Help menu

Help submenu on the main menu provides the following options:

• Welcome - ABC - open the welcome page of SuperMemo help with a 3-minute introduction to SuperMemo
• Guide - open the step-by-step guide with the most important steps towards mastering SuperMemo (one month course)
• Contents - open the help's table of contents
• Troubleshooter - open SuperMemo Troubleshooter
• FAQ - open the page with the most frequently asked questions about SuperMemo
• Hints and tips - open the page with the most useful hints and tips
• Context (F1) - open the page most relevant to the current context. For example, if you are in the contents window, pressing F1 will open the contents window page
• Web
  • On-line help - open the help file directly from SuperMemo Website. You can use this option if you cannot find what you are looking for in off-line help and hope that the updated version of on-line help will be of better assistance
  • YouTube - open a dedicated YouTube channel with video tutorials about SuperMemo
  • Search Wiki Help - search SuperMemo Help at supermemo.org. This is a wiki version of help and may include comments made by users of SuperMemo. To search the original unchanged help file use Search HTML Help below
  • Search HTML Help - search SuperMemo Help at supermemo.com
  • Search SuperMemoPedia - search SuperMemoPedia, i.e. a wiki system created to help users solve their problems
  • Search Web - use Google to search for articles about SuperMemo
  • Search Forum - use Google to search for posts at the SuperMemo community forum at Yahoo Groups
  • Search Groups - search Google Groups for messages about SuperMemo
  • FAQ - open the FAQ page at supermemo.com
• E-mail
  • Support - open this page on the web
  • Bug report - send a bug report. When reporting a bug, remember to always use this option to ensure your system data and the bug context are included
  • Questionnaire (Alt+F2) - fill out your feedback form and send it via e-mail. This way you can bank on better support and better SuperMemo software in the future
• Question of the Day - equivalent of the tip of the day in other programs. In SuperMemo, tips are formulated as simple questions-and-answers. If you decide to introduce some tips into the learning process, just click the button Remember in the Question of the Day dialog box. If you think a tip is not worth knowing, click Delete. Note that tips in SuperMemo are a mini-metaphor of the SuperMemo paradigm!
• About - dialog box with the release date of your current SuperMemo. Click Choose picture to change the picture displayed when SuperMemo starts up. If you downloaded SuperMemo from a franchising website, you will also find here the address of your local distributor and information about technical support in your native language; click the underlined reseller's name

You can always use the compiled contents of SuperMemo Website to use if off-line. Do it only if you do not have access to the Internet (on-line help is always up-to-date):

1. Go to the help download page
2. Download the most up-to-date smhelp.chm file
3. Copy this file to the BIN subfolder

If the help file smhelp.chm is not present in the BIN subfolder, SuperMemo will attempt to open the up-to-date help material available from SuperMemo Website. If the file is present and SuperMemo still attempts to connect, choose Tools : Options : SuperMemo : Help system : Microsoft Help (CHM) (the default option Optimize will attempt to connect you to updated help as soon as CHM file becomes outdated)