AnkiWeb addon 1712717227
Automatically buries cards failed repeatedly within a set time window and opens an AI chat explaining the card and auditing its formulation.
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| Min Anki | Max Anki | Updated |
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| 2.1.1 | + | 2026-07-27 |
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Automatically alerts, reveals answers, or fails cards when reviews take too long, with per-deck settings to encourage faster, more focused study.
Adds an Explain button and dockable sidebar that uses Gemini AI to generate flashcard explanations, mnemonics, related concepts, and follow-up chat, with streaming responses and customizable prompts.
Automatically buries cards repeatedly answered again within 24 hours, with options to tag or flag difficult cards and bury manually from the Browser.
Automatically buries cards failed three times consecutively in one day, with a configurable failure streak and a pause option in the Tools menu.
Buries repeatedly failed relearning cards and suspends and tags review cards with very long intervals, using configurable thresholds and opt-out tags, for the v2 scheduler only.
Plays customizable sounds and visual effects when reviews start, answers are clicked, decks are completed, or cards are repeatedly failed.
Bury Explain — AI help when you keep failing a card
Grinding the same card over and over doesn't build memory — it builds frustration. Bury Explain watches for cards you fail repeatedly and steps in: after you press "Again" too many times within a time window, it automatically buries the card for the day AND opens an AI chat with your card's question already searched, so you get a real explanation instead of another failed rep.
What it does
• Auto-bury — cards that cross your fail threshold (default: 3 times in 24h) are buried automatically, so a leech stops eating your review session.
• Instant AI explanation — the card's content is sent to your chosen AI with a prompt that asks for a simple explanation, a memory hook, and what you're likely confusing it with.
• Card-formulation audit — the AI also checks your card against Piotr Wozniak's "Twenty rules of formulating knowledge" and suggests concrete rewrites for any rule it breaks. Often the reason you keep failing isn't you — it's the card.
• 6 AI providers — ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, DuckDuckGo AI, Google AI, or any custom URL you point it at.
• Built-in sidebar — opens the AI right inside Anki and keeps you logged in between sessions. Or set it to open your system browser instead. A plain-text "AI" button in the toolbar lets you toggle it anytime.
• Minimalist options — one clean settings screen. Set your threshold, time window, provider, whether to bury, whether to tag, and edit the prompt however you like.
Fully configurable
Threshold, time window, AI provider, bury on/off, tag on/off, notifications, and the complete prompt template are all editable from a single options dialog (Tools → Bury Explain Options, or the add-on's Config button).
Notes
Reviewing is never interrupted — if the AI provider is unreachable, Anki keeps working normally and the error is shown, not swallowed. Image-occlusion cards are skipped by default (there's no useful text to send).
Inspired by AJT Mortician (auto-bury), Anki Terminator (AI sidebar), and my own Bury Explain Bridge — reimagined as one clean-room add-on, plus a 20-rules card audit. No code from those add-ons is included; credited as inspiration only.
Open source (AGPL-3.0). Source, issues, and releases: https://github.com/TheLycoi/anki-bury-explain
Requires Anki 2.1.50+ (Qt6).
AI help when you keep failing a card: auto-bury plus instant AI explanation.
Fail a card too many times in a short window and Bury Explain buries it, optionally tags it, and opens your preferred AI chat provider with the card's content pre-searched, so you get an explanation immediately instead of grinding the same card into the ground.
Bury Explain only runs inside Anki's reviewer_did_answer_card hook, which
fires after Anki has already written the review to its log and updated the
card's scheduling state. So your fail is scored normally no matter what the
add-on does next, and burying only moves the card's due date; it does not
undo or backdate the grade. The add-on also never writes AI output into your
notes or fields. It sends the card's text to whichever provider you
configured and opens the reply in a sidebar or browser; nothing comes back
into your collection.
From AnkiWeb: https://ankiweb.net/shared/info/1712717227, or in Anki go to
Tools > Add-ons > Get Add-ons and paste the code 1712717227.
Manually: download the latest bury_explain.ankiaddon and double-click it
to install into Anki.
| Key | Description | Default |
|---|---|---|
enabled |
Turn the add-on on or off | true |
again_threshold |
Number of "Again" presses within the window before a card is buried | 3 |
timeframe_hours |
Rolling window (in hours) the threshold is counted over | 24 |
bury |
Whether matching cards are actually buried | true |
add_tag |
Whether the note is tagged when triggered | true |
tag |
Tag applied to buried cards (only when add_tag is on) |
buryexplain-leech |
ignore_new_cards |
Skip cards still in the "new" queue | false |
skip_image_cards |
Don't trigger on image / occlusion note types | true |
show_notification |
Show an in-app notification when a card is buried | true |
provider |
Which AI provider to open | ChatGPT |
custom_url |
URL template used when provider is custom |
(empty) |
open_in |
Where the provider opens, sidebar or browser | sidebar |
prompt_template |
Template used to pre-fill the AI query with the card's content; asks for a simple explanation, a mnemonic, likely confusions, and an audit against Wozniak's 20 rules of formulating knowledge with concrete rewrite suggestions | built-in default |
Requires only the Python 3 standard library.
python3 build.py
Produces dist/bury_explain.ankiaddon, ready to upload to AnkiWeb or
install manually.
Inspired by AJT Mortician (Ajatt-Tools, AGPL) and Anki Terminator by Shigeyuki. No code from either is included; this is an independent implementation. Not affiliated with either project.
GNU AGPL-3.0-or-later, required for Anki add-ons.