MeDoer Anki Pomodoro Timer Add on

A focus timer for Anki that notices when you stop paying attention. Opening Anki and actually reviewing are two different things. This add-on puts a timer in a panel beside your reviewer and watches whether cards are moving. Sit on the same card too long, or click away mid-session, and it says something. Keep drifting and it pauses on its own. Come back to your cards and it starts again by itself, with nothing to click. How insistent it gets is up to you, anywhere from a faint border to a full alarm, and the sounds are configurable. That whole layer can also be switched off if you only want the timer. New in 2.6 The fullscreen timer has always had a slow drifting background. It now runs behind Anki itself. Six color sets are included: A small M button sits in the bottom-left corner, and everything lives behind it. Start and pause, the colors, sliders for how strong each part reads. To change the session length, pause and click the time, then type over it. Both 25:00 and plain 25 work, and Enter saves. Two separate switches decide where the background appears: on the deck screens, while reviewing, or both. Leaving it on the deck screens only is a reasonable middle ground if movement behind a card is distracting. The countdown can sit behind your cards as well, large and faint like a watermark. It starts low on the screen so it stays out of the way of the text, with sliders for size and position if that placement doesn't suit your note types. By default the color fills the space around cards and leaves the cards themselves alone, since many note types set their own background for contrast. Letting it through the card is a separate switch you have to turn on. All of this ships off. The M button can be hidden too, in which case every setting is still reachable from the MeDoer menu in the menu bar, alongside a short page explaining what each one does. The rest of it Review stats sit on the timer while you work rather than behind the Stats screen: cards done today, new cards, minutes, retention, what's due, mature count, day streak. Show the ones that matter to you and hide the rest. Daily targets are supported too, either a number you set or whatever happens to be due that day, with a small bar that fills as you clear it. The Pomodoro side behaves as expected, with focus and break blocks and a card goal for each session. One deliberate difference: hitting the goal doesn't stop the clock, it starts counting upward, so a session in progress can be finished properly. A quiet chime fires if one card has been on screen too long. Deck planning works from your exam dates. Assign decks to an exam and the add-on calculates the new cards and reviews needed each day to finish in time. One click writes those numbers into the deck as its own options preset, leaving every other deck untouched, and once the exam has passed it offers to clean the preset up again. Smaller pieces round it out. A mountain-climbing view puts your next exam at the summit and moves you a step up the trail for every completed session. The panel collapses into a small always-on-top window when it needs to be out of the way. And with a free MeDoer account, sessions and reviews follow you between devices and feed longer-term streak and consistency tracking. Opening it The MeDoer menu in the menu bar, next to Help, holds the panel, the background settings and the help page. There is also a MeDoer button in Anki's toolbar beside Sync, and Ctrl+Shift+P for anyone who prefers shortcuts. The app is bundled inside the add-on, so it opens instantly and works with no connection, then syncs once you're back online. Want to know more about MeDoer? The add-on is one piece of a larger study planner that lives at medoer.app . It's built for students working through a full semester at once rather than a single course. The planner starts from your actual schedule. Subscribe a calendar feed or import an .ics file and lectures, labs and deadlines get pulled in and tagged by course. From there it builds a study plan around your exam dates, with a few different scheduling modes depending on how much control you want: place everything yourself, let it fill the gaps, or hand it the whole term. Study blocks land on a day-by-day timeline you can rearrange, and anything you miss rolls forward instead of quietly disappearing. Exams get their own setup, where the study methods and pacing you pick per exam shape what ends up on the calendar. There's a drag-and-drop board for triaging what's actually next, using layouts like Eisenhower quadrants, grouping by course, or a Gantt view across the weeks ahead. An insights section tracks how consistent you've been, which courses are getting the hours and where the streaks are. Everything syncs to a free account and runs in any browser, on a phone or tablet as readily as a laptop. Accounts are free, there are no ads, and the Anki add-on feeds straight into it, so review sessions logged here show up in the same place as the rest of your semester.

Min Anki	Max Anki	Updated
2.1.1	–	2026-08-02
2.1.2	+	2026-08-09

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