Tag: customization

Hello! I have a question. I saw your beautiful Anki layouts, as well as those of Nihongolog, and I was a little surprised; your Anki layout is completely different from my own! How were you able to change the layout? Are you using a different version of Anki? I’m using the latest windows version, and all I have is the boring white-on-black and thin line between question and answer.

Oh hey, I’m sorry I think this was probably from a while back— I didn’t even realize I had an ask. I’m using the latest version of Anki, Anki2 (or well, I realized when I opened the Windows version that I’m actually running a bit out of date since it wanted me to update, but it should be the same major version: 2.0.8 is what I’m running vs 2.0.11). It does come with a default white/black layout, but I customized it myself by going in and editing the layout/css on the cards and adding my userscript (I gather there’s a built in feature for ‘hint’ but I wanted a bit more customization, since it sounded like that would only work for one field).

Basically you go to “Browse" from the main Anki window, select your card type from the left side, and then when you’re editing a card, there’ll be a button that says “Cards". If you click that the Card Type editor opens, and you’ll have things like “Front Template", “Styling", “Back Template", “Front Preview", “Back Preview" in the window, and you can use HTML, CSS, and Javascript to edit it.

I’m always kind of tweaking my template, like for example, the axolotl-background one looks kind of weird in AnkiDroid sometimes because of what i did to off-center the headers, but if you want to use it as a starting point, here’s some pastebins for it: Front Template (includes the tiny js script I wrote to handle the toggles per element), Styling, and Back Template.

Hope that helps, and sorry again for the rather delayed response.

Made some edits to my original layout, partly as I was noticing myself relying way too much on the English because it was just there in my face, and my brain knows Japanese is going to take a while to decipher, while the English definitions I’ll understand immediately. So I added toggles so that the English will be hidden unless I activate the toggles.

But I also just made a slightly different layout for vocab. I’m going to do the same thing with the English definitions there, too, but I have to go back through them to add in Japanese definitions to all the cards, since I didn’t have them before.

And then I tried to do something new with the grammar cards, though I find it really messes up in AnkiDroid. Might have to try something else.

As before, the axolotls are from here, and the squid pattern is here.

Axolotls! (background tile from here)

Inspired by nihongolog’s fancy anki, I decided I’d attempt to pretty mine up, in the hopes that it would make me want to use it more. I’m not sure that’s working, but I have ended up spending a lot of time messing with plugins and css and reformatting notes. Ended up having to port my original notes all into Japanese note type cards instead of the custom note type I had to make sure that they worked with the Japanese Support plugin, which was fun times.

Please excuse my quick and terrible translations of the sentences. Really these are kind of horrible cards in general, but I’m still tweaking formatting to figure out what works for me. I’m not entirely sure I like my current setup, but I’m trying it for a while before I ditch it.