“Filtered Deck Backup” is a tool designed to help users effortlessly export, restore, and delete filtered deck settings in Anki. With this add-on, you can easily save the configurations of your filtered decks to a text file and restore them later, allowing for seamless backup, sharing, or recovery of your custom deck filters. Whether you’re reorganizing your study material, sharing decks with others, or cleaning up old filtered decks, this add-on simplifies managing your filtered decks.
How to Use the Add-on:
Exporting Filtered Decks:
Open Anki and go to the “Tools” menu. Select the “Filtered Deck Backup” submenu. Click on “Export filtered decks”.
Restoring Filtered Decks:
Open Anki and go to the “Tools” menu. Select the “Filtered Deck Backup” submenu. Click on “Restore filtered decks”.
Deleting All Filtered Decks:
Open Anki and go to the “Tools” menu. Select the “Filtered Deck Backup” submenu. Click on “Delete all filtered decks”.
Note: After performing actions like restoring or deleting filtered decks, it is recommended to restart Anki for the changes to be fully applied.
Changes 13.07.2025
Translated all interface messages to English Sorted deck names during export Added notice to restart Anki after restore Improved parsing of deck names with spaces Removed Russian error messages
Reviews (3)
👍 2026-02-21
Cool tool. When importing (“restoring”) filtered deck settings, it not only adds the filters to decks, but it also recreates subdecks. However, you still have to manually hit “Rebuild” from the options of each filtered deck for the filters to apply. Fortunately, there’s another add-on to automate that: https://ankiweb.net/shared/info/1997713323
👍 2025-05-03
It fails when decks have spaces in names.
But besides that, it creates decks based on backup file. You need to restart Anki to see the new decks. Errors are in Russian and you need to edit backup file if you want to export only a few decks.
👍 2024-10-18
Nice. The messages are in Russian though, and the decks are not sorted by name. And I don’t want to delete filtered decks, but I would like to refresh all decks in a subtree.
