Browser toolbar appears at the top of the browser
window.
Here are the functions of individual buttons from left to
right:
- Main menu - open the browser menu otherwise available with
a right-click over
the browser window
-
Subset menu - open a
subset processing menu with
operations on browser elements (same as Process browser
on the browser menu available with a right-click)
- Align - align the browser
window with the element window for convenient review of elements in the browser.
Note that
Synchronize button (below)
must be down for displaying elements in
the element window as the selection changes in the browser
- Review - review all material in the browser, e.g. before an exam
(including elements that are not outstanding)
- Topic review - review all topics in the browser (including
non-outstanding topics)
- Memorized - open a new browser will all
memorized elements included in the present browser
- Items - open a new browser with all items included in the present browser
- Topics - open a new browser with all topics
included in the present browser
- Checked - open a child browser with all checked
elements (checkmarks can be seen in the leftmost column of the browser). For
example, in the picture, items related to WW2 have been checked in the
browser and can be opened in a new browser with by clicking the button Checked
- Unchecked - open a child browser with all unchecked
elements
- Sources - open sources of all elements in the
browser. Sources are top-most topics from which sub-topics, extracts,
sentences, cloze deletions and/or Q&A items have been generated in incremental
reading
- Sort - sort the browser by the position of its
elements in the contents tree (root first, first child of the root second,
etc.)
- Schedule repetitions button - save the content of the browser in
today's repetition schedule. You will most likely want to use this button
for optimizing the sequence of outstanding repetitions. You may, for
example, begin the sequence with short-interval items, or with difficult
items, or with most severely delayed items, or with long-interval topics,
etc.
- Advance topics - shorten the interval of topics
listed in the browser. If you, for example, specify the maximum interval as
100, all topics with longer interval will receive intervals randomly
dispersed within the 1..100 range. Topics with intervals shorter than 100
will remain untouched. Advance topics executes mid-interval
repetition on the affected topics (unlike Advance items)
- Advance items - shorten the intervals of items
listed in the browser. If you, for example, specify the maximum interval as
1000, all items with interval longer than 1000 will receive intervals
randomly shortened so that to schedule a repetition between today or the day
when the interval reaches 1000 days. All items repeated before 1000 days
ago, will be scheduled for repetition today. Unlike Advance topics, Advance
items shortens intervals without executing a mid-interval repetition
(which would be illegal from the learning process standpoint as no
repetition can be considered executed without you actually reviewing it). Important!
Abusing this option can lead to serious side effects in learning such as
inadvertently sending important items to very long intervals by lumped
repetition of similar items in a very short period of time
- Postpone - postpone all outstanding
elements included in the browser
- Randomize button - randomly mix up the
contents of the browser. You can, for example, randomize the browser before
scheduling its content for repetition with Schedule repetitions (above)
- Apply template - apply a selected template to all elements in the
browser
- Insert picture - add a selected picture to all elements in the
browser
- Spread priorities - set the priority of all elements in the browser
(increase, decrease, or spread within a selected range)
- Save subset - save the browser into a subset file
- View - display the currently
selected element in the element window. Note that you will not need
this button if the Synchronize button (below) is down, in
which case the element
window will always display the element currently selected in the browser
- Find - search for texts in the
title column starting from the currently selected element
- Synchronize button
- makes sure that each time you change the selection in the browser,
the selected element is displayed in the element window.
When this button is up, changing the selection in the browser has no effect
on the content of the element window
- Locate - find in the browser the element that is currently displayed in the element window. Note that you will not need
this button if the Synchronize button (below) is down, in
which case the element window will always display the element currently
selected in the browser