You can now add ruby (furigana) to note articles!

You can now add ruby (furigana) to note!

There are many ways to use it, such as in articles with difficult kanji or place names, articles for children, or novels. It expands the range of your expression!

To use it, enter a "" (vertical bar) at the start of the text you want to add ruby to, and " " (double angle brackets) at the end, then enter the ruby inside the "《 》".

Note: You cannot use bold text inside ruby notation. If you want to make it bold, please bold the entire string including the ruby notation as shown below.

This feature was previously released early to note premium members so that we could develop it based on your feedback. With this improvement, it is now available to everyone!

Expressing yourself on note with ruby

During the experimental release, many notes with ruby were already being posted. There were many creative ways to use ruby. Here are a few examples for your reference!

■ The poster for the 1st National Census is interesting

It seems that the poster for the national census 100 years ago had ruby on every word, perhaps out of consideration for people who could not read kanji. It is interesting that the way the readings are assigned, such as for "survey items," is completely different from today. It was written by making maximum use of the ruby feature!

■ Poem: Takigi Noh (with ruby)

This is a free verse poem that begins with "What lies beyond the blowing wind," and has a somewhat alluring expression. The ruby feature was used to direct how the words are read, such as in "bleeding through the blood" and "crimson."

■ Experiment with ruby (furigana) support on note

This is an article written by note CXO Fukatsu as the first experiment of the ruby feature. It is packed with "ruby tricks" such as "adult circumstances" and "freedom." It also covers the behind-the-scenes story of the development, such as "Why wasn't there ruby until now?", so please take a look if you are interested.

Improving based on your feedback

Thank you to everyone who tried it out during the early release for premium members! During the early release, we received a lot of feedback on note and social media.

Also, we have received many requests regarding the functionfunction, and in response, we have made improvements to several featuresfeatures. (Thank you to everyone who provided feedback!)

[RequestRequest①] I want to add ruby to past articlesarticles

→ We have improved it so that the ruby notationnotation is newly reflected even when you edit articlesarticles from before the release of the ruby functionfunction!

[RequestRequest②] I want you to support special charactersspecial characters as well

→ We have improved it so that ruby can be added to somesome special charactersspecial characters!

[RequestRequest③] The notationnotation symbolssymbols appear in emails and OGP, making it hard to read

→ We are currently working on it so that the ruby partpart is omitted in emails and OGP (the imagesimages displayed on Twitter, etc.)!

Even after this general releasegeneral release, we are still collectingcollecting feedback on the ruby functionfunction. If you would like to provide opinionsopinions to help us improve the ruby functionfunction together, please let us know via the feedback form, or on Twitter or note with "#noteimprovement"!

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We are consideringconsidering improvement itemsimprovement items based on the opinionsopinions and requestsrequests of our creators. We will continue to createcreate an environmentenvironment where it is easy to engage in creative activitiescreative activities, so please let us hear your opinionsopinions.

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Adding ruby (furigana)