Reading View

Reading View controls how LearnKit flashcards are rendered inside Obsidian’s reading mode.

It changes presentation, not flashcard data.

Where to configure it

Open Settings -> General -> Reading view.

The current live controls are:

• Card styling to turn LearnKit rendering on or off
• Card style to choose between Flashcards and Clean markdown
• style-specific display toggles

Current styles

LearnKit currently exposes two reading styles:

Style	What it looks like	Best for
Flashcards	Flip-style cards in a masonry layout	quick active recall while reading notes
Clean markdown	Vertical note-style blocks with readable field sections	reviewing structure and content in context

Older preset names like Classic, Guidebook, and Custom still exist in the underlying reading engine, but they are not selectable in the current settings UI.

What Flashcards style shows

Flashcards style focuses on the question and answer and supports optional inline actions:

• Show edit button
• Show audio button

This style is the most compact and study-oriented view.

What Clean markdown shows

Clean markdown style gives you field-level control over what appears:

• title
• question
• options
• answer
• info
• groups
• field labels

It uses a vertical layout and does not show the inline edit button.

What still works in reading mode

• math renders with Obsidian’s normal math pipeline
• images stay inline
• cloze content is rendered with LearnKit’s cloze styling
• text-to-speech buttons can appear when the chosen style allows them and TTS is enabled

Why use it

• check formatting before a study session
• scan a note without opening the editor for every card
• catch bad cloze wording, broken options, or misplaced extra info early

For the style-by-style breakdown, see Reading-View-Styles.

Last modified: 30/03/2026