Filtered Deck From Tag — Enhanced Edition A modernized fork of Filtered Deck From Tag (AnkiWeb 2058067048) Originally created by Sachin Govind.
Enhanced and updated for current Anki versions (2.1.65 – 25.xx). It’s designed for people who study by tag instead of by deck — especially useful for large decks like AnKing or other tagged hierarchies.
🪄 Usage
Open the Browser in Anki.
In the left Tags sidebar, either:
Right-click any tag → choose “Create Filtered Deck” (or one of your custom variants), or Alt + Left-click a tag to instantly create a filtered deck with the default settings and name (no dialog).
When using the right-click option, you can edit the suggested deck name.
A filtered (dynamic) deck is created from that tag with your configured:
card count sort / “select by” order card states (New, Learn, Due), via a configurable global search suffix ✨ New Features
📝 Custom Deck Name Prompt When creating a filtered deck via right-click, you can type any custom deck name before creation.
🔠 Smart, Title-Case Deck Names (with numbers) Tags like medicine_cardiology become Medicine Cardiology automatically. Numeric parts are preserved, so 3_brain_tumors becomes 3 Brain Tumors, not just Brain Tumors. All-caps acronyms (e.g. AK) stay in caps.
🏷️ Parent Tag Prefix in CAPS (optional) For hierarchical tags like Neurosurgery::3_brain_tumors, the default filtered deck name can be: NEUROSURGERY – 3 Brain Tumors This can be turned on/off in the add-on config.
⚡ Quick Alt-Click Creation (optional) Hold Alt and left-click on a tag in the browser sidebar to instantly create a filtered deck from that tag:
Uses the same naming rules (including CAPS parent + “ – ” child if enabled). Skips the name prompt for faster workflow. Can be disabled in the config if you don’t want this behavior.
🔎 Global Search Suffix for Card States (new) You can add a global suffix to every search, e.g. “(is:due OR is:new)” so that newly-created filtered decks automatically include only due + new cards by default. This suffix is applied after the tag (and any per-menu supplemental search text).
🧠 FSRS / Modern Orders Support Works with all current Select by modes, including Ascending Retrievability and Descending Retrievability.
🛡️ Backwards Compatible Graceful fallback to Order Due if an unsupported order is selected.
⚙️ Configuration
Access configuration via: Tools → Add-ons → Filtered Deck From Tag — Enhanced Edition → Config
Configuration fields:
supplementalSearchTexts A list of extra search strings. Each one adds another menu option when right-clicking a tag.
shortNames A list of labels for those options (same length as supplementalSearchTexts). Each label corresponds to an entry in supplementalSearchTexts.
numCards The number of cards to include in the filtered deck (max allowed by Anki is 9999). Example: 300 for a daily study subset.
unsuspendAutomatically Whether to automatically unsuspend cards that match the filter (true by default). Set to false to leave suspension status unchanged.
defaultOrder Controls the card order when building the deck (Anki “select by” order): 0 – Oldest seen first 1 – Random 2 – Increasing intervals 3 – Decreasing intervals 4 – Most lapses 5 – Order added 6 – Order due 7 – Latest added first 8 – Ascending retrievability (FSRS) 9 – Descending retrievability (FSRS, default)
To understand what options to choose, see the discussion by Expertium and Dae: https://forums.ankiweb.net/t/improving-sort-orders/50081
prependMainParentTagCaps (new) If true, the main parent tag (first component in the hierarchy) is prepended in ALL CAPS, separated by ” - ”. Example: Neurosurgery::3_brain_tumors → NEUROSURGERY – 3 Brain Tumors. If false, only the leaf tag is used (e.g. 3 Brain Tumors).
quickCreateAltClick (new) If true, Alt + Left-click on a tag in the browser sidebar will instantly create a filtered deck using the default settings and name (no confirmation dialog). If false, Alt-click does nothing and only the right-click menu is available.
globalSearchSuffix (new) A string that is appended to every generated search, after the tag (and any supplementalSearchTexts). Example:
“(is:due OR is:new)” → only due and new cards are included by default. "" (empty string) → no extra state filter; all matching cards are eligible. ⚙️ Default Configuration { “numCards”: 9999, “shortNames”: [], “supplementalSearchTexts”: [], “unsuspendAutomatically”: true, “defaultOrder”: “9”, “prependMainParentTagCaps”: true, “quickCreateAltClick”: true, “globalSearchSuffix”: "" }
Example Configuration { “numCards”: 300, “shortNames”: [ “High Yield Due”, “High Yield Due and New”, “Due and New” ], “supplementalSearchTexts”: [ “tag:#AK_Step1_v11::^Other::^HighYield::1-HighYield is:due”, “tag:#AK_Step1_v11::^Other::^HighYield::1-HighYield (is:due OR is:new)”, “(is:due OR is:new)” ], “unsuspendAutomatically”: true, “defaultOrder”: “9”, “prependMainParentTagCaps”: true, “quickCreateAltClick”: true, “globalSearchSuffix”: “(is:due OR is:new)” }
In this example, every filtered deck created by the add-on will end up with searches like:
tag:neurosurgery::3_brain_tumors (is:due OR is:new)
unless overridden by manual edits.
Notes This add-on creates the filtered deck. It does not regularly rebuild that filtered deck. For automatic rebuilding, use one of the “rebuild all filtered decks” add-ons. Click “Contact Author” on AnkiWeb to view the GitHub page and source code. Bug reports and feature requests should be added to the Issues page in the GitHub repository.
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Reviews (2)
👍 2026-01-27
Anki crashes immediately when installing this addon
👍 2025-10-29
Works as intended as of the first 30mins post installation
