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Make your own SuperMemo database
much easily and quickly on your desktop PC. Intended
for Supermemo Palm databases, but you can use it for Supermemo
Windows databases, too.
If you are used to collecting question pairs for Supermemo
databases from the internet, or electronic documents, you
don't need to switch endlessly between applications while
producing your database anymore. Save the switching back
and forth, as well as all of the pasting.
Here is how Knowledge Harvester
saves your time:
Scenario 1 : In the source document, select, eg.
via mouse, the text you wish to use as a question, and press
CTRL+C. Then select the answer, press CTRL+C again. Same
goes for next question pairs. Did you notice, you don't
need to switch between the source document and your text
editor, you didn't need to paste the copied parts of text.
Knowledge Harvester does that all in the background, saving
your time and fingers. It automatically creates the Q&A
text file, that you can later easily convert to Palm db
with the smconv.exe utility, supplied with your copy of
SuperMemo.
Scenario 2 : Or, maybe you are reading a text in
foreign language. Select the "Questions only"
mode from Knowledge Harvester, and then proceed with selecting
and copying any word you do not know and would like to learn.
All words will appear as a question in Knowledge Harvester
- so that you can later lookup the definitions in the dictionary
and fill them into preprocessed Q&A text as answers.
"Answers only" mode works identically.
Conversion of SuperMemo for Palm
pdb databases back to text format:
This is "unofficial" function, I have added it
only after users requests, it has nothing to do with original
intent of this application, and is meant merely as a bonus
to registered users. It only converts first two fields,
first one as a question and second one as an answer. This
should be good enough for most databases. If your needs
are greater than that, Mapletop
will send registered users a conversion utility at request,
or use SuperMemo
PDB Converter
You can import the converted Q&A texts back to Palm
via smconv.exe, or even to SuperMemo for Windows without
any problem.
NOTE: if you have any problems,
or any requests for further functionality, don't hesitate
to contact me directly through the email address supplied
in files downloaded from this site. This application is
in development and I have already plan for few features
to add. Your requests will definitely be considered. All
future upgrades free for registered users.
Requirements:
- any desktop PC running Windows 9x/2000/NT/XP
- optionally and most probably also some of the following:
smconv.exe utility, SuperMemo for Palm, SuperMemo for Windows,
SuperMemo CE for Pocket PC
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