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The Edit submenu of the main menu makes it possible to add new elements, enrich them with components (e.g. sounds or pictures), delete elements, edit elements, and more. The Edit submenu is available only after you enter the Middle or Professional levels (with File : Level).

Edit menu items

Here are the options on the Edit submenu:

Add a new item

Add a new item (Alt+A) - add a new item to the current collection. An item is an element that takes part in repetitions and often has the question-answer form (see also: Topics vs. items). The item is added to the current concept group (as selected in the Default concept group field on the navigation bar at the top of the element window)

Add a new article

Add a new article (Ctrl+N) - add a new article to the current collection. The article is pasted from the clipboard. It is added to the current concept group (as selected in the Default concept group field on the navigation bar at the top of the element window).

Add a new task

Add a new task (Alt+F1) - add a new task to the current tasklist. To see the current tasklist, use the tasklist manager (e.g. press F4). To change the current tasklist, in the tasklist manager, select the tasklist from the Tasklist combo box, and click Set next to it.

Add a note

Add a note (Alt+N) - add a new note to the current concept group. A note is a topic that uses the default topic template (originally, a single scaleable HTML component). Use this option to type in rough notes into your collection. You can then process your notes in the process of incremental reading

Web import

Web import
- All (Shift+Ctrl+A) - import learning material from Internet Explorer. You can import the content or links to web pages currently opened in Internet Explorer. If you have more than one tab opened, you can import from many web pages at once. This option also makes it possible to close the tabs you no longer needed (e.g. during or after page import), import pictures, import live pages, etc. Web import as Local pages takes only the selected portion of the text in the browser (or all text, it none is selected); this does not apply to Wikipedia or YouTube imports (below); imported selections are marked as Portion of: in the reference title. Typical web import with only a portion of text selected in the browser. All references are added automatically.
  
  Grays Harbor filed for a preliminary permit to test technology for a 100-megawatt wave park to be floated 20 to 25 miles off the San Francisco coast. Grays' San Francisco Ocean Energy Project "may also generate power from wind turbines" placed on the wave-energy converters, according to the company's application.
  So far the project has generated heated opposition from a coalition of environmental groups, surfers and commercial fishing organizations that have intervened in the case. They argue that the wave farm's location in federally protected marine sanctuaries near the Farallon Islands could harm endangered whales, turtles and seabirds as well as interfere with surfers, sailors and pose a navigation hazard for oil tankers and other ships
  
  #Title: Selected portion of: San Francisco's wave farm fight - Green Wombat
  #Date: Mar 03, 2009, 08:41:48
  #Source: Web import: "San Francisco wave farm"
  #Link: http://greenwombat.blogs.fortune.cnn.com/2009/03/02/san-franciscos-wave-farm-fight/
  
  Figure: Typical web import with only a portion of text selected in the browser. All references are added automatically.
- Wikipedia (Shift+Ctrl+W) - import pages from Wikipedia. This will either import currently opened Wikipedia articles or let you specify the name of the article to import. This options also applies a Wikipedia-specific filter to help you remove garbage that will not take part in learning (margins, options, edit links, etc.)
  
  Figure: Importing articles about the microbiology of gastroenteritis from Wikipedia for incremental learning. In the picture, 7 have been found as already imported in the collection and marked as DUPLICATE!!!. One article about the trigeminal nerve has been opened twice in Internet Explorer; it has been denoted as DOUBLED!!! for easy filtering. The articles will be imported into the Cranial nerve concept group and their priority will fall between 0.0068% and 0.0138%, and their corresponding Internet Explorer tabs closed upon the successful import.
- YouTube (Shift+Ctrl+Y) - import YouTube videos for incremental learning (incremental video). This will either import currently opened YouTube videos or let you specify keywords that should be used to search for the video.
- Pictures - import pictures opened in Internet Explorer

Mail import

Mail import (Shift+F4) - import mail from Windows (Live) Mail (or any e-mail client supporting EML) or MS Outlook 2000 or later into a series of topics for incremental reading (see: Using e-mail with SuperMemo)

Open web links

Open web links - open all web pages to which the current element links to

Add components

Add components - add new components in the element window. This is an alternative way of building your elements. More often you will use the Compose toolbar at the bottom of the element window:
- Image - image component for displaying pictures (BMP, JPEG, GIF, PNG, etc.). Note that you may prefer to simply paste pictures to SuperMemo. SuperMemo will create an image component for you
- Sound - sound component for playing sound files (WAV, MID, MP3, Real Audio, etc.)
- Video - video component for playing video files (AVI, MPEG, MP4, WMV, etc.)
- HTML - HTML component that can be used to display HTML files. Note that you may prefer to use ready-made HTML templates or paste your texts to SuperMemo (e.g. with Ctrl+N)
- Text - plain text component
- Spell - spell-pad component for spelling exercises

Edit text

Edit text
- Edit title (Alt+T) - edit the text currently displayed in the title bar of the element window
- Edit first question (Q) - edit the first text component that is visible at the question time
- Edit first answer (A) - edit the first text component that is marked as an answer
- Edit all (E) - switch all text components to the editing mode
- Add pronunciation - add a word-transcription pair to the phonetic transcription registry (only if this registry has been created with Toolkit : Options : Language : Phonetic transcription)
- Apply filter - process all texts used by all elements in the collection with a filter file (e.g. replace a set of strings with another set of string, remove delimited comments, move delimited comments to the comments registry, etc.)

Create a concept

Create a concept - create a new concept to add new elements to its branch

Create a tasklist

Create a tasklist - create a new concept (as with Create a concept above) and add a tasklist rooted in that concept

Delete element

Delete element (Shift+Ctrl+Del) - delete the currently displayed element

Delete components

Delete components - delete selected components from the currently displayed element

Menus

Menus - make it possible to open currently available context menus for individual windows or components:
- Element> (Alt+F10) - open the element menu
- Component> (Alt+F12) - open the component menu (for the currently selected component in the element window)
- Contents> - open the contents menu
- Browser> - open the browser menu
- Registry> - open the registry menu (for the currently active registry window)

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-The '''Edit''' submenu of the [[main menu]] makes it possible to add new elements, enrich them with components (e.g. sounds or pictures), delete elements, edit elements, and more. The '''Edit''' submenu is available only after you enter the middle level or the professional level (with '''[[File menu | File]] : [[Levels | Level]]''').
+The '''Edit''' submenu of the [[main menu]] makes it possible to add new [[Glossary:Element|elements]], enrich them with [[Glossary:Component|components]] (e.g. sounds or pictures), delete elements, edit elements, and more. The '''Edit''' submenu is available only after you enter the '''Middle''' or '''Professional''' [[Glossary:Level|levels]] (with '''[[File menu | File]] : [[Levels | Level]]''').
 == Edit menu items ==
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 === Add a new item ===
-* '''Add a new item''' (''Alt+A'') - add a new [[Glossary#item | item]] to the current [[Glossary#collection | collection]]. An item is an [[Glossary#element | element]] that takes part in repetitions and often has the question-answer form (see also: [[Items, topics and tasks | Topics vs. items]]). The item is added to the current [[Categories | category]] (as selected in the category combo-box on the [[Toolbar dock | '''Tools''' toolbar]])
+* '''Add a new item''' (''Alt+A'') - add a new [[Glossary:Item|item]] to the current [[Glossary:Collection|collection]]. An item is an [[Glossary:Element|element]] that takes part in repetitions and often has the question-answer form (see also: [[Items, topics, concepts, and tasks|Topics vs. items]]). The [[Glossary:Item|item]] is added to the current [[Glossary:Concept group|concept group]] (as selected in the '''Default concept group''' field on the [[navigation bar]] at the top of the [[element window]])
 === Add a new article ===
-* '''Add a new article''' (''Ctrl+N'') - add a new article to the current [[Glossary#collection | collection]]. The article is pasted from the clipboard
+* '''Add a new article''' (''Ctrl+N'') - add a new article to the current [[Glossary:Collection|collection]]. The article is pasted from the clipboard. It is added to the current [[Glossary:Concept group|concept group]] (as selected in the '''Default concept group''' field on the [[navigation bar]] at the top of the [[element window]]).
 === Add a new task ===
-* '''Add a new task''' (''Alt+F1'') - add a new task to the current tasklist. Current tasklist is determined by the selection in the rightmost combo on the [[Toolbar dock | '''Tools''' toolbar]]. To see the current tasklist, use the [[tasklist manager]] (e.g. press ''F4'')
+* '''Add a new task''' (''Alt+F1'') - add a new [[Glossary:Task|task]] to the current [[Glossary:Tasklist|tasklist]]. To see the current [[Glossary:Tasklist|tasklist]], use the [[tasklist manager]] (e.g. press ''F4''). To change the current tasklist, in the [[tasklist manager]], select the tasklist from the '''Tasklist combo box''', and click '''Set''' next to it.
-=== Open web links ===
+=== Add a note ===
-* '''Open web links''' - open all web pages to which the current element links to
+* '''Add a note''' (''Alt+N'') - add a new note to the current [[Glossary:Concept_group|concept group]]. A note is a [[Glossary:Topic|topic]] that uses the default topic [[Glossary:Template|template]] (originally, a single scaleable [[HTML component]]). Use this option to type in rough notes into your [[Glossary:Collection|collection]]. You can then process your notes in the process of [[Glossary:Incremental_reading|incremental reading]]
-=== Import web pages ===
+=== Web import ===
 <ul>
-<li>'''[[Import web pages]]'''
+<li>'''[[Web import]]'''
 <ul>
-<li>'''All''' (''Shift+Ctrl+A'') - import learning material from Internet Explorer. You can import the content or links to web pages currently opened in Internet Explorer. If you have more than tab opened, you can import from many web pages at once. This option also makes it possible to the tabs you no longer needed (e.g. during or after page import), import pictures, import live pages, etc. Web import as '''Local pages''' takes only the selected portion of the text in the browser (or all text, it none is selected); this does not apply to Wikipedia or YouTube imports (below); imported selections are marked as ''Portion of:'' in the reference title. Typical web import with only a portion of text selected in the browser. All references are added automatically.
+<li>'''All''' (''Shift+Ctrl+A'') - import learning material from Internet Explorer. You can import the content or links to web pages currently opened in Internet Explorer. If you have more than one tab opened, you can import from many web pages at once. This option also makes it possible to close the tabs you no longer needed (e.g. during or after page import), import pictures, import live pages, etc. Web import as '''Local pages''' takes only the selected portion of the text in the browser (or all text, it none is selected); this does not apply to [http://en.wikipedia.org Wikipedia] or [http://youtube.com YouTube] imports (below); imported selections are marked as ''Portion of:'' in the reference title. Typical web import with only a portion of text selected in the browser. All references are added automatically.
 <div class="center">
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 </div>
-''Typical web import with only a portion of text selected in the browser. All references are added automatically.''
+'''''Figure:''' Typical web import with only a portion of text selected in the browser. All [[references]] are added automatically.''
 </div>
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 <li>'''<span id="Wikipedia">Wikipedia</span>''' (''Shift+Ctrl+W'') - import pages from [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page Wikipedia]. This will either import currently opened Wikipedia articles or let you specify the name of the article to import. This options also applies a Wikipedia-specific filter to help you remove garbage that will not take part in learning (margins, options, edit links, etc.)
-[[Image:Wikipedia_import.jpg|800px|center|SuperMemo: Importing articles about clathrate gun hypothesis from Wikipedia for incremental learning]]
+<div class="center">
+[[Image:Wikipedia_import.jpg|800px|SuperMemo: Importing articles about the microbiology of gastroenteritis from Wikipedia for incremental learning]]
+{{:Image:Wikipedia import.jpg}}
+</div>
 </li>
-<li>[[Incremental video | '''YouTube''']] (''Shift+Ctrl+Y'') - import [http://www.youtube.com/ YouTube] videos for incremental learning ([[incremental video]]). This will either import currently opened YouTube videos or let you specify keywords that should be used to search for the video.
+<li>[[Incremental video | '''YouTube''']] (''Shift+Ctrl+Y'') - import [http://www.youtube.com/ YouTube] videos for incremental learning ([[incremental video]]). This will either import currently opened [http://youtube.com YouTube] videos or let you specify keywords that should be used to search for the video.
-[[Image:YouTube_import.jpg|800px|center|SuperMemo: Importing videos featuring Richard Dawkins from YouTube for incremental learning]]
-</li>
-</ul>
+[[Image:YouTube_import.jpg|800px|center|SuperMemo: Importing videos featuring Nokia Lumia 2520, iPad, and Surface from YouTube for incremental learning]]
 </li>
-</ul>
+<li>'''Pictures''' - import pictures opened in Internet Explorer</li>
-=== Import mail ===
-* '''Import mail''' (''Shift+F4'') - import mail from Windows (Live) Mail (or any e-mail client supporting EML) or MS Outlook 2000 or later into a series of topics for [[incremental reading]] (see: [[Using incremental reading to process e-mail | Using e-mail with SuperMemo]])
-=== Add to category ===
-<ul>
-<li>'''Add to category''' - add new elements to the current [[Categories | category]] (as selected in the category combo on the [[Toolbar dock | '''Tools''' toolbar]])
-<ul>
-<li>'''Item''' (''Alt+A'') - add a new item to the current category (category [[Glossary#hook node | hook]] becomes the parent of the added item). The item will use the default category [[Templates | template]] (originally, two [[HTML component | HTML text components]] forming a question and an answer)</li>
-<li>'''Note''' (''Alt+N'') - add a new note to the current category. A note is a topic that uses the default topic template (originally, a single scaleable HTML text component). Use this option to type in rough notes into your collection. You can then process your notes in the process of [[incremental reading]]</li>
-<li>'''HTML Note''' (''Ctrl+H'') - add a new HTML note to the current category. This option is the same as '''Add to category : Note''' (above), but it always uses the default HTML topic template (same as the original ''Article'' template)</li>
-<li>'''Article''' (''Ctrl+N'') - paste an article to SuperMemo. The article will be added to the current [[Categories | category]]. It will use the default topic [[Templates | template]]. Originally, this template is based on a single [[HTML component]]. The text currently stored in the clipboard will be pasted. You can then process the pasted text with [[incremental reading]]. Most often you will use this option to paste portion of text from your web browser. After you select some text, press ''Ctrl+C'', switch back to SuperMemo (e.g. with ''Alt+Tab'') and press ''Ctrl+N''</li>
-<li>'''HTML file''' - import an HTML file saved on your hard disk and place it as a reading topic in the current category. If you have saved the file with Internet Explorer (as ''Webpage complete''), the accompanying files will be imported as well (pictures, scripts, frame pages, etc.)</li>
-<li>[[Using incremental reading to process e-mail | '''E-mail''']] - add an e-mail text for [[incremental reading]] (use this option only if you cannot import mail automatically from MS Outlook). It is recommended that you use e-mail headers for easiness of responding to e-mail fragments. For example, in Outlook Express, you can click '''Forward''' to get access to the e-mail text with the header. SuperMemo will use the address that follows ''[mailto:'' in responding to e-mail fragments. Here is an exemplary header:<br />''-----Original Message-----''<br />''From: John Ruiz <nowiki>[mailto:noname@noname.com]</nowiki>''<br />''Sent: Tuesday, October 17, 2000 4:10 PM''<br />''To: none@supermemo.com''<br />''Subject: SuperMemo interface suggestions''</li>
 </ul>
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 </ul>
-=== Add to tasklist ===
+=== Mail import ===
-* '''Add to tasklist''' - add new elements to the current [[Tasklist manager | tasklist]] as selected in the tasklist combo box on the [[Toolbar dock | '''Tools''' toolbar]]
+* '''Mail import''' (''Shift+F4'') - import mail from Windows (Live) Mail (or any e-mail client supporting EML) or MS Outlook 2000 or later into a series of [[Glossary:Topic|topics]] for [[Glossary:Incremental_reading|incremental reading]] (see: [[Incremental mail processing| Using e-mail with SuperMemo]])
-** '''Task''' (''Alt+F1'') - add a new task to the currently selected tasklist
-** '''Article''' - add a new article to the current tasklist. The task will use the default task template. The text component in the task template will paste the text currently stored in the clipboard. The current tasklist is determined by the selection in the tasklist combo on the [[Toolbar dock | '''Tools''' toolbar]]. To view the current tasklist, choose '''Tools : Tasklist''' (''F4'')
-** '''HTML file''' - import an HTML file saved on your hard disk and place it as a reading task on the current tasklist
-** [[Using incremental reading to process e-mail | '''E-mail''']] - add a new e-mail text to the currently selected tasklist (see: [[Using incremental reading to process e-mail | Using e-mail with SuperMemo]])
-=== Create category ===
+=== Open web links ===
-* '''Create category''' - open the Category Wizard to create a new [[Categories | category]]. Select the location of the category in the contents window, choose its name and, optionally, change its templates. In those quick three steps, you can easily add new categories to your collection
-=== Create tasklist ===
+* '''Open web links''' - open all web pages to which the current [[Glossary:Element|element]] links to
-* '''Create tasklist''' - create a new category (as with '''Create category''' above) and add a [[Tasklist manager | tasklist]] rooted in that category
 === Add components ===
-* '''Add components''' - add new components in the [[element window]]. This is an alternative way of building your elements. More often you will use the [[Compose toolbar | '''Compose''' toolbar]] in the [[Toolbar dock | main window]]:
+* '''Add components''' - add new [[Glossary:Component|components]] in the [[element window]]. This is an alternative way of building your [[Glossary:Element|elements]]. More often you will use the [[Compose toolbar | '''Compose''' toolbar]] at the bottom of the [[element window]]:
-** '''Image''' - image component for displaying pictures (''BMP, JPEG, GIF, PNG,'' etc.). Note that you may prefer to simply paste pictures to SuperMemo. SuperMemo will create an image component for you
+** '''Image''' - image [[Glossary:Component|component]] for displaying pictures (''BMP'', ''JPEG'', ''GIF'', ''PNG'', etc.). Note that you may prefer to simply paste pictures to SuperMemo. SuperMemo will create an image component for you
-** '''Sound''' - sound component for playing sound files (''WAV, MID, MP3, Real Audio,'' etc.)
+** '''Sound''' - sound [[Glossary:Component|component]] for playing sound files (''WAV'', ''MID'', ''MP3'', ''Real Audio'', etc.)
-** '''HTML''' - HTML component that can be used to display HTML files. Note that you may prefer to use ready-made HTML templates or paste your texts to SuperMemo (e.g. with ''Ctrl+N'')
+** '''Video''' - video [[Glossary:Component|component]] for playing video files (''AVI'', ''MPEG'', ''MP4'', ''WMV'', etc.)
-** '''Rich text''' - rich text component using the RTF format
+** '''HTML''' - [[HTML component]] that can be used to display HTML files. Note that you may prefer to use ready-made HTML [[Glossary:Template|templates]] or paste your texts to SuperMemo (e.g. with ''Ctrl+N'')
-** '''Text''' - plain text component
+** '''Text''' - plain text [[Glossary:Component|component]]
-** '''Spell''' - spell-pad component for spelling exercises
+** '''Spell''' - spell-pad [[Glossary:Component|component]] for spelling exercises
-** '''Script''' - script component for animating other components (see: [[Scripts | Using scripts]])
-** '''Other''' - bring up the [[Compose toolbar | '''Compose''' toolbar]] with all other components that can be created by drag&drop
 === Edit text ===
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 * '''Edit text'''
 ** '''Edit title''' (''Alt+T'') - edit the text currently displayed in the title bar of the [[element window]]
-** '''Edit first question''' (''Q'') - edit the first text [[Glossary#component | component]] that is visible at the question time
+** '''Edit first question''' (''Q'') - edit the first text [[Glossary:Component|component]] that is visible at the question time
-** '''Edit first answer''' (''A'') - edit the first text component that is marked as an answer
+** '''Edit first answer''' (''A'') - edit the first text [[Glossary:Component|component]] that is marked as an answer
-** '''Edit all''' (''E'') - switch all text components to the [[Glossary#editing mode | editing mode]]
+** '''Edit all''' (''E'') - switch all text [[Glossary:Component|components]] to the [[Glossary:Editing_mode|editing mode]]
-** '''Add pronunciation''' - add a word-transcription pair to the phonetic transcription registry (only if this registry has been created with '''[[Tools menu | Tools]] : [[Options]] : [[Language tab in Options | Language]]''')
+** '''Add pronunciation''' - add a word-transcription pair to the phonetic transcription [[Glossary:Registry|registry]] (only if this registry has been created with '''[[Toolkit menu|Toolkit]] : [[Options]] : [[Language tab in Options|Language]] : Phonetic transcription''')
-** '''Apply filter''' - process all texts used by all elements in the collection with a [[Filter files | filter file]] (e.g. replace a set of strings with another set of string, remove delimited comments, move delimited comments to the comments registry, etc.)
+** '''Apply filter''' - process all texts used by all [[Glossary:Element|elements]] in the [[Glossary:Collection|collection]] with a [[Filter files|filter file]] (e.g. replace a set of strings with another set of string, remove delimited comments, move delimited comments to the comments registry, etc.)
+=== Create a concept ===
+* '''Create a concept''' - create a new [[Glossary:Concept|concept]] to add new [[Glossary:Element|elements]] to its [[Glossary:Branch|branch]]
+=== Create a tasklist ===
+* '''Create a tasklist''' - create a new [[Glossary:Concept|concept]] (as with '''Create a concept''' above) and add a [[Glossary:Tasklist|tasklist]] rooted in that concept
 === Delete element ===
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 === Delete components ===
-* '''Delete components''' - delete selected components from the currently displayed element
+* '''Delete components''' - delete selected [[Glossary:Component|components]] from the currently displayed [[Glossary:Element|element]]
 === Menus ===
-* '''Menus''' - make it possible to open currently available context menus for individual windows or components:
+* '''Menus''' - make it possible to open currently available context menus for individual windows or [[Glossary:Component|components]]:
 ** '''Element>''' (''Alt+F10'') - open the [[element menu]]
-** '''Component>''' (''Alt+F12'') - open the [[component menu]] (for the current component in the [[element window]])
+** '''Component>''' (''Alt+F12'') - open the [[component menu]] (for the currently selected [[Glossary:Component|component]] in the [[element window]])
 ** '''Contents>''' - open the [[contents menu]]
 ** '''Browser>''' - open the [[browser menu]]
-** '''Registry>''' - open the [[registry menu]] (for the currently active registry window)
+** '''Registry>''' - open the [[registry menu]] (for the currently active [[registry window]])