Web import

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With Edit : Import web pages : All (Shift+Ctrl+A) you can quickly import a number of web pages, pictures, or YouTube videos from Internet Explorer.

SuperMemo: Importing articles about clathrate gun hypothesis from Wikipedia for incremental learning

In the picture above, 5 Wikipedia articles about clathrate gun hypothesis are available for wholesale import into SuperMemo (for easy use in incremental reading). 4 of the articles are selected for import. The selected articles will be imported into the current category and their priority will fall between 0.1% and 2%. Individual Internet Explorer tabs/windows displaying the selected articles will get closed in the process.

SuperMemo: Importing videos featuring Richard Dawkins from YouTube for incremental learning

In the picture above, 8 YouTube videos featuring Richard Dawkins are available and selected for automatic import into SuperMemo (for easy use with Incremental video). The selected videos will be imported as children of a newly added element titled "Richard Dawkins" and stamped with the current date and time. The priority of the imported videos will fall in the range of 1-3%. Individual Internet Explorer tabs/windows holding the selected videos will get closed after import.

Here goes a detailed breakdown of the Import web pages dialog box:

  • Title - this will be used in the Source field of the reference area that is automatically created for imported articles. Additionally, if you choose Location : Node (below), the import title and the import date/time will form the title of the node that will parent the imported articles
  • Articles - the list of pages or pictures that are currently opened in Internet Explorer. If you do not exactly recall what a given page or picture presents, you can quickly switch to the Internet Explorer tab/window in which it is displayed by double-clicking its title in the list
  • Web page import mode determines the way in which pages or pictures are imported:
    • Links (only links will be imported) - imports only web addresses of individual pages with each link going into a separate SuperMemo element (compare: Page of links (one element keeps all links))
    • Page of links (one element keeps all links) - imports only web addresses of individual pages with all links going as a list into a single SuperMemo element (compare: Links (only links will be imported))
    • Local pages (elements hold whole web pages) - imports entire pages into separate SuperMemo elements. Note that while pages will be located on your hard disk, the pictures they include will not. If you want to localize all or selected embedded pictures, choose Download images (Ctrl+F8) from the component menu available by right-clicking over the article in SuperMemo.
    • Local pages with local images - imports whole pages into separate SuperMemo elements along with all the pictures they contain. The pictures are then displayed on the left of their respective imported pages. Note that you can instruct SuperMemo on the minimum size of the picture and the maximum number of pictures included on a given page that will actually get imported into SuperMemo (see below).
    • Local images only - imports only pictures from individual pages with pictures from a given page going into a separate SuperMemo element (compare: Page of images)
    • Page of images - imports only pictures from individual pages with all pictures going into a single SuperMemo element (compare: Local images only)
    • Live pages (links that open remote pages) - imports only web addresses of individual pages with each link going into a separate SuperMemo element. The basic difference between this mode and Links (only links will be imported) (above) is that when you enter the element with a live page, SuperMemo automatically opens the link to the page it contains (as opposed to you explicit clicking the imported link in case of the latter option)
  • Filter shows only a selected subset of pages or pictures that are currently opened in Internet Explorer
    • All - shows all pages or pictures
    • Wikipedia - shows only Wikipedia articles that you can read incrementally in SuperMemo (this is equivalent to choosing Edit : Import web pages : Wikipedia (Shift+Ctrl+W))
    • YouTube - shows only YouTube videos that you can watch incrementally in SuperMemo (this is equivalent to choosing Edit : Import web pages : YouTube (Shift+Ctrl+Y))
  • Location determines the location in the contents window where selected pages or pictures will be imported
    • Current - the selected items will be imported into the SuperMemo element that is currently displayed in the element window (this option only becomes available if you select the Page of images web page import node (above))
    • Node - the selected items will be imported as children of a newly added element. Note that you can specify the title for this element using the Title field at the top of the dialog box (above)
    • Category - the selected items will be imported as children of the currently selected category. Note that you can change the current category using the category combo box (first from the left)(Ctrl+Alt+C) in the Tools toolbar
    • Child - the selected items will be imported as children of the current SuperMemo element
  • Priority determines the priority of automatically imported pages or pictures. The priority will fall within the specified range
    • Minimum priority - specifies the priority at the low end of the range (as percentage)
    • Maximum priority - specifies the priority at the high end of the range (as percentage)
  • Pictures determines the restrictions on imported pictures (this option only becomes available for Local pages with local images, Local images only, and Page of images web page import modes). If no picture included in the imported page satisfies the import criteria, the largest picture will still get imported.
    • Min. picture size - the minimum file size (in bytes) of the imported picture. If the picture is smaller, it will be ignored
    • Maximum pictures - the maximum number of imported pictures per page that can be imported into a single element. Only the first n pictures that satisfy the above file size criterion will be imported
  • Buttons
    • Select All - selects all check boxes in the article list
    • Import - imports selected item(s) from the list into SuperMemo
    • Cancel - closes this dialog box without importing anything
    • Swap selection - inverts the current selection (i.e. the selected check boxes get unselected, while the unselected ones get selected)
    • Close selected - closes Internet Explorer tabs/windows of selected item(s)
    • Close all - closes all the Internet Explorer tabs/windows which are available in the list
  • Close browser check box - if you select this checkbox, all the items from the list will be closed in Internet Explorer once their links or contents have been imported into SuperMemo
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