Awesome Dashboard — for Anki

Tiếng Việt · English

Awesome Dashboard replaces Anki's deck screen, deck overview and review chrome with a single, consistent interface: stat cards, a GitHub-style activity heatmap, a Pomodoro timer, a habit tracker, exam countdowns and an optional sidebar — across six colour themes with matching light and dark palettes, in English, Vietnamese, Brazilian Portuguese and Japanese.

Requires Anki 23.10 or newer (developed and tested on Anki 26.08).

📊 Dashboard

A time-of-day greeting, quick actions, stat cards, an activity heatmap you can browse year by year, and a Pomodoro timer that keeps running while you study. Exam countdowns sit under the greeting and turn orange inside 14 days.

The sidebar is optional and comes in two widths — full, or a compact icon rail. While it is shown, the deck list and the header card move into it, with deck search and a tinted icon per deck.

Decks nest by drag and drop, as in Anki's own deck browser: hold a deck for a moment, drag it onto another and drop. To move one back to the top level, drop it on the list header or on the band that appears under the list. Every row also carries Anki's gear, which opens the deck's own menu: rename, options, export, delete.

✅ Habits

A strip of habits under the stat cards: one click ticks today off, and the click does not reload the page. Habits can be yes/no or counted towards a target (2500 of 3000 ml, 25 of 30 minutes), and can repeat every day, on chosen weekdays, or a number of times a week — that last one is scored by the week, so skipping Tuesday costs nothing as long as the week adds up.

Report opens week, month and year views: a seven-day grid with per-day totals, a calendar per habit, and a GitHub-style year strip, each with completion rate, full days and best streak.

Habits live in your collection, so they ride along in .colpkg backups and in sync between desktops. Deleting a habit archives it and keeps the history; removing it for good is a separate, confirmed action.

📚 Deck overview

Back link, deck icon and description, three count cards, one primary study button, a 7-day forecast built from the scheduler's real due dates, the subdeck list, and quiet footer actions (options, custom study, rename, export, description). Anki's own bars are hidden here — the page carries its own.

🎯 Study modes

Four Quizlet-style ways to work through a deck, opened with the Study modes button on its overview. They run in the same window — no second webview, no separate app — and by default none of them touches your review schedule.

Typed answers allow a spelling slip — a transposition or one edit in a longer word — and say so rather than accepting it silently; a field holding several synonyms accepts any one of them. A Learn session is saved in your collection, so it survives closing Anki and syncs between desktops.

Which fields go on each side is worked out from the card template, not from the order the fields happen to be in — so a note type whose first field is a row number still gets the word, and a reverse card is a different question rather than the same one twice. Pick them from the deck's own Study modes screen, one setting per note type — up to two fields on the front and three on the back — where the first field on a side is the one being asked about, the rest is shown alongside it, and a Details button on any revealed answer opens the whole card exactly as the review screen draws it. Session lengths and question kinds are set there too, on the deck, rather than in a window of their own. Cloze and Image Occlusion cards are left to Anki's own reviewer.

🖼️ Cards preview

Every card in a deck as a grid of flippable tiles, opened with the Cards preview button on its overview. Like the study modes it draws into the same window — there is no second one to open or close.

Click a tile to turn it over, or set it to turn on hover; Flip all shows every answer at once. Columns, rows per page, tile shape (tall through wide), text size and card order are set on the grid itself, and they are remembered. A dot in the corner says whether a card is new, learning, due, suspended or buried, and a flag shows as a coloured square.

Tiles show what Anki itself renders, so cloze deletions, conditional templates and furigana all come out right — images and audio included, which is the one thing the add-on this was modelled on says it cannot do. TeX is typeset with Anki's own MathJax, fetched only when a card on screen actually has any. What a tile does not use is the note type's own stylesheet: it is written for a full screen and falls apart at 270px, so tiles are drawn in the add-on's palette instead, with the font sizes a field asks for scaled to fit.

🎴 Review screen

The header (back, deck name, edit, more) and footer (remaining counts, then Show answer or the four rating buttons) are drawn in the page, so Anki's top toolbar and answer bar can step aside. Rating intervals come from the scheduler, so they follow your deck presets and FSRS.

An optional card skin rebuilds the answer from the note's fields — reading above the word, audio button, numbered meanings, image, collapsible example and notes — with a horizontal flip animation. Click or press Space to flip; rate with the arrow keys or a mouse swipe and the card flies away.

Auto-grading is the other optional mode, and it changes how you answer. Show answer works exactly as it always did, with a countdown bar underneath showing which band you are in — and the time you took to get there picks Easy, Good or Hard for you. Let the bar run out and the answer appears on its own, graded Again. On the answer side you then say only whether you knew it — ← no, → yes, Space to confirm — instead of judging how well; the keys are listed under the card. The four rating buttons are hidden, and a click on the result brings them back with the auto-picked one marked, so a mistake is one click from fixed. The clock stops whenever Anki is not the active window, so stepping away never costs you a card, and time spent reading the answer never counts. Set the thresholds — globally or per deck — in Settings → Decks.

Beside the edit button, an undo control puts back the card you just answered, and Anki's own toast confirming it is drawn in the theme's colours.

Skip — the button at the right of the bottom bar, or C — sets the current card aside for the rest of the session: it is buried, and comes back the moment you leave the review screen, so a card you cannot deal with right now is never pushed to tomorrow. The key can be changed in Settings → Decks.

⚙️ Settings

Eight pages, laid out like macOS System Settings:

Configuration keys are documented in config.md. Prefer the dialog over editing the JSON directly.

🧠 FSRS

Anki ships the FSRS scheduler natively; this add-on drives it from one place — global on/off, per-preset desired retention, parameter optimisation and evaluation, and days since the last optimisation.

🎨 Themes

Six themes (Terracotta, Glass — Apple HIG, Matcha, Aurora, Sunset, Sakura), each with light and dark palettes — Aurora and Sunset paint their accent as a gradient — plus a System / Light / Dark switch that changes Anki's own appearance. Switching cross-fades the open page instead of re-rendering it. Optionally themes Anki's other screens (Add, Browse, Stats, dialogs) through its CSS variables and the Qt palette.

🌐 Languages

English, Tiếng Việt, Português (Brasil) and 日本語, following Anki's language by default. Every string lives in i18n/<code>.json — copy en.json, translate the strings values, and the new language appears in Settings on the next restart. Each file also carries its own month and weekday names, thousands separator and date order, so dates read naturally. Missing keys fall back to English, so a partial translation is fine, and python3 tools/check_locales.py reports gaps.

Anki's own screens — its toolbar, Add, Browse, deck options, even the rating button labels — follow Anki's language, not this setting. So after you pick a language the add-on offers to switch Anki to it as well and restart. Declining keeps your current language rather than leaving the two out of step.

📥 Install

From AnkiWeb — in Anki, Tools → Add-ons → Get Add-ons…, then paste the code 1243176816. Updates arrive automatically from then on.

From a file — download the .ankiaddon from the latest release, then Tools → Add-ons → Install from file… and pick it.

Either way, restart Anki afterwards, then open Tools → Awesome Dashboard Settings… (or the ⚙ button on the dashboard).

📄 Licence

MIT — see LICENSE.