Bloom

Bloom Focus – Animated Decks, Themes & Pomodoro

Make Anki calmer and more focused. Bloom Focus gives your deck list smooth, animated toggles, adds a Pomodoro timer to the top bar, and lets you colour Anki with pastel or fully custom themes. You choose whether the colour only touches the accents or tints the whole screen, and it always stays readable in both light and dark mode.

Smooth, clean deck toggles

• The old + / - toggles become small chevrons that rotate smoothly.
• Subdecks slide and fade in and out when you expand or collapse a deck.
• Collapsing and re-expanding happens in place, so the deck list doesn't reload or jump back to the top.
• Rows get a soft hover highlight and rounded corners, and the current deck gets an accent bar.
• Animation length and stagger are adjustable, and the animation or the styling can be switched off.

Themes that work in light and dark mode

• 12 presets: pastels (Mint, Lavender, Peach, Sky, Rose, Lemon) and classics (Tomato, Forest, Ocean, Nord, Sunset, Graphite).
• Custom colours: pick any focus colour and any break colour.
• Backgrounds, text and contrast are worked out automatically for light and dark mode, so whatever colour you choose stays readable, even when the whole page is tinted.
• A live preview shows your theme in light and dark side by side before you save.

Choose how far the colour goes

Under Apply theme to, pick one of three options:

• Off – leave Anki's main screen exactly as it is.
• Accents only (default) – only the chevrons, row hover and the current-deck highlight use your colour.
• Whole page – your colour tints the top toolbar, deck list, study screen and bottom button bar.

With Whole page, a tint strength slider (0–100%) controls how strongly the colour shows, from a faint wash to a full pastel in light mode or a deep, rich version in dark mode. The page keeps Anki's light or dark style, and text is adjusted automatically so it never gets hard to read.

Pomodoro timer

• A Pomodoro link sits in the top bar next to Decks, Add, Browse and Stats. While the timer runs, it shows the live countdown.
• Click it, or press Ctrl+Shift+P, to open the timer window with a progress ring and Start / Pause / Resume, Reset and Skip buttons.
• It cycles through focus, short break and long break, and counts your completed sessions.
• Adjustable times: focus, short break and long break lengths in minutes, plus the number of rounds before a long break.
• Optional auto-start for breaks and for the next focus session.
• Optional beep and notification when a phase ends, "always on top" mode, and a status-bar timer.
• The timer window can follow Anki's light/dark mode, or be set to always light or always dark.

Settings

Go to Tools → Bloom Focus → Settings… or click Config in the add-on list. Changes apply right away.

Compatibility

Requires Anki 2.1.50 or newer. It has no external dependencies and doesn't change your cards, notes or collection data. It only reads and saves each deck's expanded/collapsed state, exactly as Anki does when you click a toggle.

Notes

• Whole-page tinting covers Anki's main screens only: toolbar, deck list, study screen and bottom bar. The card review screen is left alone so your card templates look as designed.
• The timer runs only while Anki is open, and the completed-session count resets when Anki restarts.
• If a future Anki update changes the deck list layout, the toggles fall back to Anki's normal behaviour.
• If you used an earlier version of this add-on (Animated Deck Toggle + Pomodoro), delete it before installing this one. Settings don't carry over.

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