Pleasurable Guide to SuperMemo

Course Goals

• The main goal of the course is to introduce anyone to Supermemo and Incremental Reading from scratch
  • That implies having linearilty and introduce new concepts, features, jargon incrementally in a didactic manner; unlike my YouTube videos, where I usually assume proficiency or I target newcomers specifically.
  • I have spent a lot of time curating the order, atomizing the contents, and designing the progression (what to mention, what to introduce later, introduce by layers, etc).
• Offer an unofficial point of view to Supermemo Software & Company
  • Most of the opinions or decisions made in Supermemo are idiosincratic from Piotr Wozniak. As a consequence, some lack of features is rather questionable, some flows are tedious and some features have room of improvement.
    • For an example I discourage using the default "backup" feature or use of AutoHotKey scripts.
    • The customer support is terrible.
• Lowering the attrition rate of Supermemo users
  • A lot of people give up Supermemo really soon. I hope that with my course, the user experience the flatest learning curve posible and if the person decides to move on, would be due friction points rather than getting lost or overwhelmed.
• Tranfer all my Supermemo expertise
  • This way, private tutoring should become minimum or just for preference.
  • Some tacit knowledge and soft skills that are hard to explain; requires a lot of footage including genuine sessions.
  • Fill some gaps from the official documentation in cases the descriptions are too short, ambiguous or inexistent.
• Deliver an evergreen exchausitve guide
  • Every feature, flow and phisolophy is covered in a way that will pass the test of time, including outliving me.
  • Seems that I am so extremelly motivated it it had to be me.

Course Format

Versions Covered In The Course

All videos from my channel from 2020 to early 2024 are recorded using SM18. Then all videos are recorded using SM19. All videos I recorded for the course are using SM19, unless I showcase a version specific feature, such as the Supermemo Assistant, the web importer or the priority proetection statistic.

Course Contents

Course Content

Section Number	Section Name
1	Course Introduction
2	Introduction To Supermemo
3	Why Supermemo
4	Philosophy Behind Supermemo
5	Intro To Fluency Part Of The Course
6	Running Supermemo For The 1st Time
7	Layouts
8	Elements
9	Element Parameters
10	Element Operations
11	Components
12	Component Operations
13	Collection
14	Fonts
15	Styling
16	Processing Text
17	Images
18	Templates
19	Template Operations
20	Concepts
21	Collection Operations
22	References
23	Building Knowledge Tree
24	Subsets
25	Workload Calendar
26	Subset Batch Operations
27	Batch Rescheduling Operations
28	Registry Operations
29	Learning Flow
30	Web Imports
31	Searching
32	Theoretical Introduction To Incremental Reading
33	--Advantages & Disadvantages Of Incremental Reading
34	Incremental Reading Flow
35	Incremental Reading Soft Skills
36	Priorities
37	Spaced Repetition
38	--Leeches & Forgetting
39	Neural Review
40	Backup
41	Supermemo Users
42	Outro Fluency Part
43	Knowledge Formulation
44	--20 Rules
45	--Beyond The 20 Rules
46	Learning Theory
47	Incremental Learning
48	Medium Theory Of Incremental Reading
49	Situations Incremental Reading
50	Advanced Theory Of Incremental Reading
51	Advanced Incremental Reading Flow
52	Advanced Templates
53	Final Drill
54	Stats
55	Analysis
56	Imports
57	Reading Books
58	Deleting
59	Lifestyle
60	Using AI
61	Supermemo Files
62	Language Learning
63	Incremental Video
64	Sleepchart
65	Exporting
66	Plan
67	Random
68	Tasks & Tasklists
69	Incremental Audio
70	Image Occlusion
71	Incremental Email
72	Incremental Writing
73	Supermemo Assistant
74	Powerup Supermemo With AutoHotKey
75	Miscellaneous
76	4D Graphs
77	Publishing Collections
78	Course Outro