Rux: what it sees and what it can't

Rux is the reflective companion in Ruxpin. It reads your record, and only your record.

What Rux works from

When you ask Rux something, it's handed a small set of your own past entries: from the same reading, from matches on your question, from the themes your question is about, and from your recent captures.

It can also go and look. If the answer is likely in an older thought than the ones already in front of it, Rux will search your record for a word you name, open everything you've filed under one book, or open a single thought in full, so a reply can reach something from months ago that your question's own words would never have matched. Everything it says is grounded in your own entries, and every citation is a real one you can tap, including ones it went and found.

What Rux can't see

• The text of your books. Ruxpin doesn't contain book text and Rux can't look it up. It knows Middlemarch only through what you've said about Middlemarch.
• The wider internet. No browsing, no outside sources.
• Other readers' records. Your entries are yours alone.
• Work that isn't reading. Ask it to draft your cover letter, do your homework, or write your talk and it will turn you down, warmly, and hand your books back.

This is deliberate: Rux holds up a mirror to your own thinking. Questions about your reading are always fair game, even ones your record can't answer. So is asking which of your own notes bear on something, whatever that something happens to be: a talk you're preparing, a decision you're weighing. What Rux won't do is the work itself.

Very occasionally a reply stops partway and Rux says so. There's a filter on what it writes back, and it errs toward letting difficult subjects through. Books are full of them, and reflecting on the worst thing you've read is the whole point. Nothing filters what you capture: whatever you say is transcribed as you said it and stays in your record either way.

Where to find it

Rux arrives as a sheet over wherever you are, and the same Rux box invites it everywhere: on Home it draws on your whole record, on a source in your Library it stays with that reading, and at the foot of an entry it starts from that thought. Type a question and tap Ask. Or, on an entry, leave the box empty and tap Reflect to hear what Rux notices unprompted. Ask Rux in the Ruxpin menu at the top of any tab reaches your whole record too, and a search offers to hand Rux your question.

The small sitting dog is Rux himself, perched on the Rux box. He has a page of his own: The dog in the corner.

If you haven't yet allowed Ruxpin to send thoughts to the AI service (the Ruxpin uses AI. screen you met after signing in), your first question brings that sheet back with an Allow and ask button, and your question is kept while you decide.

Speak your question or type it. The bar works both ways. Rux keeps the thread: reopen an entry's reflection and the earlier exchange is there to continue. Threads rest after two weeks (you can still read them; your next question starts a fresh one).

Your reader file

Rux keeps one small background note about you as a reader: what you tend to read for, threads you're working on, how you like to be answered, and the subjects your record keeps returning to. It's rewritten each week from your own themes, plus anything durable from finished conversations. It's about you, never a copy of your entries, and it stays private to your account. You don't have to talk to Rux for it to exist: capture enough and it writes itself.

You can read exactly what Rux has written there at Profile → Reader file, alongside the themes it was built from. Nothing on that page changes anything; it's a window, not a control panel. If you'd like Rux to drop all of it and start over, send feedback from the menu and we'll clear it for you. Your entries and conversations stay exactly as they are.

If Rux feels off-base, it can only work with what you've captured: thin record, thin reflections. It sharpens as your record grows.