Anki add-on: Bury Explain

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).

GitHub repository: thelycoi/anki-bury-explain
Repository description: Anki add-on: after repeated fails, auto-bury the card and open an AI with the question pre-searched + a 20-rules card-formulation audit.
Languages: Python
Topics: ai, anki, anki-addon, flashcards, spaced-repetition, srs