The Tools submenu on the main menu provides the following options:
Tools menu items
Commander
- Commander (Ctrl+Enter) – choose a SuperMemo command to execute
Workload
- Workload (Ctrl+W) – the daily and the monthly calendar of repetitions.
Sleep Chart
- Sleep Chart (F12) – record of repetition and/or sleep blocks that will help you see your timing pattern in learning and sleeping
Plan
- Plan (Ctrl+P) – a schedule manager that will help you plan your time by adjusting proportions of time you spend on individual activities
Mercy
- Mercy (Shift+Alt+M) – a dialog box that makes it possible to reschedule repetitions (e.g. before or after a holiday break). Use Mercy only if you want to redistribute the outstanding material in a selected period of time. If you cannot cope with material overload, you should rather use Postpone
Tasklist
- Tasklist (F4) – a tasklist manager to sort or edit the current tasklist
Statistics
- Statistics
- Statistics – a window with the main statistics of the learning process
- Element data – a window with the statistics related to the current element. This window also displays the repetition statistics after a repetition
- Analysis (Shift+Alt+A) – a dialog box with various statistics related to the learning process and the SuperMemo Algorithm
- Simulation – a dialog box that makes it possible to simulate the course of learning over many years using real data collected during repetitions (see: Theoretical aspects of SuperMemo). Please note that for a low value of the forgetting index, the simulation procedure may be inaccurate (see: FAQ)
- Report – generate a text file with statistics displayed in the statistics window
- Reset parameters
- Forgetting index record – reset the record of repetition grades used in computing the measured forgetting index
- Forgetting index vs priority record – reset the record of the forgetting index measured for different priority categories (as visible in Tools : Statistics : Analysis : Graphs : Forgetting Index vs. Priority)
- First grade vs A-Factor record – reset the record of the correlation between between first grades and A-Factors
- Average response time – reset the record of the average time it takes to respond to questions in your collection
- Optimization matrices – reset the optimization matrices used in the learning process (RF, OF, repetition cases, forgetting curves, etc.)
Randomize
- Randomize
- Drill – randomize the final drill queue
- Pending – randomize the pending queue
Random test
- Random test – run random repetitions on various subsets of the current collection (random repetitions do not count in the learning process). The following tests can be found on the Random test submenu:
- Resume test
- All (Alt+F11) – run a random test on all elements
- Pending – run a random test on pending elements
- Memorized – run a random test on memorized elements
- Dismissed – run a random test on dismissed elements
- Topics – run a random test on topics
- Items – run a random test on items
- Filter – use element filter and run a random test on a subset of filtered elements
- Leeches – run a random test on difficult elements)
- Subset – run a random test on a selected element subset
- Branch – run a random test on the currently selected branch in the contents window
Random review
- Random review (F11) – randomly review elements in the current collection
Options
- Options (Alt+O) – open a tabbed dialog box with options such as default interface font, default forgetting index, path to files on the CD-ROM, translation language, etc.
