AnkiWeb addon 1062267970
Adds a lightweight drawing and handwriting scratchpad to card review, supporting mouse, touch, stylus and pen input, colours, thickness levels, erasers, Surface Pen erasing, and auto-clearing between cards.
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| Min Anki | Max Anki | Updated |
|---|---|---|
| 2.1.0 | – | 2026-03-05 |
| 2.1.2 | – | 2026-03-10 |
| 2.1.3 | – | 2026-03-22 |
| 2.1.4 | – | 2026-04-06 |
| 2.1.5 | – | 2026-04-07 |
| 2.1.6 | – | 2026-04-08 |
| 2.1.7 | – | 2026-04-08 |
| 23.10 | 25.07+ | 2026-07-02 |
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Enables freehand drawing and writing on Anki cards with mouse or pressure-sensitive stylus, including smoothing, calligrapher modes, color and background options, and adjustable canvas/toolbar controls.
Adds a customizable floating typing panel and scratchpad for Anki review, letting users type answers or notes before revealing cards, with auto-clear and shortcut forwarding.
Assigns Anki review actions—answer ratings, show answer, undo, or nothing—to mouse buttons, scroll-wheel movements, and long presses, configurable separately for question and answer sides.
Adds a draggable floating Pomodoro and study timer during review sessions, with automatic breaks, pause/resume, card counter, optional Focus Rhythm feedback, session summaries, and customizable display modes.
Adds a resizable scratchpad to the review screen for typing or drawing answers, with pen pressure support, a clear button, night mode, and automatic clearing on each new card.
Adds a customizable scratchpad during reviews for handwriting or text input, with color, thickness, mode and clear/close controls, automatically cleared after each card.
Minimalistic Drawing Panel adds a clean and lightweight drawing and handwriting panel to Anki. You can write, sketch, draw, annotate, and take handwritten notes directly while reviewing your flashcards without leaving Anki.
Use your mouse, touch screen, pen, stylus, Surface Pen, or compatible drawing tablet to write directly on your cards. It is useful for solving problems, drawing diagrams, making quick notes, practicing handwriting, and visual learning.
The goal is simple: give you a small and distraction-free digital scratchpad and drawing tool inside Anki while keeping your normal study workflow clean and simple.
Write and draw directly while reviewing Anki cards
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Choose colours and adjust pen thickness
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Switch between line eraser and dot eraser modes
Open Tools → Minimalistic Drawing Panel Settings to customize the drawing panel and its behaviour.
You can adjust the available settings to make the panel work better with your own study workflow, mouse, pen, stylus, or drawing tablet.
A clean drawing panel designed to stay out of the way while you study
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I originally created this add-on for my own daily study sessions because I wanted a simple way to write and draw directly in Anki without opening another application.
I continue to use it in my own studies, and the add-on has developed through real study situations and different ways of using it.
Different students use Anki in different ways, so it is always interesting to see how others use the drawing panel and what could make it even more useful.
A companion add-on for: FocusFlow.
A companion add-on for: Focus Mode Suite.
A companion add-on for: Mouse Buttons as Review Shortcuts.
A lightweight drawing and handwriting add-on for Anki that lets you write, draw, annotate, solve problems, and sketch directly during card reviews.
Use a mouse, touchscreen, Surface Pen, stylus, or other pen input to write directly on your Anki cards without leaving the review screen.
Minimalistic Drawing Panel is designed to be simple, fast, and distraction-free. It gives you a small drawing workspace inside Anki without turning your review screen into a full drawing application.
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Write and draw directly while reviewing Anki cards
Minimalistic Drawing Panel adds a simple drawing and handwriting area to Anki's review screen.
Instead of leaving Anki to open another drawing application or notebook, you can write directly while studying.
It can be used for:
The drawing is intended as a temporary study workspace. With auto-clear enabled, your drawing can automatically disappear when you move to the next card.
Minimalistic Drawing Panel supports Microsoft Surface Pen input.
This makes it useful for Surface users who want to write naturally on their Anki cards.
Minimalistic Drawing Panel is particularly useful on devices such as the Microsoft Surface.
You can use the Surface Pen naturally during Anki reviews:
This can be especially useful for subjects where writing is part of the learning process, such as mathematics, physics, science, language learning, and medicine.
Open:
Tools → Minimalistic Drawing Panel Settings
Available settings include:
The settings are intentionally kept simple so the drawing panel stays out of the way during reviews.
The easiest way to install Minimalistic Drawing Panel is through AnkiWeb.
AnkiWeb code:
1062267970