Learn to Use the Tree of Knowledge

Most important detail: Just like in Windows, drag and drop things into folders! Use the BLUE BUTTON to drag-and-drop multiple items into another folder. Learn more!: http://www.supermemo.com/help/tree.htm Using Categories: http://www.supermemo.com/help/tree.htm#Building_the_tree_using_categories

Category:

Education

Tags:

• tutorial
• supermemo
• learning
• speed-learning
• retention
• spaced repetition software
• anki
• incremental reading

[JelloFaust]

Thanks for the video! I learned that no matter the organization in the tree, SuperMemo will pick things "out of order." My next question, then, is it possible to have SuperMemo test more frequently in a certain topic? What I've done is imported material that I eventually need to learn through the course of a whole semester. I rather not be questioned on material that I don't need to learn for a few moths and focus my time on pertinent material. Is that possible?

[solvingtime]

@JelloFaust Variations of this question come up pretty often actually! It sounds like you just want to add some info now but not learn it until later. Therefore, on the "branch" of whatever you want to delay for now, you can right-click, then click either Branch Operations or the Learn category (these instructions vary depending on what version you're using). Then find the button that says "Forget" and the items will automatically be taken out of your learning process. =]

[JelloFaust]

@solvingtime Okay, great! That works well. Then, when the time comes that I need to move that material into my learning curve, I can just select that. Cool, thanks!

[solvingtime]

@JelloFaust Np, have fun!

[withoutanotherwoman]

@solvingtime Thanks for the tip on filters. The magazine as a single topic was too big even for that one!

I don't yet want to start using postpone. I've got the articles on the pending queue, and I'm keeping a close eye on scheduled reps (ctrl-w) to make sure I don't swamp myself with extracts. If The Economist gets less interesting than other items in pending, then I'll forget it to the end of the queue or randomize pending. If it gets stale, I'll dismiss it.

[solvingtime]

@withoutanotherwoman In the 2008 version, I have auto-postpone turned on to moderate settings, but I do feel like I lose a degree of control too.

[solvingtime]

@withoutanotherwoman One more thing: 100 new topics imported just like that would overwhelm and discourage me. Perhaps you should just read them traditionally and only save the tastiest, most insight paragraphs. Last June I tried to meticulously mark up the paper versions of The Economist with the intent of extracting some underlined sentences into SuperMemo. It was a pain in the butt! Most of the time a quick bookmark in "Delicious" suffices for me.

[solvingtime]

@withoutanotherwoman Oh cool! that sounds like a great solution! If you open up an HTML in SuperMemo, you can push F6 to quickly access the filters, which makes it work a lot faster

[withoutanotherwoman]

@solvingtime Found a [should be simpler] solution. I used "Edit File" from SM's Component Menu (ctrl-f9) to open the single-page version in vi and then used a global substitute to insert ###SplitMark### before the html tag designating an individual Economist article. It took SM about 15 minutes to perform the split (RAM usage went > 900MB), but I now have 100 content-only referenced articles representing the full print edition, and "Remember Extract" no longer takes 13 seconds to run!

[withoutanotherwoman]

@solvingtime I use calibre ebook manager to collect the entire "print edition" RSS for weekly reading on a Kindle. Calibre's great because it filters out nav bars and other decorations irrelevant to reading. I can import that as a single page into SM (~48,000 words), but I like how you've split each magazine article into its own element. I'll keep tinkering and follow up if I find a simple solution.