Glossary:Element
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element - a single page stored in SuperMemo (e.g. question-and-answer pair). All elements kept together are called a collection. Elements may have the form of topics (synthetic material, articles, etc.), items (testing material) or tasks (elements representing to-do tasks, e.g. articles to read). A topic synthetically presents a larger part of the learning material, e.g. description of the anatomy of the brain or an article about brain physiology. Items provide specific testing questions or exercises for drilling the material presented in topics, e.g. How thick is the cerebral cortex? In the simplest case, topics have a form of a page of text while items are formulated as questions and answers (see: Topics vs. Items). Every element is represented in the contents window as a single leaf of the knowledge tree. The content of individual elements is displayed in the element window (see: Element window)
