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Short guides to how Ruxpin works: capturing, filing, Rux, and what happens to your words.
Getting started
Getting started: your first captureRuxpin is for the thought you have while reading. Speak it before it slips.3 min readSigning inRuxpin signs you in with your email and a password, or with your Apple ID. You set a password once when you create your record; after that, signing in doesn't need your inbox.3 min readGetting the appRuxpin is on the App Store, free to download, with your first 30 days open. If you're reading about a build you don't have yet, that's explained here too.3 min read
Capturing & filing
Filing entries and managing sourcesEvery entry files to a source: the book, essay, or whatever you're reading. You can file before you speak, while you speak, or later.3 min readReading offlineBooks don't need Wi-Fi, and neither does capturing.3 min readUploading a voice memoSome thoughts get recorded before Ruxpin is open: a voice memo in the car, a note dictated on a walk. You can bring those in.1 min readStarring what mattersA star is the one mark you make yourself. Everything else in Ruxpin is written by you speaking or by the analysis. Sources and entries can both be starred.1 min readInside a sourceTapping a source in your Library opens its own page: a map of where your entries landed in it, anything you've starred there, and every entry filed to it.3 min readWhen the recording won't startTwo different things can stop a recording before it begins, and Ruxpin says which one it is. One is a permission you can change. The other is usually over in a second.1 min readThe lock screen widgetRuxpin can sit on your lock screen as a small round widget. Tap it and you are recording, without finding the app first. It is the fastest way to catch a thought while you are still holding the book.2 min read
Rux & your record
Rux: what it sees and what it can'tRux is the reflective companion in Ruxpin. It reads your record, and nothing else.3 min readYour reading vitalsThe Reader tab draws you as a reader, a small set of vitals you can watch over time. This guide explains what they mean and how each is worked out, so nothing on the tab is a black box.3 min readYour epigraph and vital notesThe epigraph and each vital's short note are set rather than computed live, written from your own entries and dated at the foot, like a printed impression.2 min readThe dog in the cornerThe small amber dog around Ruxpin is Rux, a real dog, Ted's. The folded page corner in the Ruxpin mark is his ear.3 min readYour themesRuxpin notices what you keep coming back to and gathers those entries into themes you can browse and search.2 min readSharing your recordYou can turn your record into a card to post or send. It is made from your own numbers, and the card you get by default carries none of your writing.2 min readWhen vitals appearWhy a vital on your Reader tab might read forming, why two of them measure your whole record rather than the last month, and why Immersion takes the longest.1 min readRux Notes: a study note from your own entriesA Rux Note is a printable study sheet built from your own entries about a book: read it in the app, save it as a PDF, print it, or share it as an image.3 min readMake: what Rux can make from your entriesRux makes things from what you have said about a book. Tap Make, beside his mark, and pick one.3 min readDaily SpinDaily Spin picks a number of pages or minutes for you to read today. Spin once from Home, read, then tap the ring to mark it done.3 min read
Account & data
Your trial and subscriptionEvery new record starts with a 30-day full-access trial, with no card and nothing to cancel. The countdown starts the day you sign up, and Home shows a quiet line as the end approaches.3 min readYour data & deletingShort version: your words are yours, audio is never kept, and deleting means deleting.2 min readAI processing and your OKRuxpin uses one AI provider to turn your thoughts into text and reflect them back. Nothing is sent until you have said yes in the app, and this page says exactly what is sent and to whom.2 min readWhat Ruxpin recordsRuxpin keeps a record of what you do in the app, so we can see where it is letting readers down. It never records what you write or read. This guide lists exactly what is kept, and when it goes.3 min readWhat Ruxpin calls youRuxpin greets you by name on Home, and your Reader tab is headed the same way. Here is where that name comes from, and how to change it to whatever you would rather be called.1 min read
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