Read toolbar

You can display the Read toolbar in the following 2 basic ways (both require you switch SuperMemo to either middle or professional level):

• In the learnbar, click the Reading options button, or
• Choose Window : Toolbars : Read from the main menu

Toolbar buttons

• Close toolbar - hides the Read subbar, and shows the main learnbar back. Note that the button is only visible when the toolbar is docked to the learnbar. It is not showed when the toolbar is docked to the toolbar dock nor when it is floating.
• Paste article (Ctrl+N) - paste a new article from the clipboard to the current collection
• Remember extract (Alt+X) - use the selected part of the text to create a new element and introduce this new element into the learning process. This is one of the most important options used in incremental reading. Use Alt+X on a selected text to tell SuperMemo that it is important and you want to better remember it in the future
• Schedule extract (Shift+Alt+X) - use the selected text to create a new topic and schedule its review on a selected day with a selected priority. Schedule extract is the same as Remember extract but you can manually select the first interval, priority, and more
• Remember cloze (Alt+Z) - create a new cloze deletion element based on the current text selection and memorize this element.

  Example: You can convert the following sentence:

  In 1947 the UN voted to divide Palestine into Arab and Jewish states

  to question:

  In 1947 the UN voted to divide Palestine into Arab and [...] states

  by:

  1. selecting the word Jewish and
  2. choosing Cloze (or pressing Alt+Z).

  In addition to Extract (above), this is the most important option of incremental reading.

• Schedule cloze - create a new cloze deletion and place it at the end of the pending queue
• Task extract - use the selected part of the text to create a new task and put this element on the current tasklist
• Split article - split the article into multiple topics by using splitmarks. This can substantially accelerate decomposition of very long articles that load slowly and are processed slowly by SuperMemo
• E-mail (Shift+Ctrl+E) - send the selected text via e-mail
• E-mail FAQ - use the selected text as the basis of an FAQ question, and send the answer to the question's author. Your response will automatically be added to an FAQ file of your choice. All FAQs at SuperMemo Website have been created by means of E-mail FAQ
• Highlight - highlight the currently selected text
• Change highlight style - change the highlight style (i.e. font, font style, font size, font color, and text highlight color)
• Ignore (Shift+Ctrl+I) - ignore the selected text in reading by marking it with the ignore font
• Delete before cursor (Shift+Ctrl+Space) - delete texts before the cursor (e.g. after processing it)
• Delete after cursor (Shift+Ctrl+Z) - delete texts after the cursor without references (e.g. notes)
• Set read-point (Ctrl+F7) - mark the selected text as the point from which you will resume reading the next time you return to the presented article. In incremental reading, you rarely need to use Set read-point as all extract and cloze operations will automatically set the read-point for you
• Go to read-point (Alt+F7) - go to the text that has been selected as the read-point
• Clear read-point (Shift+Ctrl+F7) - remove the read-point from the currently processed text