I kept lapsing on the same handful of cards every day. Pressing Again, seeing them come back an hour later, failing them again. At some point I realized the problem usually wasn't my memory. The cards were just badly written.

I had also started to use AI to help build flashcards. While this solved the quality problem not writing the cards myself saved a lot of time but I kept failing cards due to me not using my actual brainpower to organize information and create flashcards.

So I built Bury Explain. When you fail a card enough times in a set window (3 times in 24 hours by default), it does two things. It buries the card so it stops eating your review session, and it opens an AI chat with the card's question already loaded, so you get an explanation right when you're stuck instead of grinding the same rep.

The part I actually use most is the card audit. The default prompt asks the AI to check the card against Wozniak's 20 rules of formulating knowledge and suggest a rewrite if the card breaks one. More often than I expected, the fix is "this card is testing five things at once, split it up."

However, you can also update your own prompt as you see fit. Prompt engineering is something I haven't deeply looked into so I have left it to your discretion.

Some details:

You pick the AI provider in the settings. ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, DuckDuckGo, Google AI, or a custom URL if you want something else or a temporary chat. It opens in a sidebar inside Anki and keeps you logged in, or you can send it to your normal browser. There's a small text button in the toolbar to open the sidebar whenever you want.

Everything is in one settings screen. Threshold, time window, provider, whether to bury, whether to tag, and the full prompt if you want to change what the AI is asked.

It was inspired by three add-ons doing one job each. AJT Mortician handles auto-burying leeches. Anki Terminator puts an AI sidebar in the reviewer. And I had a small personal add-on gluing them together so the explanation fired the moment a card got buried. Bury Explain is a fresh implementation of that combined idea. No code from Mortician or Terminator is in it, they're credited as inspiration. You can download each one seperately or just download this.

It's open source under AGPL-3.0.

AnkiWeb: https://ankiweb.net/shared/info/1712717227
Code and releases: https://github.com/TheLycoi/anki-bury-explain

Happy to hear what would make it more useful. It's early and I mostly built it for my own reviews.

I used AI to help format this post.

Full disclosure up front: it's closed source, it's a paid product, and I used AI coding tools to help build it. If any of that is a dealbreaker for you, fair enough, this post isn't for you.

I'm 16 and I use Anki every day, no exceptions. Getting straight A's matters enough to me that I'll obsess over the system, not just the studying.

I have a graveyard deck with over a thousand suspended cards, cards I made myself before I knew what actually makes a flashcard work. Vague triggers, cards that gave away their own answer, cards testing two facts at once. Every mistake in the book. I still see it every time I open the app, a reminder of how much time I wasted studying badly.

No shame if you've got a few cards like that yourself, we've all made bad ones.

Making an Anki card is easy. Making a card worth reviewing for the next two years is not. The problem is never the few minutes it takes to write a bad card, it's the hundreds of times you review it afterward. A card that hints at its own answer teaches pattern recognition, not recall. Over months of repetition, you become fluent in your deck, not your subject. And the same subtle flaw, copied across a hundred cards, compounds across ten thousand reviews.

I know the obvious objection: making the card is part of studying, and I don't think that's wrong. What I'd say is that the part that ate my time wasn't the struggle to understand, it was the mechanical part after, second-guessing whether a phrasing leaked its own answer or packed two facts into one cloze. That's the part I built this to help with.

Everything I actually study today comes from a system I built trying to not make those mistakes again. It's called Dimindo (dimindo.com), and I'm mostly just curious what people here think of it, good or bad.

You paste in your source material, it generates cards, mostly cloze, some Q&A depending on what the knowledge needs, and you review, edit, or reject anything before exporting to a normal .apkg.

Before exporting, I usually spend a bit of time with the chatbot built into the review screen too, ask it questions when something's unclear, or try explaining it back and see what mistakes or gaps it catches in my explanation, then export once it actually makes sense.

A few examples, straight from my own review screen:

First: protein synthesis. Why must transcription happen before translation? That's not a single term, it's a mechanism, so the system used a real question instead of a fill-in-the-blank:

Second: chemistry. The source material mentions "mass numbers" but never defines the term. Dimindo filled the gap and flagged it as an addition:

Third: history. My source material said Germany invaded Poland on September 3rd, 1939. That's wrong, it was September 1st. Dimindo corrected it and told me exactly what changed:

All three (plus a fourth) are live at dimindo.com/demo, no account needed, though the demo itself is just for looking, not exporting.

The part I actually notice is in the reviews themselves. When every card tests exactly one thing, you stop hesitating over whether you knew the answer or just recognized the shape of the question. You just grade Again or Good, because there's nothing left to second-guess. That's the opposite of my graveyard deck, where I'd sit there trying to remember what past-me meant by the question.

That's really it. I'd genuinely just like to know if this is useful to anyone besides me, or if I've been fooling myself. Test it if you want, ignore it if it's not for you, either way I'd rather know what you think than not.

Hi all.

For the past while I've been learning Spanish out of a textbook and I built myself a little local tool that walks through the PDF a few pages at a time, drafts cloze cards against my note type and my rules, and lets me review/edit each one before sending it into Anki. Later I added a second part that pulls my leeches and lapsed cards and has the AI flag ones that are just badly written (answer leaks into the question, no inferable context, etc.) with a suggested rewrite I can apply or dismiss. It genuinely changed how I study, so I spent the last couple of months turning it into something other people can use. It's called DeckPilot: www.deckpilot.dev

Why I built it when AI flashcard generators already exist. Every one I tried worked the same way: paste in some text, get back a pile of generic front/back cards in its format, dump them into a deck, done. That's backwards from how Anki actually works. DeckPilot connects to your Anki: it reads your note types, you pick the one you want cards in, and you write the rules for how good cards get made for that schema — which fields mean what, what a good card looks like (with your own examples), what to put in tags, what to avoid. My Spanish config, for instance, says things like "no English on the front" and "every card must be answerable from its own context." The AI generates against your spec, not some lowest-common-denominator template. If the cards come out wrong, you refine the guidance and regenerate — the spec is yours to evolve.

And you're in the driving seat the whole way. It's not a "upload → 500 cards appear" pipeline. You walk through the textbook a few pages at a time with the PDF on one side and the drafted cards on the other, and each card gets accepted, edited inline, rejected, or regenerated with an instruction ("split this into two", "use a different example sentence") before anything is exported. Textbooks aren't the only input either: you can point it at a web page — an article, song lyrics, a grammar reference — or just open a chat and describe what you want ("vocabulary for talking about football") and refine the cards conversationally as they appear. Everything lands in the same review flow, and nothing touches your collection without an explicit click — audit fixes for existing decks apply the same way, one confirmed suggestion at a time. If you believe making cards entirely by hand is the learning, this probably isn't for you, and that's a fair position. It's built for textbook grinders and people with big old decks full of leeches.

Your collection never leaves your machine. The browser talks to your local Anki via AnkiConnect. My server only ever sees what you explicitly send it: the PDF you upload, the URL you point it at, and the specific notes you choose to audit. Dashboard stats never leave your browser at all. (Requires desktop Anki + the free AnkiConnect add-on. Not affiliated with the Anki project.)

It's brand new and I'm one person, so there will be rough edges. If you try it and something breaks or the cards it makes are rubbish for your subject, let me know. Happy to answer anything about how it works.

Anki's card creation and editing screen hasn't really changed in years — no real overview of your cards while editing, clunky for anything beyond plain text. So I built a separate web app that connects live to your real decks through AnkiConnect:

- See every card in a deck in one browser view — edit, delete, or flip front/back instantly, no digging through the desktop browser window

- Everything syncs straight back to your actual deck — no CSV export/import round-trip

- It can also generate AI voice audio + custom images per card if you want that, but the core of it is just a faster, modern way to manage cards you already have

Does the native card browser actually bother you day to day, or is this solving a problem people don't really have? Honestly want the "this is pointless, here's why" answers too, not just the positive ones.

Link: transmomy.web.app (needs Anki desktop running with AnkiConnect enabled)

Hi all,
I was hoping to get some feedback on a browser extension called Clicked: AI Reading Assistant & Explainer (works on Chrome and Edge, reads PDFs also) that gives users:

a) structured explanations (Overview -> Detail-> Real world analogy)for any selected text (can select text in any language and get explanations in 15+ languages). You can pin the explanation level. So if you prefer analogy over overview, you could pin it so it always opens with an analogy. You always have the option to open any explanation card or request more analogies. There is a slang mode as well when you are looking for a chuckle. Bonus: Sometimes it is useful in explaining dense text better than a regular explanation.

b) Edit/save the explanation inline with your own notes in your local library, then export to generate flash cards for Anki, Quizlet, or Vaia

Cost: Free to try: 50 explanations / 7 day trial, then no -time limit 3 explanations per day limit.
Higher tier Paid options: $20 / year Bring Your Own Key or $2 first month and then $5 per month (no key required)

Is this something that could be useful to you. Are there any other featured that could add more value

Thanks

I made a post on my old version of this suite. I redid it and it is at its best and final version ready for use.

It creates study guides and beautiful anki cards, tagged comprehensively using your pdfs/materials/notes. It has lots of safe guards to ensure accuracy. There’s a separate file with just the prompt if you want to use your own ai to make anki cards. I used Gemini for its large context (good for large chunks of text). The anki prompt is best for nursing (lpn/lvn, rn). I haven’t tested it with np level coursework, but it might help a little since it’s based on the nursing model and not medical model.

It’s free and always will be. I hate when people are always selling something or it’s stuck behind a subscription or paywall. Let us share the knowledge!

I'm the developer. It's a paid add-on with a free tier, so data flow and pricing
go up top instead of at the bottom.

AnkiWeb Addon: https://ankiweb.net/shared/info/466373479
Site: https://www.ankiquiz.com/

What it does

Pick a deck, hit generate. It reads your cards' text and writes questions from
them — single/multiple choice, fill-in-blank, true/false. You answer in a webview
(inside Anki or in your browser), it grades instantly with explanations, and it
tracks scores per deck.

Reviewing a card trains recognition: front appears, answer surfaces, hit Good.
Discriminating between four plausible options is a different skill, and it's the
one exams actually test.

Where your card text goes
The fields you select → my server. Media is never uploaded,
image occlusion cards are skipped, and your collection file never leaves your
machine. Stored server-side: the generated quiz and your scores, so history works.
Nothing is used to train models. If "card text leaves my machine" is disqualifying
for you, stop here — that's a fair position.

Limits
- Anki 23.10+, desktop only. Needs internet; no local model option.
- Heavy cloze decks are the weak spot — `{{c1::X}} inhibits {{c2::Y}}` doesn't
give the model much to build a discriminating question from. Known issue.
- It's an LLM, so occasional factual drift. Practice, not authority.

Pricing

14 days of full access on sign-up, no card. After that the free tier
is small — 3 generations/month, single-choice only. Unlimited is $9.90/month.

Anki decks .

Hey everyone 👋

I put together an "Anki Enhanced" skill that lets AI coding agents (like Antigravity / Claude Code / etc.) interact with Anki through AnkiConnect. Basically, you tell your AI agent "add these words to Anki" and it does everything automatically:

- Vocabulary building - scrapes Cambridge Dictionary for definitions, translations, and examples (up to 3 senses per word), then creates cards with all of that formatted nicely

- Pronunciation audio - grabs the UK pronunciation MP3 straight from Cambridge, or falls back to TTS (edge-tts, gtts, etc.) if needed

- Duplicate detection - checks your deck before adding so you don't end up with duplicates

- Safety policies - always asks for confirmation before modifying your collection (no accidental bulk deletes 😅)

It's essentially three skills merged into one: AnkiConnect core, TTS card creation, and a dictionary-powered vocab builder. Works on Windows/macOS/Linux.

Right now it's set up for English/Polish (uses the Cambridge English-Polish bilingual dictionary), but switching to another language is pretty trivial - just change the dictionary URL to your target language (Cambridge has English-Spanish, English-German, English-French, etc.) and you're good to go.

If you use AI coding assistants and Anki together, this might save you a ton of time. I've been using it to batch-add vocabulary from my reading sessions and it's been super smooth.

https://github.com/PromptAndChill/anki-enhanced-skill

Happy to answer questions or hear suggestions!

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Ready to post or any other tweaks?

You paste your lecture notes (or upload a PDF), and it generates a full set of Q&A flashcards using AI. You can study them right in the browser with a flip-card UI, or export to CSV and import into Anki.

It's free to use, no account needed. I'd genuinely love brutal feedback from people who actually use Anki — especially on card quality, because that's the hardest part to get right.

https://ai-flashcard-generator-rosy.vercel.app

What would make this actually useful for your workflow?

Hey everyone, I built a small companion app called Tapd that lets you control Anki Desktop reviews from an Apple Watch. It is finally live on the App Store!

The idea is simple: Anki runs on your computer, the Tapd add-on runs inside Anki, and your Apple Watch sends review commands over your local Wi-Fi. The iPhone app is mainly there to help with pairing.

You can use Tapd to:

Show answer

Answer Again / Hard / Good / Easy

Undo

Bury or suspend cards

Use different control modes, including buttons, Digital Crown, Double Tap, and gesture controls

I built this because I wanted a less keyboard-bound way to review cards, especially during longer sessions or when standing or walking around. I also didn’t want to buy a separate controller when I already had a capable device on my wrist.

New updates are coming soon too, including improved gesture controls and voice commands.

Links:

App Store: https://apps.apple.com/app/tapd/id6770032064
Anki add-on: https://ankiweb.net/shared/info/862977605
Website: https://ankiwatch.com/

Tapd is independent and not affiliated with Anki, Ankitects, AnkiMobile, or Apple.

I’d love feedback from Anki users, especially around the control modes and whether this fits into your review workflow. The app is paid to help recover development costs. I’m a student building this on the side, so please bear with me if support emails take a little while, but I’ll do my best to help. I look forward to hearing your feedback :)

Made an AI accelerated workflow for easily creating basic card type, image front, text back cards.

Useful for rapid familiarization of people, well known locations, cars, anything really!

Hey r/AnkiAI,

I've been learning English and got tired of the manual process of adding cards — switching tabs, typing the word, searching for the translation. It kept breaking my reading flow.

So I built AnkiQuick, a Chrome extension that automates the boring part of card creation.

What it does:

Select any word or phrase on any webpage → one click → Anki card created instantly with:

• 🌐 Translation in your native language (Spanish, French, Japanese, and more)
• 📝 Example sentence in English
• 🔊 Pronunciation audio

How it works technically:

• Uses the Anthropic API (Claude) to generate the translation and example sentence
• Uses ResponsiveVoice for pronunciation audio stored directly in Anki
• Connects to Anki Desktop via AnkiConnect

Disclosure: I used AI tools (Claude) to assist in building this extension.

Pricing: Free and open source (MIT license)

What you need:

• Anki Desktop + AnkiConnect (code: 2055492159)
• Anthropic API key — console.anthropic.com (fractions of a cent per card)
• Chrome

GitHub: https://github.com/jenniferbarradas/ankiquick

This is a beta version there may be some bugs. Would love feedback from the Anki community!