which sample images from Novus Examples genuinely stress a cutout (solid versus busy backgrounds, hair and edge detail, transparency and grayscale) and how to run them through the NSS Background Remover.
7 min · BeginnerStart
Formats & batchTest a file converter end to end with sample files
A converter can accept a file and still produce the wrong output. This guide covers grabbing sample files across formats from Novus Examples (image to image, documents to PDF, audio, video, and archives) running them through Novus Convert, and verifying the result actually holds up.
7 min · BeginnerStart
Use casesSample file types explained: what each sample is for
A reference for the sample variants in Novus Examples that are easy to misread: transparent versus opaque, grayscale versus color, CMYK versus sRGB, tiny versus oversized images, and the deliberate zero-byte, corrupt, and wrong-extension files built for error-handling tests.
8 min · BeginnerStart
Getting startedBrowse by purpose: find fixtures by what you are testing
The /for routes skip the format taxonomy entirely. Pick OCR, ASR, segmentation, CSV parsing, schema validation, or JWT and get the fixtures that exercise that specific thing.
6 min · BeginnerStart
Use casesTest with clean and noisy pairs
Paired fixtures (clean and noisy, colour and greyscale, source and scanned) differ in exactly one property, which is what makes a before/after test mean something.
6 min · BeginnerStart
Getting startedRead a spec sheet and use what it tells you
Every file in the library ships with its exact properties: noise sigma, silence timestamps, form fields, encodings, dimensions, and the seed that produced it. Here is how to use them.
6 min · BeginnerStart
Use casesBuild an OBS scene from a broadcast template
The 48 templates in the four broadcast categories each ship an OBS-compatible scene collection: a JSON file you import to get a scene already wired to the overlay you just downloaded. This guide covers downloading the pair, importing, and the one relink step OBS requires, and why it cannot be avoided.
7 min · BeginnerStart