Koichi and CJ thanks for your responses.

My first assumption was that the problem was that I’m not very familiar with the inner workings of Anki as I find the deck menu to be one of the few tricky things about Anki.

I think the tags feature sounds great. I’m looking forward to it.

So far, I’m having pretty good luck with the Kanji program. Just the other day I saw 川下[other kanji][other kanji], and I said, “Well shit, I know the readings for half that sign.” I thought for sure that one was in danger of going in the Anki bin of exiled cards but now I can’t forget it.