diff --git a/frontend/src/components/misc/Modal.vue b/frontend/src/components/misc/Modal.vue
index 5a3fedc98..b654e0268 100644
--- a/frontend/src/components/misc/Modal.vue
+++ b/frontend/src/components/misc/Modal.vue
@@ -68,7 +68,7 @@ const props = withDefaults(defineProps<{
 	enabled?: boolean,
 	overflow?: boolean,
 	wide?: boolean,
-	variant?: 'default' | 'hint-modal' | 'scrolling',
+	variant?: 'default' | 'hint-modal' | 'scrolling' | 'top',
 }>(), {
 	enabled: true,
 	overflow: false,
@@ -211,7 +211,13 @@ $modal-width: 1024px;
 	// Reset UA dialog styles
 	padding: 0;
 	border: none;
-	background: transparent;
+	// The scrim lives on the dialog element, not on ::backdrop: Chromium
+	// intermittently stops painting a styled ::backdrop (e.g. after the
+	// dialog's subtree re-renders, or while display is transitioned) even
+	// though getComputedStyle still reports the color. The dialog fills the
+	// viewport anyway, and its opacity transition fades the scrim with it —
+	// same as the old div-based .modal-mask.
+	background: rgba(0, 0, 0, .8);
 	color: #ffffff;
 	// Fill viewport
 	position: fixed;
@@ -221,10 +227,12 @@ $modal-width: 1024px;
 	max-inline-size: 100%;
 	max-block-size: 100%;
 
-	// Transitions
+	// Transitions. No display/allow-discrete transition needed: the close
+	// fade runs while the dialog is still [open] (data-closing + timer in
+	// closeDialog), and transitioning display triggers the Chromium paint
+	// bug above.
 	opacity: 0;
-	transition: opacity 150ms ease,
-				display 150ms ease allow-discrete;
+	transition: opacity 150ms ease;
 
 	&[open]:not([data-closing]) {
 		opacity: 1;
@@ -236,16 +244,11 @@ $modal-width: 1024px;
 
 	&::backdrop {
 		background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);
-		transition: background-color 150ms ease,
-					display 150ms ease allow-discrete;
 	}
 
-	&[open]:not([data-closing])::backdrop {
-		background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, .8);
-
-		@starting-style {
-			background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);
-		}
+	// in quick-add mode the Electron window itself is the overlay — no scrim
+	&:has(.is-quick-add-mode) {
+		background: transparent;
 	}
 }
 
@@ -261,7 +264,8 @@ $modal-width: 1024px;
 }
 
 .default .modal-content,
-.hint-modal .modal-content {
+.hint-modal .modal-content,
+.top .modal-content {
 	text-align: center;
 	position: absolute;
 	// fine to use top/left since we're only using this to position it centered
@@ -289,11 +293,31 @@ $modal-width: 1024px;
 	}
 }
 
+// anchored below the top edge instead of centered, used for QuickActions
+.top .modal-content {
+	inset-block-start: 3rem;
+	transform: translate(-50%, 0);
+	max-block-size: calc(100dvh - 6rem);
+	overflow: auto;
+
+	[dir="rtl"] & {
+		transform: translate(50%, 0);
+	}
+
+	// the fullscreen mobile layout flows and scrolls in .modal-container
+	@media screen and (max-width: $tablet) {
+		transform: none;
+		max-block-size: none;
+		overflow: visible;
+	}
+}
+
 // Default width for centered modals. Scoped with :not(.is-wide) so the
 // `wide` prop can still expand the modal (the .is-wide rule below would
 // otherwise be outranked by .default .modal-content's specificity).
 .default .modal-content:not(.is-wide),
-.hint-modal .modal-content:not(.is-wide) {
+.hint-modal .modal-content:not(.is-wide),
+.top .modal-content:not(.is-wide) {
 	inline-size: calc(100% - 2rem);
 	max-inline-size: 640px;
 
@@ -403,6 +427,7 @@ $modal-width: 1024px;
 		block-size: auto;
 		max-inline-size: none;
 		max-block-size: none;
+		background: transparent;
 
 		&::backdrop {
 			display: none;
diff --git a/frontend/src/components/quick-actions/QuickActions.vue b/frontend/src/components/quick-actions/QuickActions.vue
index 13605fe4f..3656d5e89 100644
--- a/frontend/src/components/quick-actions/QuickActions.vue
+++ b/frontend/src/components/quick-actions/QuickActions.vue
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
 	<Modal
 		:enabled="active"
 		:overflow="isNewTaskCommand"
+		variant="top"
 		@close="closeQuickActions"
 	>
 		<div
@@ -704,15 +705,16 @@ function reset() {
 
 <style lang="scss" scoped>
 .quick-actions {
+	// global Bulma .card styles are gone (ported into Card.vue, scoped),
+	// so this bare .card div needs its own card visuals
+	background-color: var(--white);
+	border-radius: $radius;
+	border: 1px solid var(--card-border-color);
+	box-shadow: var(--shadow-sm);
+	color: var(--text);
 	overflow: hidden;
 	justify-content: flex-start !important;
 
-	// FIXME: changed position should be an option of the modal
-	:deep(.modal-content) {
-		inset-block-start: 3rem;
-		transform: translate(-50%, 0);
-	}
-
 	&.is-quick-add-mode {
 		padding: 0;
 		margin: 0;