At the top of the element window
you will find the element toolbar:

Here is the function of individual buttons on the element
toolbar:
- Contents - open the contents
window with the tree structure of knowledge stored
in your current collection
- Search - search for
texts in your collection
- Back (<) - move back to the most
recently visited element (same as Alt+Left)
- Ahead (>) - revisit elements that have
been viewed before with the button Back (<) (same
as Alt+Right)
- History - view the list of recently visited
elements
- Next - go to the next
element (interpretation of this button depends on the setting of Next button
options available from the Next button pull-down menu on the professional level)
- Home - go to the
root of the whole
collection, i.e. the element that is the parent of the whole knowledge
tree (same as pressing the Home key)
- Previous element - go to the previous
element in the contents window
- Parent - go to the parent of the currently
displayed element (same as Ctrl+Up)
- Next element - go to the next element in
the contents window
- End - go to the last element in the
knowledge tree in the contents window (same as pressing the End key)
- Paste (
)
- paste an article from the clipboard to SuperMemo (same as Ctrl+Alt+N)
- Extract topic button (
) -
extract the selected fragment of text for learning (same as Alt+X).
See: incremental reading for the importance of
extracting topics from articles
- Cloze item button (
)
- generate a cloze deletion item to convert a sentence into a
question-and-answer item (same as Alt+Z). See: incremental reading
for the explanation of the importance of cloze deletions
- E-mail button - forward the element via e-mail
- Reference link (
) - go to the source
element from which a given element has been extracted in the process of incremental reading.
By
clicking the Reference link button, you can go to the article from which a given
extract was taken. This button is not active in independent elements
- Instant transcription - turn on/off
providing phonetic transcription of texts when the mouse moves over the element window
- Instant translation - turn on/off
translating texts when the mouse moves over the element window
- Synchronize - turn on/off selecting the
currently displayed element in the contents window. Set this button in the down-state if
you want to always be able to see the position of the displayed element in the contents window
- Bug report - (only in the debugging version) send a
bug report via e-mail
Note that the element toolbar may not be visible if Tools : Options : Data
access : Hide navigation toolbar is checked