Beautify Anki
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  • Before you install
  • ⚙️ Configuration and Customization
    • Backgrounds and deck icons
    • Main settings
    • Customizing the themes
      • Creating your own themes
    • ❓FAQ
  • 🖼️ Gallery
    • Default theme
    • Starry theme
    • Flamingo theme
    • Sunrise theme
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  1. ⚙️ Configuration and Customization

Main settings

Changing The main settings

The default customization settings are stored in the config.json file which you can access through:

Anki's menu bar ➡️ tools ➡️ add-ons choose "Beautify Anki" then > Configuration

and it looks like this:

{
    "animation": true,
    "change answer buttons": true,
    "date_format": "eu",
    "note_correction_factors": {
        "English": 2,
        "Fr": 2
    },
    "theme": "default"
}

Option

Usage

Default value

possible values

animation

set it to true. if you want the background to cycle through the 5 background images and to have text animation. Or, false to turn all the animation off.

true

true , false

change answer buttons

true

true , false

date_format

"eu"

  • "us" displays as "%m/%d/%Y", meaning Month/Day/Year, ex: 04/26/1994

  • "asia" displays as "%Y/%m/%d", meaning Year/Month/Day, ex: 1994/04/26

  • "eu" displays as "%d.%m.%Y", meaning Day.Month.Year, ex: 26.04.1994

note_correction_factors

without using note correction factor

theme

to select the theme of the addon

"default"

"default" , "starry" , "flamingo" , "sunrise" ,"your custome made theme"

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set it to true if you want to change the appearance of the answer buttons . Or, false if you are using other addons that changes the answer buttons like or

to change the date format in the remaining widget in deck overview pages

If you want the add-on to display the number of notes in a deck, instead of the number of cards in the config Edit the note_correction_factors as follows to add a line that includes the beginning of the deck name (including all superdecks) and the number of different cards in the note type in the deck. example : "note_correction_factors": { "Custom": 2 , "English" : 3 }

using note correction factor

Minimal Flat Big Buttons
Large and Colorful Buttons