Tools toolbar

Here is the Tools toolbar at the control bar at the bottom of the element window:

Figure: The Tools toolbar at the bottom of the element window. It features speed-buttons that provide one-click access to the most frequently used operations in SuperMemo

The Tools toolbar hosts the following controls:

• Open collection - opens a new collection
• Quick backup (Shift+F12) - copy the entire collection to a selected backup folder with the current date stamp
• Find elements (Ctrl+F) - searches for elements containing a given string
• Web search (Ctrl+F3) - searches the web for the currently selected text
• Layout manager - open a layout manager that makes it possible to select, apply, save or delete layouts
• Save layout (Shift+Ctrl+F5) - saves the current position of windows to be uses by default in the future
• Apply default layout (Ctrl+F5) - restores the default window layout (as saved with Save layout)
• Calendar (Ctrl+W) - opens the calendar of repetitions
• Outstanding - opens a browser with all outstanding elements (i.e. elements scheduled for repetition today)
• Ancestors (Shift+Ctrl+X) - shows a window with the list of ancestors of the currently displayed element. To keep this window on the screen, position it conveniently, and choose Save layout button described above
• Images - open the image registry
• Sounds - open the sound registry
• Tasklists - can open the tasklist registry in order to change tasklist properties (or to choose the default/current tasklist by clicking Accept or pressing Enter)
• Hints - turn on or turn off displaying hints when the mouse pauses over buttons. In addition, this option affects whether the status bar shows the hints when the mouse pauses over a menu option