# Keeping tags exclusive to certain decks?

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**Created:** [November 16, 2022, 12:16am UTC](https://forums.ankiweb.net/t/keeping-tags-exclusive-to-certain-decks/24696 "2022-11-16T00:16:49Z")\
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**Author:** ![bridgioto](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/forums.ankiweb.net/bridgioto/32/11735_2.png) [@bridgioto](https://forums.ankiweb.net/u/bridgioto)\
**Post date:** [November 16, 2022, 12:16am UTC](https://forums.ankiweb.net/t/keeping-tags-exclusive-to-certain-decks/24696/1 "2022-11-16T00:16:49Z")

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I’ve been using Anki for over a year for Spanish flashcards, and I have a pretty extensive organizational system just for that language.

I’ve just started learning Korean and am creating a new deck, but an issue I’m running into is that the tags for all decks are mixed in together. So for example, I already have a tag for “weather” that I use for all my Spanish weather-related vocab. If I want to segregate my Korean vocab the same way, using a “weather” tag for those words, it dumps the Korean deck words in with the Spanish.

What I’m wondering is if there is a way to have tags associated only with certain decks - or is the only solution to have a complete secondary tag set that is labeled with an indicator for the different language?

Thanks in advance for any help!

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**Author:** ![jcznk](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/forums.ankiweb.net/jcznk/32/15215_2.png) [@jcznk](https://forums.ankiweb.net/u/jcznk)\
**Post date:** [November 16, 2022, 1:39am UTC](https://forums.ankiweb.net/t/keeping-tags-exclusive-to-certain-decks/24696/2 "2022-11-16T01:39:20Z")

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I think your best options are:

- to use nested tags: e.g. `Spanish::Weather`, `Korean::Weather`  
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- to just use simple tags like `Spanish`, `Korean`, `Weather`, `Grammar` etc. and then, upon surfing the Browser and/or creating filtered decks, use multiple search terms at once: e.g. `"tag:Spanish tag:Weather"` will only show spanish weather-related cards

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**Author:** ![bridgioto](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/forums.ankiweb.net/bridgioto/32/11735_2.png) [@bridgioto](https://forums.ankiweb.net/u/bridgioto)\
**Post date:** [November 16, 2022, 5:21pm UTC](https://forums.ankiweb.net/t/keeping-tags-exclusive-to-certain-decks/24696/3 "2022-11-16T17:21:29Z")

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I didn’t know nested tags were a thing - I’ll look into that option. Thanks so much!

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/uploads/anki2/original/1X/8f1279ababc5879d54e4838989f606cfe55af8c7.jpeg) [@system](https://forums.ankiweb.net/u/system)\
**Post date:** [December 16, 2022, 5:22pm UTC](https://forums.ankiweb.net/t/keeping-tags-exclusive-to-certain-decks/24696/4 "2022-12-16T17:22:28Z")

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