The contents menu in the contents
window lists operations on the knowledge tree. To open this menu press Alt+F10 in
the contents window or right-click
over the selected branch of the knowledge tree. You can also press Apps Key
(context menu key left of the right Ctrl key).
The contents menu includes the following options:
- New
- Folder - create a dismissed
template-less topic, which can act as
a folder for holding other elements
- Item - create a new item as a child of the
selected element
- Topic - create a
new topic as a child of the selected element
- Child element - add a new element as a child of the currently
selected element. A child is an element that is one level down in the knowledge tree. The type of the element
is determined by the default type in the type combo box (at the top of
the contents window)
- Insert element (Ins) - insert a new element in the place
of the currently selected element (the current element moves one position down).
The type of the new element is determined by the default type in the
type combo box (at the top of the contents window)
- Category - create a new category in
the place
of the current selection. The newly created element becomes the root and the initial hook
of the new category. Category wizard will help you name the category and
choose its default templates
- Tasklist - create a new tasklist in the place of the current
selection. This option is identical to New : Category. The only
difference is that a new tasklist rooted in the created category will be
added to the tasklist registry
- View
- Element - bring the element window to the front and display there the
currently selected element
- Branch
-
put all descendants of the currently selected branch in the
element browser
- Children -
put all children of the currently selected branch in the
element browser
- Parent - go to the parent element of the
presently selected element
- First child - go to the
first child of the presently selected element
- Collapse - collapse the current branch
- Delete (Del) - delete the currently selected
element and all its children and descendants
(if any)
- Rename - rename the currently selected element
- Dismiss (Ctrl+D)
- dismiss the currently
selected element
- Learn
- make
repetitions on the currently selected branch and memorize pending elements belonging to the branch
- Search
- Find - find a string in the first title in
expanded branches below the currently selected element
- Find next - repeat the last search done
with Search : Find
- Search branch - search for a text in
the selected branch. All texts are considered in search (i.e. not only
titles)
- Category - options for managing categories
- Create - create a new category
- Convert branch
-
create a new category with the currently
selected element as the root. The category will take the
title of its root element as its name. You can change that to a shorter or more mnemonic
name. The currently selected element will also become the first hook of the category
- Set category root
-
make the currently selected element the root of the current category (the current category
is the category selected in category combo-box on the Tools
toolbar). The root is the element that is the ascendant of all elements in
the category
- Set category hook
-
make the currently selected element the hook of the current category (the current category
is the category selected in category combo-box on the Tools
toolbar). Once you change the hook, all newly added elements will be children
of the hook (only within the current category)
- Tools
- Regroup in folders - group all children in the branch into
a number of branches with equal number of children. Do not affect
further descendants. Unlike Arrange in folders, this option
preserves the structure of knowledge generated with incremental
reading
- Arrange in folders
-
group all elements in the branch into a number of branches with equal number of children.
For example, if your branch contains 100 elements, you can use Arrange in folders
to create 10 empty elements used as placeholders for the remaining items. Each of those
newly created elements will host 10 children. Thus all your 100 items will be grouped in
10 branches with 10 children each
- Transfer branch
- transfer the entire
branch to another collection. This option is similar to File : Merge
collection; however, only the selected branch is transferred
- Save as subset - save all elements in the
branch in an element subset (see: Using
subsets)
- Export as HTML - export the selected branch
to HTML. Not all component types can be exported. The component layout
is not preserved
- Export as text - export all elements in the
current branch as text
- Export learning - export the learning
process from all elements in the current branch. You can later use File : Tools :
Import : Learning process to import such a file to the same collection or a
subset collection derived from the original collection (e.g. generated to make repetition
on a notebook with limited space or performance)
- Random test - run a random test on all
elements in the selected branch
- Move empty elements - move all empty
elements to a selected branch in the collection. Empty elements are those that do not have
any components nor children
- Customize
- Font - change the font used in the contents
window
- Auto-scroll - scroll the contents window if
the mouse moves to the border of the window
- Sorted - keep the contents window sorted
alphabetically independent of the original order of elements in individual branches
- Process branch
-
operations on all children or all descendants of a given branch. Operations available from Process
branch are identical to those available from Process
browser on the browser pop-up menu
- Learning
- Reschedule -
reschedule all elements equally in a given period of time (e.g. make sure that all items
related to geography are rescheduled in equal portions of 20 items per day in the period
of one month). Please note that you might want to first choose Child : Outstanding
(see above) to make sure that you reschedule
only outstanding repetitions, i.e. not all repetitions in the entire branch.
You can also choose Child : Items to make sure you reschedule
only item repetitions
- Postpone - increase intervals of all outstanding
repetitions by a selected factor (e.g. 1.02 will increase intervals
by 2%). All intervals will increase proportionally but by no less
than 1 day
- Dilute - same as Postpone but with this difference
that all elements in the browser will be affected (not only
outstanding elements)
- Remember - memorize all elements that have
not yet been memorized
- Forget - remove all memorized elements from
the learning process and put them at the end of the pending
queue
- Dismiss - dismiss
all elements, i.e. ignore them in learning
- Undismiss - return all dismissed elements
to the pending queue
- Add to drill - add all elements to the final drill queue
- Reset history - reset the repetition
history of all elements
- Move
- Status
- Forgetting index -
change the forgetting index of all elements
- Set forgetting index - assign a given
forgetting index to all elements
- Default forgetting index - make all
elements use the default forgetting index. The default forgetting index is set with Tools : Options : Learning
: Forgetting index
- Ordinal - change the ordinal number of all elements
- Set ordinal - give all elements the same
given ordinal number
- Set position ordinal - give all elements
ordinal numbers equal to their physical position in the collection
(e.g. to sort the pending queue in the order of adding elements into the collection)
- Set pending ordinal
- give all elements
ordinal numbers equal to their position in the pending queue
- Set difficulty ordinal - give all elements ordinals derived from item difficulty (easier items will get lower ordinals).
This makes it possible, for example, to sort the pending queue in such a way that easy
elements come first in learning
- Spread ordinals - give all elements
ordinals increasing in equal steps from a given lower limit to a given higher limit
- Modify ordinal - increase or decrease
ordinal numbers of all elements
- Template - template operations
- Apply template - apply a selected template to all elements
in a given branch. Unlike in earlier versions of SuperMemo, this
operation is reversible. You can always apply a different template
or use Detach template on element pop-up
menu to remove the applied template from individual items
- Merge with template - merge all elements
with a given template (see Using templates).
This operations is similar to Apply template but it is not
reversible
- Add template - add a template to all
elements (see Using templates)
- Count - count all elements matching some
criteria in the whole set of elements
- Items - count all items (see also: Topics vs. items)
- Topics - count all topics (see also: Topics vs. items)
- Memorized - count all memorized elements
(i.e. elements that take part in repetitions)
- Pending - count all pending elements
- Dismissed - count all dismissed elements
- Burden - count the statistics that indicate
how much the considered elements contribute to the your learning workload (e.g. what
proportion of all memorized items is included in the set, what proportion of all
repetitions is contributed by the set, etc.)
- Set title - assign a given title to all
elements
- Process branch
-
operations on all children or all descendants of a given branch. For details see: subset
processing menu
- Close - close the contents window.
You can re-open the contents window by choosing Contents in the
element window