Rux Notes: a study note from your own entries

A 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.

Making one

Tap Make, in the box under the heading of an entry or a book's page, and choose A study note; Make walks through the menu. A single entry gives a short note; a book's page, a summary sheet from every entry filed under it, oldest first. There is no minimum; one entry makes a short note.

How much Rux adds

The slider has four stops. It starts at Just my words, and you can leave it there.

• Just my words. Only what you said, organized into a note. Rux adds nothing.
• A little context. Rux adds short definitions and background where a term needs one.
• Study sheet. Rux adds examples and connections between your entries.
• Exam prep. Rux adds review questions and key terms to study from.

As you slide right, the little sheet above the slider gains dashed panels, showing the proportion of your words to Rux's before anything is made. Rux may add less than a stop allows, and often will.

What the marks mean

Everything Rux adds sits in a dashed panel with a small dark tag, Rux added this, and the kind of addition: background, a definition, an example, a connection, or a review item. Your words are set in the app's serif face; Rux's additions in the plain sans of its buttons. All three cues survive a photocopy.

Every paragraph in your own words ends with a small number pointing to From your entries at the foot of the note, which lists the date of each entry it was built from. Every line has been checked against your words first; a line that cannot be traced back to what you said is left out rather than shown.

Diagrams

Where your entries already have a shape, the note may draw it: a sequence, a comparison, a timeline, linked ideas, or a loop. Diagrams are drawn from your words only; an element Rux adds at a higher stop has a dashed outline and a small Rux tag. Most notes have no diagram.

Reading, saving, printing

The note opens in the app. From there:

• Share as PDF makes a paginated PDF and hands it to the iOS share sheet, to save to Files, send, or print. Headings never end a page and diagrams never split.
• Save as images turns the note into pictures sized for your phone screen, one per screen. Swipe through them, save them all to Photos, or share one page. Ruxpin only asks to add to your photos, never to read them.
• Share a card makes an image for a feed or a story, square or tall. A card carries one line in your own words and the book's title. Nothing Rux added ever goes on a card.
• Delete removes the note. Your entries stay; only the note goes.

A note sits on the page it was made from, under the title, as a small paper card; tap it to reopen. Every note is also kept under Rux Notes in your profile.

After you tap Read on a note you have just made, iOS may ask you to rate Ruxpin. The dialog is Apple's: it appears at most three times a year, never in the week after you send feedback, and you can switch it off under Settings, App Store, In-App Ratings & Reviews.

What is sent

Making a note sends the text of the entries you chose, and the book's title and author, to the same AI service every other Ruxpin feature uses. Turning a finished note into a PDF or an image happens on our own servers and sends nothing further. AI processing and your OK has the whole disclosure, and the same permission screen appears here if you had said not now before.

Rux Notes is part of your subscription and your free month; nothing extra to buy.