Filtered Deck From Tag - Enhanced Edition

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 Anki versions 2.1.49 – 25.09.5+ (Qt 5 and Qt 6). It’s designed for people who study by tag instead of by deck — especially useful for large decks like AnKing or other tagged hierarchies.

Updated 2026-09-22

• Fixed missing middle tag levels in filtered deck names. With prependMainParentTagCaps enabled, every ancestor is included in hierarchy order and capitalized.
• The final tag keeps the existing readable title formatting, including numbers and uppercase acronyms.
• Works with both right-click creation and Alt+Click. Existing filtered decks are not renamed.

Example: rheumatology::middle_tag::01_Classification_of_Rheumatic_Diseases becomes RHEUMATOLOGY - MIDDLE TAG - 01 Classification Of Rheumatic Diseases.

Restart Anki after updating.

🪄 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.

• 🏷️ All Parent Tag Levels in CAPS (optional) For hierarchical tags like Medicine::Neurosurgery::3_brain_tumors, the default filtered deck name can be: MEDICINE - 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 every parent level in CAPS, separated by " - ", 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, all parent tag levels (every component before the final tag) are prepended in hierarchy order in ALL CAPS, separated by " - ". Example: Medicine::Neurosurgery::3_brain_tumors → MEDICINE - 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.