AnkiWeb addon 522494534
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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| Min Anki | Max Anki | Updated |
|---|---|---|
| 2.1.1 | – | 2026-09-19 |
| 2.1.2 | – | 2026-09-21 |
| 2.1.3 | – | 2026-09-23 |
| 2.1.4 | – | 2026-09-23 |
| 2.1.5 | – | 2026-09-25 |
| 2.1.6 | – | 2026-09-26 |
| 2.1.7 | – | 2026-09-26 |
| 2.1.8 | – | 2026-09-26 |
| 2.1.9 | – | 2026-09-26 |
| 2.1.10 | – | 2026-09-27 |
| 2.1.11 | – | 2026-10-02 |
| 2.1.12 | + | 2026-10-09 |
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Creates mind maps inside Anki and links them bidirectionally to flashcards, enabling visual organization, node editing, and navigation between maps and review cards.
Turns Anki notes into interactive mind maps with customizable connections, minimap navigation, rich content rendering, and in-context review.
Transforms the deck browser into a gallery of elegant cards with customizable covers, icons, progress indicators, and deck statistics for more visual, organized navigation.
Creates interactive drag-and-drop flashcards where you label images or sort items into categories, with instant feedback, shuffling, theme and layout options, across Anki Desktop, AnkiDroid and AnkiMobile.
Transforms Anki's home screen into a customizable study dashboard with 34+ coordinated light/dark scenes, drag-and-drop widgets, progress stats, a review calendar heatmap, and countdown timers.
Adds click, wheel, and arrow-key image zooming with panning, plus a beta right-click ECG ruler that measures time by dragging and displays results.
Anki Explorer is a visual productivity and organization add-on for Anki.
It enhances two major parts of Anki:
It adds visual Browser layouts, zoom controls, Explorer-style navigation, tabs, drag-and-drop organization, coloured folders, a visual Note Type Grid, nested note-type folders, note/card statistics, quick template editing, and JSON note-type import/export.
The current Browser implementation also includes root-folder navigation, deck-aware address history, an F7 side-panel toggle, Anki-style rendered audio controls, and keyboard navigation across Gallery and Visual Mode cards.
The Browser can be displayed using different visual layouts:
Changing the visual layout does not modify your underlying cards, notes, or decks.
Resize Browser content using:
Zoom can resize visual Browser elements such as thumbnails, cards, text, and other supported content.
The selected zoom level can persist between Anki sessions.
The Browser includes navigation inspired by desktop file managers.
At the Anki root, visual Browser modes show deck folders instead of displaying cards from every deck together. Open a folder to see the cards in that deck. Child decks appear inside their parent deck, so the root behaves like a normal folder navigator.
The separate Show deck folders switch has been removed. Root folders are always shown by default, while cards appear after entering a deck or applying a search.
When Browse is opened from a selected deck, the address bar follows that deck automatically and displays its complete path, for example:
Anki > Languages > Japanese > Advanced Hiragana
Open multiple Browser locations using tabs.
Decks can be visually organized using drag and drop.
For example:
Japanese ├── Vocabulary ├── Grammar └── Kanji
A deck can be dragged into another deck where supported, making deck organization feel more like a normal file manager.
Supports familiar selection behavior such as:
Additional right-click actions are available depending on the current item and view.
The Browser side panel can be toggled globally with F7. The Panel menu also includes Show panel (F7), along with the available editor, rendered preview, and card-details modes.
The panel follows the selected card and can show the editor, a rendered Front/Back preview, or card details. When disabled, the Browser returns to its full-width layout.
Audio in rendered previews, Gallery cards, and Visual Mode uses Anki-style play buttons instead of oversized placeholder shapes. Clicking a button routes playback through Anki's audio player, including audio inside card templates and isolated rendered card frames.
Gallery remains a continuous card workspace while using pages internally to keep large collections responsive. The Previous and Next controls change rendered pages; arrow keys move between individual cards and continue across page boundaries.
Deck/folder entries can be assigned custom colours.
Right-click a supported deck/folder and choose:
Organise → Folder Colour
Available options include:
The interaction is inspired by the folder-colour workflow used in services such as Google Drive.
Folder colours persist between sessions.
The add-on also enhances Anki's Choose Note Type interface.
Two main viewing modes are available:
List View intentionally remains close to Anki's normal note-type interface.
This view is intended for users who prefer Anki's traditional compact note-type chooser.
Grid View provides a more visual interface for browsing and managing note types.
Each note type appears as a tile.
Unselected tiles remain clean and minimal.
Additional information and controls appear only after the note type is selected.
When a note type is selected, its tile can reveal:
This keeps the Grid uncluttered when you are browsing a large number of note types.
The selected note type displays how many notes currently use that note type.
Example:
Notes: 1,284
The selected tile also displays how many actual Anki cards are generated from those notes.
Example:
Flashcards: 2,568
Notes and Flashcards are intentionally shown separately because a single Anki note can generate multiple cards.
The note-type interface can also show information about the card templates belonging to that note type.
For example:
2 Card Templates
This is different from the Flashcards count.
A note type may contain two card templates while those templates generate thousands of actual cards.
Selecting a note type reveals a Fields button.
Clicking it opens that note type's Fields editor directly.
This reduces the need to repeatedly navigate through Manage Note Types.
The Cards button opens the selected note type's Card Templates editor directly.
This provides quick access to:
The Styling button provides quick access to the card template styling / CSS editor.
This makes it faster to modify the visual appearance of a note type without navigating through multiple Anki dialogs.
Note types can be organized into visual folders.
For example:
Languages ├── Japanese ├── Sanskrit └── Latin University ├── Literature ├── Linguistics └── Psychology
These folders are organizational metadata used by the add-on.
They do not rename or modify the underlying Anki note types.
Folders can contain other folders.
For example:
Languages
└── Japanese
├── N5
│ ├── Vocabulary
│ └── Grammar
└── N4
This makes it possible to organize large note-type collections into meaningful hierarchies.
Nested folders support breadcrumb-style navigation.
For example:
All Note Types > Languages > Japanese > N5
The breadcrumb allows you to quickly return to previous levels.
Folders can be created directly from the Note Type interface.
If you create a folder while already inside another folder, the new folder becomes part of that hierarchy.
The interface simply uses:
New Folder
rather than separating the concepts of "folder" and "subfolder."
Grid View supports selecting several note types at once.
Selected note types can then be organized together.
Note types can be dragged directly into organizational folders.
If several note types are selected, dragging one of the selected tiles can move the entire selected group.
Nested folders can also be used as drop destinations.
Clicking an empty area of the Note Type window clears the current selection.
This provides behavior similar to a desktop file manager.
Grid View supports visual resizing.
Use:
Zooming can adjust:
The selected Grid zoom level persists between sessions.
Zooming is intentionally silent, with no distracting size-percentage popup.
Individual note types can be imported and exported as standard .json files.
A note type can be exported using:
Example filename:
Japanese Vocabulary.json
Use Import Note Type to recreate a compatible note-type definition from a JSON file.
If a note type with the same name already exists, the importer avoids silently overwriting the existing note type.
The exported JSON represents the reusable definition of the note type.
It can include:
The JSON can also contain informational metadata describing the original note type.
For example:
{
"source_stats": {
"notes": 1284,
"flashcards": 2568,
"field_count": 5,
"template_count": 2
}
}
These statistics describe the source collection only.
They do not recreate those notes or cards when the note type is imported.
JSON note-type export is intended for sharing the note-type design, not complete study data.
It does not export:
Use Anki's normal .apkg or collection export tools when you need to transfer decks and study data.
The add-on deliberately uses ordinary .json files instead of introducing another custom file extension.
Benefits include:
Where appropriate, the add-on remembers supported interface preferences between Anki sessions.
Examples include:
The add-on is designed to enhance Anki's interface rather than replace Anki's underlying data model.
If you encounter a bug, please include:
Feedback and feature suggestions are welcome.
Anki Explorer
A more visual, organized, and flexible way to work with Anki's Browser and note types.