⏭️ Skip Cards — Anki Add-on

🃏 Skip cards you don't want to review right now. They'll come back at the end of your session!

📖 About

Skip Cards is a simple Anki add-on that lets you defer cards during a review session. When you skip a card, it's temporarily set aside and automatically brought back after all your other cards have been reviewed — so nothing gets lost and your scheduling is unaffected. 🎯

📦 Installation

Via AnkiWeb (recommended) ⭐

1. Open Anki and go to Tools → Add-ons → Get Add-ons...
2. Enter the code: 1484305783
3. Restart Anki. 🔁

🔗 AnkiWeb page

Manual installation 🛠️

1. Download or clone this repository.
2. Copy the folder into your Anki add-ons directory (Tools → Add-ons → Open Add-ons Folder).
3. Restart Anki.

🚀 Usage

1. Start a review session as usual.
2. When you want to skip a card, go to Tools → Skip card in the menu bar.
3. The card will be set aside and the next card will appear. ➡️
4. After all remaining cards are reviewed, your skipped cards will be shown automatically. 🔄

🔍 How it works

The add-on uses Anki's built-in bury_cards and unbury_cards scheduler methods to temporarily hide skipped cards during the session. Card IDs are tracked in memory and unburied once the queue is empty — no changes are made to Anki's spaced repetition algorithm. 🧠

def skip_card() -> None:
    current_card = mw.reviewer.card
    if current_card is not None:
        mw.col.sched.bury_cards([current_card.id])
        skipped_cards_id.append(current_card.id)
        mw.reset()

def show_skipped_cards() -> None:
    if skipped_cards_id:
        mw.col.sched.unbury_cards(skipped_cards_id)
        skipped_cards_id.clear()

🖥️ Compatibility

• ✅ Latest version of Anki (2.1.x)

🛠️ Development Setup

Want to modify the code? Here's how to set up your development environment.

Prerequisites

• 🐍 Python 64-bit (version compatible with your Anki installation)
• 💡 PyCharm Community Edition (recommended) or any editor like VS Code

⚠️ Important: You cannot run add-ons directly from within PyCharm. Add-ons must be run from inside Anki itself.

Steps

1. Clone the repository

git clone https://github.com/zHenryTM/Skip_Cards.git

2. Open the project in PyCharm and create a new project pointing to the cloned folder.

3. Install Anki's dependencies for type hints and code completion. Open the Python Console in PyCharm (bottom left) and run:

import subprocess

subprocess.check_call(["pip3", "install", "--upgrade", "pip"])
subprocess.check_call(["pip3", "install", "mypy", "aqt[qt6]"])

Wait for the installation to complete. You should now have full code completion for Anki's API. ✅

4. Link the add-on to Anki for testing. Copy the project folder into your Anki add-ons directory:

Tools → Add-ons → Open Add-ons Folder

5. Restart Anki after any changes to see them in effect. 🔁

📚 For a more in-depth guide, check out the official Anki Add-on Development Docs.

🤝 Contributing

Contributions, bug reports, and suggestions are welcome! Feel free to open an issue or submit a pull request. 🐛

📄 License

This project is licensed under the MIT License.