Anki Tips
A collection of tips for getting the most out of Anki. Click any tip below.
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Understanding Anki's Note, Field, and Card Type Concepts
How a field becomes a note, a note follows a note type, and a note type drives its card types — and why one template edit updates every card.
How to Use ankieditor, Step by Step with Screenshots
From copying your template out of Anki to styling it and pasting it back — the whole flow with real screenshots.
How to Left-Align Text in Anki
Center a single short line, left-align anything that wraps to two lines or more — how to change the whole card or just one field, plus the CSS it generates.
How to Change Font Size in Anki
24–32px for the answer, 14–16px for pronunciation or example sentences — how to split sizes so the answer registers first.
How to Change Card Width in Anki
How to pull a card that stretches across the whole screen back to around 500px, plus the three lines of CSS it writes.
How to Change Line Spacing in Anki
Anki's default is 1.5. When to raise it to 1.6–1.7 for multi-line cards, and how to add a blank line between fields to separate an answer from its example.
How to Set Colors in Anki Night Mode (Dark Mode)
Why the background darkens but your blue answer text sinks into it, plus how to give it a night-only color or a card background color.
How to Thicken the Divider in Anki
How to add a divider on the back of a card, plus the recommended 3–5px + color combo for when a long card reads as one block.
How to Set Up FSRS in Anki
If review intervals don't match your memory, turn FSRS on. How it differs from the old scheduler, how to enable and optimize it, and why to press only 1 and 3.