Anki add-on: Overlord Focus — AI Accountability Partner: Tracks Anki, Texts, Calls, Charges

Connect Anki to Overlord — the AI accountability partner that can text you, call you, and even charge your card when you skip your daily reviews. 🔥 Overlord Focus links your Anki studying to Overlord , an AI accountability partner that doesn't just nag you — it can message you, call you, and charge real money when you don't follow through. Now it can do all of that based on whether you actually did your Anki reviews. 💸 Each day you commit a goal — a number of focused minutes (run as Pomodoro sessions) or a number of card reviews — and optionally put money on the line. From there, Overlord Focus tracks your progress and reports the honest truth to Overlord: when you start studying, when you finish, when you bail, and the moment you hit your goal. I built this for my own studying — I wanted my Anki habit wired into Overlord — and decided to publish it in case it's useful to anyone else. What it does Commit a daily goal in focused minutes or card reviews, with an optional dollar stake and a lock so you can't quietly ease it later in the day. Focus sessions — Pomodoro-style work/break blocks. A session fails if you stop answering cards, so the minutes you log are real, active study. Streaks with a quality-aware twist: alongside your goal-met streak, it tracks a "strong" streak for days you rated yourself focused rather than scattered. 🔥 A daily activity heatmap and an 8-week focus-minutes trend so you can see your trajectory. Honest reporting to Overlord — session starts, completions, failures, and goal changes all go through. Raising your goal is celebrated; easing it is logged honestly, not hidden. Smart, low-noise nudges — an adaptive goal suggestion from your recent average, a recovery prompt after a broken streak, a close-the-ring reminder, a weekly digest, and an optional flag when your retention (Again rate) suggests you're rushing. An inline toolbar readout showing your streak and today's progress at a glance. A collapsible analytics drawer that keeps deeper insights out of the way until you want them. How the goal tracking works The review count mirrors Anki's own "studied X cards today" statistic for your configured day cutoff — it follows Anki, not a separate tally — so what Overlord hears matches what Anki shows you. Setup (about two minutes, one time) Overlord Focus talks to Overlord through an IFTTT webhook. IFTTT Webhooks are part of a paid IFTTT plan (IFTTT Pro). The first time you open the add-on, a short wizard walks you through it: Create an IFTTT applet: If Webhooks (Receive a web request) → Then your Overlord "Send a message" action. Use the event name and message body the wizard gives you (copy-paste). Paste your IFTTT key and hit Send test message to confirm it works. You can re-run the wizard any time from Tools → Overlord: Setup guide , and there's a built-in Common Problems reference if anything doesn't connect. About Overlord Overlord is built by a friend of mine — it's a genuinely great accountability app, and this add-on exists because I wanted my Anki habit wired into it. Check them out: https://overlord.app/ 🙌 Privacy Nothing leaves your computer except the short status messages you send to your own IFTTT applet, which forwards them to your own Overlord chat. No accounts, no analytics, no data collection by the add-on. Note This is an independent, community-made integration. It is not officially affiliated with Overlord or IFTTT. You'll need an Overlord account and an IFTTT plan that includes Webhooks (IFTTT Pro). It was built largely with Claude Code, Anthropic's AI coding agent. Roadmap & requests Planned features and feature requests are tracked on GitHub: github.com/AliAb2000/overlord-focus Compatibility & version Requires Anki 2.1.50 or newer (both Qt5 and Qt6 builds supported). Current version: 2.8.14. Full changelog, source, and issue tracker: github.com/AliAb2000/overlord-focus Feedback and bug reports welcome via the GitHub link above.

GitHub repository: aliab2000/overlord-focus
Repository description: Connect Anki to Overlord — an AI accountability partner that texts, calls, or charges you when you skip your reviews.
Languages: Python, PowerShell, Shell
Topics: accountability, anki, anki-addon, ifttt, pomodoro, productivity, spaced-repetition, study-tools