Mere Exposure: Passive Learning Wallpapers

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Turns your hardest flashcards into customizable desktop wallpapers for passive learning, tracking difficulty and updating automatically after reviews.
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Updated: 2026-09-23
Anki versions: 26.05~
Description language: en

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Mere Exposure Effect: Flashcard Wallpapers Leverage the "mere exposure effect" to master your most difficult Anki flashcards passively. This add-on tracks the cards you struggle and sets them to your wallpapers, updating on all your personal devices. 🌟 Key Features Intelligent Difficulty Tracking: Automatically analyzes your recent review sessions to identify your hardest cards based on metrics like Ease or Retrievability . Dynamic Wallpaper Generation: Renders your flashcard's title, text, tags, and images into a stunning, native desktop wallpaper without interrupting your workflow. Fully Customizable: A robust configuration menu lets you fine-tune the look: Choose between Light, Dark, or randomized themes. Independently adjust Top, Bottom, Left, and Right margins. Granularly customize the font family and size for Titles, Body text, Badges, and Tags using your system's native fonts. OS Shuffle Integration: Designed to play nicely with native OS features like macOS "Shuffle Folder". The add-on safely archives old wallpapers and cleanly updates static file paths so your desktop transitions seamlessly. Auto or Manual Triggers: Set it to update automatically at the end of every study session/sync, or update it manually with a single click from the Anki toolbar. ⚙️ How to Use Install the add-on and restart Anki. Go to Tools > Mere Exposure > Config to set your preferences, difficulty metric, and output directory (default is ~/Pictures/AnkiWallpapers ). Point your computer's Desktop Background settings to the output directory and (optionally) set it to shuffle! Do your reviews! The add-on will silently generate and update the wallpapers when you finish your session which will update your wallpaper accordingly as you master difficult concepts and learn new ones. As a Bonus, sync your folder to set wallpapers on your other devices with their own custom resolution/sizes. Use this shortcut for iOS Turn your wallpaper into a passive learning tool. Happy studying! (Updated to support IO Cards)