Help
on the main menu provides the
following options:
- Welcome - ABC - open the welcome
page of help with 3-minute ABC instructions for using SuperMemo
- Guide - open the step-by-step
guide with the most important steps towards mastering SuperMemo (one
month course)
- Contents - open the help's table
of contents
- Troubleshooter - open SuperMemo Troubleshooter
- FAQ - open the page
with the
most frequently asked questions about SuperMemo
- Hints and tips - open the
page with the most useful hints and tips
- Context (F1)
- open the page most relevant to the current context. For example, if you are in
the contents window, pressing F1 will open
the contents window page
- Web
- On-line help - open the help file
directly from the SuperMemo Website. You can use this option if you cannot find
what you are looking for and hope that the updated version of help will be of better assistance
- Search - search the net for articles about a
problem with SuperMemo
- Search Groups - search Google Groups for
messages about SuperMemo
- News - open the news page on the SuperMemo
Website
- FAQ - open the FAQ page on the SuperMemo
Website
- E-mail
- Support - open this
page on the web
- Bug report - send a bug report. Remember to
always use this option to ensure your system data and the bug
context are included
- Questionnaire - fill out and e-mail
your feedback form. This way you can bank on better support and
better SuperMemo software in the
future
- Recommend SuperMemo - recommend SuperMemo to
a friend via e-mail
- Question of the Day -
equivalent of the tip of the day in other programs. In SuperMemo, tips are formulated as
simple questions-and-answers. If you decide to introduce some tips into the learning
process, just click the button Remember in the Question of the
Day dialog box. If you think a tip is not worth knowing, click Delete.
Note that tips in SuperMemo are a mini-metaphor of the SuperMemo paradigm!
- About - dialog box with
the release date of your current SuperMemo. Click Choose picture to
change the picture displayed when SuperMemo starts up. If you downloaded SuperMemo from a franchising website, you will also
find here the address of your local distributor and information about technical support in
your native language; click the underlined reseller's name
If the help file smhelp.chm is not present in the bin subfolder, SuperMemo will attempt to open the up-to-date
help material available from the SuperMemo Website. If
the file is present and SuperMemo still attempts to connect, choose Tools : Options : SuperMemo
: Help system : Microsoft Help (CHM) (the default option Optimize
will attempt to connect you to updated help as soon as CHM file becomes outdated)
Important!
You can always use the compiled
contents of SuperMemo Website to update your help file.
For that purpose do the following:
- Go to help download page
- Download the most up-to-date smhelp.chm file
- Copy this file in place of smhelp.chm file in the bin subfolder