The Learn submenu of the main menu is available at middle and
professional levels and provides the following options:
- All stages - proceed with all
stages of the learning process: (1) review the outstanding material, (2)
learn new material, and (3) go through the final drill. In the
first stage, repetitions scheduled for the current day and
all preceding days are executed. In the second stage, new elements are memorized (if
available in the pending queue). In the third stage, final drill is executed in which all elements
that scored a grade below good (i.e. 4) are repeated until they all score at least good (final drill is executed only if Skip final drill
is unchecked in Options). Learn : All stages is equivalent to choosing the
button Learn at the bottom of the element window or pressing Ctrl+L
- Selected stages - execute only one of the
learning stages:
- Outstanding material - proceed with repetitions of
the outstanding material. Repetitions scheduled
for the current day and all preceding days are executed
- New material - memorize new material. Elements are
introduced in the learning process in the order in which they are stored in the pending queue
- Final drill - repeat only elements scheduled for the final drill, i.e. all elements that have scored less than Good
during earlier repetitions (or have been introduced to final drill manually)
- Sorting - sorting repetitions
- Auto-sort repetitions - make sure that repetitions are
automatically sorted at the beginning of the learning day. Sorting
ensure that high-priority elements are reviewed first and that only a
small proportion of topic is intermingled with repetitions of items
- Sorting criteria - determine the criteria used in sorting
repetitions: degree of randomization of the learning queue and the
proportion of topics in the queue
- Sort now - sort repetitions using criteria determined by Sorting
criteria (above)
- Postpone - postpone outstanding repetitions
or dilute the learning process
- Auto-postpone - make sure that repetitions that have not been
executed on previous days are automatically postponed to prevent
excessive accumulation of outstanding repetitions
- Topics - postpone all outstanding topics
- Items - postpone all outstanding items
- All - postpone all outstanding items, topics and tasks (i.e.
postpone all outstanding elements)
- Random
- Randomize repetitions (Ctrl+Shift+F11) - randomly mix all
outstanding repetitions scheduled for today. This option helps you better
understand the structure of the outstanding material and how to remedy
the backlog of repetitions. You should normally use learning in order of
priority, and only use Randomize
repetitions from time to time to glimpse at the distribution of
various pieces of knowledge independent of their priority. See also: Incremental
reading
- Random learning - learn new elements by randomly
reviewing the pending queue (compare Contents : Learn)
- Cut drills -
delete items
scheduled for final drill (i.e. the last stage of Learn
: All stages). Final drill elements are stored in the file <collection folder>\info\drill.dat. .
Cut drills
simply deletes this file and makes it possible to skip the final drill state. You can skip
the final drill if you have a great deal of outstanding
items. In such cases, catching up with the outstanding material is of
highest priority