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Bury Explain
AnkiWeb addon 1712717227
Buries repeatedly failed cards and opens an AI chat with the card's question for explanations, memory hooks, and card rewrite audits.
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- Last update or commit was 32 days before the snapshot (2026-08-30).
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- thelycoi/anki-bury-explain · more by thelycoi
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- 2026-08-30
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- AGPL-3.0
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- Python
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| Min Anki | Max Anki | Updated |
|---|---|---|
| 2.1.1 | + | 2026-07-27 |
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README
Bury Explain
AI help when you keep failing a card: auto-bury plus instant AI explanation.
What it does
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.
What it does not touch
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.
Features
- Auto-bury: cards that cross a configurable fail threshold within a time window are buried automatically.
- 6 AI providers, including a custom URL, so you can point it at whatever chat tool you actually use.
- Sidebar with persistent login, so you are not re-authenticating every session.
- Top-toolbar "AI" button: a plain-text toggle to open or hide the sidebar at any time, no failure required.
- Optional tagging: turn the tag off if you only want the bury plus AI help.
- Minimalist single-dialog options: one screen, no nested settings maze.
- Works offline-safe: reviewing continues normally if the AI provider is unreachable.
Install
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.
Configuration
| 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 |
Building
Requires only the Python 3 standard library.
python3 build.py
Produces dist/bury_explain.ankiaddon, ready to upload to AnkiWeb or
install manually.
Credits
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.
License
GNU AGPL-3.0-or-later, required for Anki add-ons.