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- If you do not find an answer, you can add your question below in the New Questions category.
FAQs
- ABC
- Learning
- Incremental reading
- Incremental learning
- Formulating knowledge
- The Algorithm
- Import, Export and Data formats
- Installation
- Handhelds
- Technical FAQs
- Problems, Errors and Bugs
- Licensing SuperMemo Algorithm
- SuperMemo 2000-2012
- Shopping
FAQ Archive
Most often asked questions about most often asked questions
- Why don't you answer my e-mails?
- I have been waiting for 2 weeks for my answer to be posted at this site
- You forgot to paste the answer
- How do I post a follow-up to the answer that does not fully answer my question
New Questions
- SafeSuperMemo PowerShell script for Dropbox with automated backups
- How can I use Supermemo for non-technical books?
- Can images be edited outside of SuperMemo without issue?
- Is there any harm to nesting categories?
- What are the YouTube API changes that threaten incremental video in all versions of SuperMemo?
- How exactly does Spread work?
- Importing Wikipedia articles containing math
- Keyboard shortcuts for subscript and superscript?
- Keyboard shortcut to find images by name in registry?
- How to postpone elements into a time window?
- Impose template?
- How to best learn synonyms in a foreign language?
- How to best prepare for differential diagnosis with SM?
- Various questions about general supermemo operation
- How to join beta-testing of the new version?
- Memorizing 10K+ pages
- Cloze deletions stopped working overnight
- How to go from Cloze Deletions, Items and Topics to a Q&A template?
- Invalid outstanding elements in collection
- Problems with incremental video
- How to bring back cloze word highlights
- Will deleting items hurt SM repetition scheduling
- Combining two collections and learning data
- Incremental reading: turning cloze statements into questions
- Categories - current category
- Wikipedia pages are slow to load
- Problems with move to category
- Problems with pasting images
- Getting sleep by just closing eyes
- How to learn elements in a specific sequence?
- Deleting many sounds files an once
- Problems with the folder structure in the elements folder
- What burden parameter really means?
- Wrong collection opens at restart
- Is large number of outstanding items require specific action?
- Why does Duplicate create a child?
- Element window size change sometimes alter components size and sometimes not.
- Disappearing spaces when copy reference
- Additional text characters after pressing alt a
- How to propagate references after an articles has already been processed (extracts or clozes)
- Nothing more to learn, but there are still outstanding elements.
- I keep getting Nothing more to learn while Workload shows outstanding items
- SuperMemo error: The device name is already used as an alias for this application. Use a unique alias.
- Priority bias in Alertness (H)
- Pasting images into an HTML component does not always work
- SuperMemo error: Cannot locate first child
- SuperMemo error: SuperMemo error: Wrong repetition distribution for category no 1
- SuperMemo error: Element missing from the priority queue
- Is there a limit to the amount of text you can put in one topic?
- Problem memorizing freshly imported items
- Localizing images across the entire collection
- SuperMemo and Medical School
- Media junkies vs SuperMemo
- Copy collection vs Quick backup
- How do breaks in learning affect the repetition schedule and priority queue in SuperMemo?
- Switching my learning process to SuperMemo
- What extension can be imported with files and folders import?
- How to select many elements in the browser?
- Reference problem when editing items
- Wrong value in the first grade graph
- Problems after deleting a background image
- After impose template, font change still affects many elements
- How to transfer my notes to iPad?
- Incremental video is less incremental than incremental reading
- How do I convert a group of items into tasks?
- Version compatibility
- Can I use incremental listening on MP3 files?
- Splitting acitivities in Plan
- What is the difference between "local pages (elements hold whole web pages)" and "local pages with local images" in Wikipedia import?
- Strange behavior in occlusion test
- Cloze deletions in nested extracts
- Wrong data in Workload
- Item title editing inconsistency?
- Converting a branch into category does not convert all descendants
- What is the best encoding for saving a Q&A text file when editing it in Notepad2?
- Graphic cloze deletion changes size
- Newly made questions are going straight to final drill without giving me the chance to rate their recall? confused
- When I add new items they are immediately memorized
- Startup interval is too long
- Is there any possible way to automatically import all the wikipedia articles of a given language into Supermemo at once?
- Duplicates show immediately after originals
- What do you suggest writing in the title bar for extracts of extracts converted to cloze deletions?
- After converting a SuperMemo16 collection into SuperMemo17, the Buttons 'Answer' and 'Display At' are greyed out.
New questions (dynamic list)
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