Most important operations on the knowledge tree displayed in the contents window are available from the contents pop-up
menu. To open this menu press Alt+F10 or right-click
over the contents window.
The contents pop-up menu includes the following options:
- View
- New
- Category - create a new category in place
of the current selection. The newly created element becomes the root and the initial hook
of the new category
- Folder - create a dismissed topic acting as
a folder for holding more elements and add the first item as a child of the folder
- Element - insert a new element in the place
of the currently selected element (the current element moves one position down)
- Child element - add a new element as a child of the currently
selected element (a child is an element that is one level down in the knowledge tree)
- Sibling element - add a new element as a sibling of the currently selected element (a sibling is an
element is is on the same level in the knowledge tree)
- Delete - delete the currently selected
element and all its children (if any)
- Edit
- Edit title - edit the title of the
currently selected element (note that you can also edit the title in-place if you click
the currently selected element)
- Dismiss element - dismiss the current
element (Ctrl+D)
- Learn - make
repetitions for the selected branch and memorize pending elements belonging to the branch
- Search - search for titles
- Find - find a string in the first title in
expanded branches below the currently selected element
- Find next - repeat the last search done
with Search : Find
- Category - options for managing contents categories
- Make category -
create a new contents category with the currently
selected element as the root. The category will take the
title of its root element as its name. You can change that to a shorter or more mnemonic
name. The currently selected element will also become the first hook of the category
- Set category root -
make the currently selected element the root of the current category (the current category
is the category selected in category combo-box on the Tools
toolbar). The root is the element that is the ascendant of all elements in
the category
- Set category hook -
make the currently selected element the hook of the current category (the current category
is the category selected in category combo-box on the Tools
toolbar). Once you change the hook, all newly added elements will be children
of the hook (only within the current category)
- Tools
- Arrange in folders -
group all elements in the branch into a number of branches with equal number of children.
For example, if your branch contains 100 elements, you can use Arrange in folders
to create 10 empty elements used as placeholders for the remaining items. Each of those
newly created elements will host 10 children. Thus all your 100 items will be grouped in
10 branches with 10 children each
- Transfer branch - transfer the entire
branch to another collection. If you select the master element (the root of the knowledge
tree) the whole collection can be transferred to another collection. This option is very
useful in merging a number of collections in one!
- Save as subset - save all elements in the
branch in an element subset (see: Using
subsets)
- Export as text - export all elements in the
current branch as text
- Export learning - export the learning
process from all elements in the current branch. You can later use File : Tools :
Import : Learning process to import such a file to the same collection or a
subset collection derived from the original collection (e.g. generated to make repetition
on a notebook with limited space or performance)
- Random test - run a random test on all
elements in the selected branch
- Move empty elements - move all empty
elements to a selected branch in the collection. Empty elements are those that do not have
any components nor children
- Customize
- Font - change the font used in the contents
window
- Auto-scroll - scroll the contents window if
the mouse moves to the border of the window
- Sorted - keep the contents window sorted
alphabetically independent of the original order of elements in individual branches
- Process branch -
operations on all children or all descendants of a given branch
- Learning
- Reschedule - reschedule all elements
equally in a given period of time (e.g. make sure that all items related to geography are
rescheduled in equal portions of 20 items per day in the period of one month)
- Remember - memorize all elements that have
not yet been memorized
- Forget - remove all memorized elements from
the learning process and put them at the end of the pending
queue
- Dismiss - dismiss
all elements, i.e. ignore them in learning
- Undismiss - return all dismissed elements
to the pending queue
- Add to drill - add all elements to the final drill queue
- Reset history - reset the repetition
history of all elements
- Move
- Status
- Forgetting index -
change the forgetting index of all elements
- Set forgetting index - assign a given
forgetting index to all elements
- Default forgetting index - make all
elements use the default forgetting index. The default forgetting index is set with Tools : Options : Learning
: Forgetting index
- Ordinal - change the ordinal number of all elements
- Set ordinal - give all elements the same
given ordinal number
- Set position ordinal - give all elements
ordinal numbers equal to their physical position in the collection
(e.g. to sort the pending queue in the order of adding elements into the collection)
- Set pending ordinal - give all elements
ordinal numbers equal to their position in the pending queue
- Set difficulty ordinal - give all elements ordinals derived from item difficulty (easier items will get lower ordinals).
This makes it possible, for example, to sort the pending queue in such a way that easy
elements come first in learning
- Spread ordinals - give all elements
ordinals increasing in equal steps from a given lower limit to a given higher limit
- Modify ordinal - increase or decrease
ordinal numbers of all elements
- Template - template operations
- Merge with template - merge all elements
with a given template (see Using templates)
- Add template - add a template to all
elements (see Using templates)
- Count - count all elements matching some
criteria in the whole set of elements
- Items - count all items (see also: Topics vs. items)
- Topics - count all topics (see also: Topics vs. items)
- Memorized - count all memorized elements
(i.e. elements that take part in repetitions)
- Pending - count all pending elements
- Dismissed - count all dismissed elements
- Burden - count the statistics that indicate
how much the considered elements contribute to the your learning workload (e.g. what
proportion of all memorized items is included in the set, what proportion of all
repetitions is contributed by the set, etc.)
- Set title - assign a given title to all
elements
- Close - close the contents window (you can
later bring it back with Contents in the element window)