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Kioku’s main window has a left sidebar of seven top-level pages. Switch between them by clicking the sidebar or pressing the number key shown for each page below.

The number keys map to the sidebar order: 1 Dashboard, 2 Reader, 3 Browse, 4 Review, 5 Plan, 6 Stats, 7 Settings. These bindings are rebindable; see Customize shortcuts.

Dashboard

Section titled “Dashboard”

Nav key: 1. The launch page, shown when Kioku starts.

Dashboard gives an at-a-glance view of your day and a quick way into a study session. It shows a greeting with a session estimate, a forecast for Today, Tomorrow, and Next 7 days, a This week activity strip, and a streak. The primary action is Begin review, which opens Review (it reads Nothing to review when nothing is due). Tertiary actions are Browse, +Cloze, and +Basic (the last two open a quick Card editor). A right-side panel holds a Read bar that opens Reader at a pasted URL and a Continue reading list of recent Sources.

The Kioku Dashboard: a due forecast for today, tomorrow, and the next seven days, a Begin review button, and a Read bar above a list of recent Sources. The Kioku Dashboard: a due forecast for today, tomorrow, and the next seven days, a Begin review button, and a Read bar above a list of recent Sources.

Reader

Section titled “Reader”

Nav key: 2. The incremental-reading and web-import workspace.

Reader loads web pages and imported PDFs in an embedded webview and lets you turn selected text into study material. Primary actions: navigate to a URL, go back or forward, refresh, import the current page, bookmark it, and — from a text selection — create an Extract or a Cloze Card. Reader sits at 2 because incremental reading is Kioku’s differentiator. See Import a web page, Extract and cloze, and the Incremental reading concept.

The Reader workspace with a URL bar and a toolbar for navigating, importing, bookmarking, and extracting from a page. The Reader workspace with a URL bar and a toolbar for navigating, importing, bookmarking, and extracting from a page.

Browse

Section titled “Browse”

Nav key: 3. The knowledge-tree manager.

Browse is a two-pane workspace for exploring, organizing, and editing every Element in the active Collection. The left pane is a tree of Topics, Extracts, Items, and Concepts with drag-and-drop reordering and reparenting; the right pane is an inline editor plus a details panel with metadata, a priority slider, and per-Element actions. Header buttons NEW TOPIC and NEW CONCEPT create Elements. The toolbar has search (focus with /), a Type filter, a State filter, Clear filters, and — while searching — a Review button that starts an ad-hoc Review of the results. See the Elements concept.

The Browse page: a tree of Topics, Extracts, and Items on the left with an editor and a details panel on the right. The Browse page: a tree of Topics, Extracts, and Items on the left with an editor and a details panel on the right.

Review

Section titled “Review”

Nav key: 4. The spaced-repetition Review session.

Review works through the due Queue of Cards, Topics, and Extracts. For Items you rate recall on a four-point scale — 1 Again, 2 Hard, 3 Good, 4 Easy — and for Topics you choose a Topic action (read, extract, skip, done). You can also undo the last Review, postpone, and set or jump to a read point. See Reviewing and the Review queue and Spaced repetition concepts.

A Review session showing a revealed cloze card and the four-point rating bar: Again, Hard, Good, Easy. A Review session showing a revealed cloze card and the four-point rating bar: Again, Hard, Good, Easy.

Plan

Section titled “Plan”

Nav key: 5. The Plan: a daily-schedule planner.

Plan lets you build time-blocked activity templates and execute one as a live day. The page renders a template switcher, a schedule table of activities (with name, length, fixed start time, and rigid duration), and — when a day is running — an execution view. It distinguishes editing a template from running an execution, and offers a statistics view and import/export. See the Plan guide.

The Plan page showing the Weekday template's schedule table of activities with the timeline and a Start button. The Plan page showing the Weekday template's schedule table of activities with the timeline and a Start button.

Stats

Section titled “Stats”

Nav key: 6. The read-only statistics dashboard.

Stats reports learning analytics for the active Collection; nothing here is editable. Sections cover Today (due Items and Topics, reviews done, success rate, and a rating distribution), Collection totals by type and status, Learning, Performance, Workload, and Priority.

The Stats dashboard with collection totals and learning, performance, and workload analytics. The Stats dashboard with collection totals and learning, performance, and workload analytics.

Settings

Section titled “Settings”

Nav key: 7. App configuration.

Settings adjusts appearance, scheduling, Queue behavior, Collections, and maintenance. It groups controls into sections — Display (color scheme and Highlight colors), Keyboard shortcuts (Show shortcuts), Item scheduler (desired retention and FSRS optimization), Topic scheduler, Queue, Auto-postpone, Import domains, Collections, Export, and more. Changes are buffered until you choose Save settings, and a sticky Unsaved changes banner protects against losing them. For the full enumeration of controls and defaults, see the Settings reference; for FSRS tuning, see Tune FSRS; for backups and exports, see Backup and export.

The Settings page Display section with the color-scheme picker and highlight colors. The Settings page Display section with the color-scheme picker and highlight colors.
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