The Learn submenu on the main menu provides the following options:
- All stages - proceed with all stages of learning:
outstanding material, new material and 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 third and final stage, final drill is executed in which all elements
that scored a grade below good (i.e. 4) are repeated as long as it takes for all of them
to score at least good. Learn : All stages is equivalent to choosing the
button Learn at the bottom of the element window
- Selected stages - execute only one of the tree
learning stages
- Reading list - pick the highest priority article from
the reading list. Use this option to read new material
and convert it to knowledge that can effectively be remembered with SuperMemo
(see also: Incremental reading)
- 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 to the learning process in the order 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)
- Random
- Randomize repetitions (Ctrl+Shift+F11)- randomly mix all
outstanding repetitions schedule for today. Once you realize you are not
able to keep up with the outstanding material, using Randomize
repetitions is recommended. This option helps you better
understand the structure of the outstanding material and how to remedy
the backlog in the future. It also prevents discriminating material
against the length of the inter-repetition material
- Random learning - learn new elements by randomly
reviewing the entire collection (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 often takes priority