Comment cards (by Ankicraf)

AnkiWeb addon 1657989789

Adds private per-card annotation notes accessible via a review speech bubble, with search, browser column, export, and import, without modifying card content or scheduling.
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Updated
2026-08-06
Anki versions
26.12~
License
AGPL-3.0 (from the license file in the package)
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Languages
Python, JavaScript, CSS, JSON
Description language
en

Maintenance

active

  • Last update or commit: 2026-08-06 (87 days before the snapshot).

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Description

You've seen this card ten times and you still fall for it — you mix it up with another one, or there's a nuance that never sticks. You know exactly what your problem with it is. You just have nowhere to write it down. CardNotes gives you a sticky note on the back of every card. 📝

CardNotes gives Anki the private margin notes it's missing.

  • 📝 Write what you keep getting wrong, in your own words — your card content, tags and scheduling are never touched.
  • 💬 A small speech bubble appears while reviewing, so you spot an annotated card before you even answer it.
  • 👀 Hover the bubble to read your note without opening anything.
  • ⌨️ One key to write: press c mid-review, or right-click the card, or use the More button.
  • 🔎 Search your annotations from Tools and jump straight to the matching cards in the browser.
  • 📋 Turn on the Annotation column in the browser to read all your notes at a glance.
  • 💾 Export them to a file and import them on another computer, so they're yours to keep.
  • 🌍 English and Spanish, picked automatically from your Anki language.

HOW TO USE

  1. While reviewing, press c (or right-click the card → Annotation for this card…).
  2. Type your note and press Save — Ctrl+Enter saves and closes in one go.
  3. The bubble now appears on that card; click it any time to read or edit.
  4. Everything else lives under Tools → CardNotes: search, export, import, clean up.

SETTINGS
There are none, on purpose — it works the same from the moment you install it, so the Config button in Tools → Add-ons stays greyed out. The extras are under Tools → CardNotes.

YOUR DATA
Nothing is ever written to your collection. Annotations live in the add-on's own folder, the one Anki preserves across updates, and are written safely with a backup copy kept alongside. They stay on this computer — they do not travel with AnkiWeb sync — so use Tools → CardNotes → Export if you study on more than one machine. Uninstalling the add-on removes them with it.

COMPATIBILITY
Built and checked against Anki 25.09. Tested on Windows only so far — reports from macOS and Linux are very welcome.

CHANGELOG

v1.0.0 — 2026-07-14 — Initial release.

Free forever, and open source (AGPLv3).
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