ANTRA (Beta) – calm study dashboard, topic tree and dark look for Anki

⚠ BETA VERSION. Your data is designed to stay safe (ANTRA changes nothing in your decks unless you switch it on), but please keep a backup. Provided as it is, without warranty; the authors take no responsibility for loss or damage. See Beta notice below.

What is ANTRA?

ANTRA gives Anki a calm, organised home screen for studying a whole course or exam syllabus.

Anki's deck list is a flat list. That works for a few decks, but when you are working through dozens of topics you lose the overview: what is due today, how long it will take, which subject is falling behind, where to start. ANTRA replaces that list with one quiet dark page that answers those questions at a glance, and it keeps your decks exactly where they are.

It is made for students with large, structured decks (medicine, law, languages, anything with chapters), and it works for decks you already have. There is nothing to convert or import.

What you get

• Today at a glance: workload with an estimated study time, progress, difficult and overdue cards, a weekly overview and an activity map.
• Your subjects as a tree: subject → section → topic → sub-deck, to open and close. With the Organise editor you set the order, give things display names and colours, and include decks from anywhere in your collection.
• Everything Anki's deck list does: rename, options, export and delete on every deck, the current deck marked, "studied today" kept.
• A quick start: an optional "what do you want to study today?" question when Anki opens, and one click to switch subject.
• A calm look: a dark theme for Anki's own screens and, if you like, for your cards, with a colour per subject. Your name in the greeting and your own accent colour.

Safe by default

By default ANTRA only reads your collection. These options are yours to switch on, each with an undo:

• Fixed card order / new cards per day: changes the deck options of the decks under your main deck. The originals are recorded (Restore original deck options).
• Struggling-cards folder: card flags, one filtered deck, new due dates for cards that recovered (Reset folder).
• Card theme: CSS and templates of your note types (Remove card theme).

It never edits or deletes your notes, tags, media, card content or review history, and it sends nothing anywhere.

Setup

1. Install, then restart Anki.
2. Pick your main deck on the welcome screen. One click. Optionally enter your name.
3. Optional: Tools → ANTRA → Karten-Theme anwenden (make a backup first).

Beta notice

This is a beta version. ANTRA only changes your decks and cards if you switch an option on, every such change can be undone, and nothing is sent anywhere, so your data is designed to stay safe. Still, please keep a backup (Tools → Create Backup). ANTRA is provided as it is, without any warranty, and its authors take no responsibility for any loss or damage (see the licence).

If Anki crashes or shows graphics glitches: open Tools → ANTRA → Einstellungen (Settings), untick Apply the ANTRA look to Anki's own screens, and tell me what happened.

Good to know

• Needs Anki 26.09 or newer. Tested on macOS; Windows and Linux are untested (beta).
• iPad and iPhone: add-ons cannot run there. The card theme, fixed order and struggling-cards deck sync; the dashboard is desktop-only.
• English and German interface. Free software (AGPL-3.0-or-later). Works offline.
• Feedback and bug reports are very welcome.