# Auto Advance \> Question Action \> Bury Card?

**URL:** <https://forums.ankiweb.net/t/auto-advance-question-action-bury-card/61338>\
**Category:** Suggestions\
**Created:** [May 21, 2025, 5:53am UTC](https://forums.ankiweb.net/t/auto-advance-question-action-bury-card/61338 "2025-05-21T05:53:09Z")\
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**Author:** ![doubleworker](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/forums.ankiweb.net/doubleworker/32/14967_2.png) [@doubleworker](https://forums.ankiweb.net/u/doubleworker)\
**Post date:** [May 21, 2025, 5:53am UTC](https://forums.ankiweb.net/t/auto-advance-question-action-bury-card/61338/1 "2025-05-21T05:53:10Z")

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I’ve really been struggling with learning Chinese, and I’ve been trying to find ways to make it easier for myself. A common test-taking strategy is to skip hard questions and come back to them when you’re done, and I’ve been wondering if a similar strategy could apply to Anki. Specifically, what if you could have Anki automatically bury a card if you take too long to answer it?

I looked around for an auto-skip/bury add-on (couldn’t find one, but I did find [this interesting post](https://forums.ankiweb.net/t/feature-request-native-skip-function-for-reviews/52968) about the benefits of skip/bury functionality), but then I remembered the auto advance feature. But unfortunately, burying a card is only available as an answer action, not a question action—maybe it could work for both?

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> (Of course you can ask: Why not just use the notification feature and bury it yourself? The answer is that even with a notification, I often forget to bury the card and just keep staring at it… and then I end up focusing on remembering to bury the card, rather than trying to remember the actual answer to the card.)
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> (And you may also ask: Won’t you just end up burying a ton of stuff if you automate the burying process? To which I’d say that the time limit should be high enough to avoid that—and hopefully I would be encouraged to answer more quickly by the threat of imminent burial. Then when I’m done, I can just run the second session without auto advance, and take my time.)

Anyway, learning Chinese is making me lose my mind.

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**Author:** ![2mcm2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/2/ea5d25/32.png) [@2mcm2](https://forums.ankiweb.net/u/2mcm2)\
**Post date:** [May 21, 2025, 8:42am UTC](https://forums.ankiweb.net/t/auto-advance-question-action-bury-card/61338/2 "2025-05-21T08:42:11Z")

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I’ve been missing this as well! Adding a `Question action: Bury Card` option to Auto Advance would be awesome exactly for the reasons you stated.

It would make reviews a lot quicker for me, getting through the easy ones at a steady pace and then dealing with the buried difficult ones at the end of the session. It would also give you a good sense of how many cards you actually manage to answer in the target time frame.

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**Author:** ![dae](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/forums.ankiweb.net/dae/32/65_2.png) [@dae](https://forums.ankiweb.net/u/dae)\
**Post date:** [June 2, 2025, 9:53am UTC](https://forums.ankiweb.net/t/auto-advance-question-action-bury-card/61338/3 "2025-06-02T09:53:58Z")

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If someone wishes to implement this, I’d be happy to merge it in.