[image] GitHub - pranavdeshai/anki-prettify: Collection of customizable Anki... Collection of customizable Anki flashcard templates with modern and clean themes. - pranavdeshai/anki-prettify These templates should replace Anki’s default templates; as it’s har…

Anki’s default templates are deliberately simple. It makes them less daunting to customize, and there’s less that can go wrong due to platform differences.

I like creating cool templates like these, but incorporating graphical elements causes bugs, because each device has a bit different way of displaying. Win, Mac, Linux, iphone, Android ,AnkiWeb, new Qt…

I like the idea, but these cards had problem on Mac/IOS in the bottom border [image] White line in Custom CSS AnkiMobile (iPhone/iPad) White Bar on Mobile - How to Fix? Hey everyone, Got a white bar showing up at the bottom of my Anki mobile app while reviewing cards. No…

People don’t customize cards by default, having a modern looking card will improve people perception about Anki Advanced users, capable of using HTML, CSS and JS, will always be able to change their cards to their liking [image] anki-prettify/res/images/prettify-cover.png at main · pranavdeshai/…

Yes, if someone likes those templates, they could install them. I like simple templates as the starting point.

We have Basic Cloze we can just change them to: Simple Basic Simple Cloze This way, the user who wants to try HTML and CSS can use Anki simple card to customize without being daunting Not many people download templates to use them, especially non English people, since they don’t search for “t…

Simple Basic sounds weird, it’s either Simple or Basic. Let’s keep things as they are, no need to change all this. Sometimes simple CSS is better than over-complex CSS settings that might break.

Another thing to bear in mind is that we can’t deploy fixes to templates to users who’ve already got them in their collection. If some fancy formatting breaks in a platform update, it’s a pain for users to update their notetypes with the fix. I sometimes think that such fancy themes would be better…

What if we add a button in Note Type > Add Note Type called Get/Add/Install Templates which redirects users to ( https://ankiweb.net/shared/decks?search=Template ) [image] Sure there will be templates that will be missing for this search, but the majority would be there Docs changes: Adding a N…

The problem is those templates are not just styling, but also a list of fields. That makes it difficult for users to switch between different templates when experimenting or when they run into issues, which a dedicated theme feature would allow. While linking to that page would partly address the st…

I see five votes against (four plus my vote) and 1½ in favor. After thirty years in software engineering (10+ doing web work), I can assure you that the further one strays from the K.I.S.S. principle , the more likely the result is NOT portable. The purpose of Anki is to present/study information, …

Make Prettify templates the default templates

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guillerless December 18, 2024, 8:39pm 18

I’m continuting the discussion here and on Reddit before creating a PR.

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Make Prettify templates the default templates

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