Anki Tips
A collection of tips for making your Anki cards easier to read. 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.
Preview Your Card with Real Field Sample Values
Swap the gray placeholder pills for real content — cloze syntax included — so you can judge fonts and colors the way an actual card will look.
Save and Load Your Own Templates
Name and keep several templates inside the editor, and back one up before a big change. A note on where this data actually lives.
Set a Max Card Width So Cards Read at a Glance
Stop long lines from stretching across the whole screen by capping the card's width, book-page style.
Adjust Line Height Inside a Paragraph
Multi-line explanations feel cramped at the default spacing — raising line height to around 1.5 is the easiest single fix.
Add a Divider So the Answer Stands Out
Add a divider on the back of the card and resize it to make "below the line = the answer" obvious at a glance.
Make the Main Content Big, Secondary Info Small
Enlarge the answer, shrink and gray out pronunciation or example sentences, so your eyes land on what matters first.
Add Space Between Fields
A blank line between unrelated pieces of information — like an answer and an example sentence — helps the eye separate them.
Center Alignment Isn't Always Right
Center a single short line, left-align anything that wraps to two lines or more — and mixing both on one card works well.
Give Each Note Type Its Own Card Background Color
A soft background tint per note type helps you switch mental gears between subjects — plus two caveats worth knowing.