Alternatives to Persistent Editor

Keeps the editor window open during review, obscuring card fields on the front and revealing them on the back, with shortcuts and optional presentation mode.

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Displays the note editor in multiple columns using automatic, manual, or custom grid-area layouts, with shortcuts to toggle modes and temporarily widen a field.

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Displays up to four note fields in clean, customizable boxes after the answer is revealed, with side-by-side or 2×2 layouts, image zoom, and a show/hide hotkey.

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Improves cloze display by distinguishing genuine and pseudo clozes, allowing click or keyboard/touchscreen revealing, automatic scrolling, and basic no-cloze notes.

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Enables editing cards directly during review via double-click in-place editing or a persistent editor window that auto-loads the current card and hides fields on the front.

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Highlights selected question or answer text on the review screen via a four-color palette, saving highlights as persistent HTML with eraser and undo support.

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Enables easy customization, installation and updating of AnKing note types, with configurable options, field ordering, auto-reveal tags, image blurring and one-by-one cloze features.

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Turns PDFs or single images into image-occlusion cloze decks, with a built-in mask editor and context-preserving review through page navigation and PDF scroll view.

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Adds a customizable pacing HUD that tracks front and back review times, adapts timer targets via EMA and session flow, shows visual rewards, and leaves Anki scheduling unchanged.

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Opens a clinical-evidence search sidebar beside the reviewer, sending cleaned card text through preset or selected-text questions and returning cited answers without leaving Anki.

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Adds visual Browser layouts, tabs, zoom, explorer-style navigation, drag-and-drop organization, folder colours, and a grid-based note-type manager with counters, quick editors, nested folders, and JSON import/export.

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Persists data between the front and back sides of Anki cards, enabling consistent random values, shuffled answers, or reused user input.

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