How to Use

How to Use

A first-timer's walkthrough β€” from importing your Anki card template, through editing it, to pasting it back.

From importing your template to pasting it back into Anki

πŸ–Ό See the detailed walkthrough with screenshots

1. Copy your template from Anki

In Anki, open Tools β†’ Manage Note Types β†’ Cards... to see three editing panes: Front Template, Back Template, and Styling. Select all (Ctrl+A) in each pane and copy its contents. If you've never touched a template before, you can skip this step and just start from one of the built-in presets, like Basic or Cloze, in the editor's [Import] dialog.

2. Paste it into the editor

Click [Import] at the bottom of the editor, paste each piece of code into its matching field, and click [Load]. The πŸ“‹ button next to each field fills it in automatically from your clipboard.

3. Click to style

Click whatever you want to change in the card preview on the right to select it, then use the panel on the left to change the font, size, color, alignment, or line spacing. Click an empty area of the card to target the whole card instead. {{FieldName}} chips are Anki placeholders and are never altered by editing, so feel free to click them too.

4. Copy the code back into Anki

Click [Copy Code] to open a menu where you can copy the Front Template, Back Template, and Styling separately. Paste each one into the matching pane on Anki's Cards screen and save β€” that's it. The editor preserves your original template's line breaks and formatting as closely as possible.

Check how it looks in night mode, and fix the colors

If you use Anki in night mode, you need to know whether the colors you picked on a bright screen still read on a dark background. Tick [Night Mode] above the preview and the card switches to the way it looks in Anki's night mode.

Anki's night mode darkens the card background and the default text color, but it leaves any color you set yourself alone. So if you painted your answers blue, they can sink into the dark background. When that happens, keep night mode on, click that part, and pick a color under Text Color or Background Color. The color you pick applies only in night mode, and your everyday color stays as it is. To undo it, press [Clear night colors for this target] below the color pickers.

While night mode is on you can only change colors β€” font, size, alignment and line height are locked. Those have no reason to differ between day and night, so turn night mode off to change them and they apply to both.

For the details and guidance on picking colors, see When Your Text Colors Disappear in Night Mode.