by Ernie » Mon Nov 08, 2010 7:46 am
I don't think there is a clear winner; it's probably more just up to personal preference. My preference is larger / fewer decks for ease of maintenance - backup/restores are easier with few decks. In the future, I'll have better backup/restore capability so this won't be as much as an issue. Use can use combination decks with either approach. If you have lots of decks, use a combination deck to study them all together as a single unit. If you use larger decks, in the upcoming version (hopefully any day now), you can use a combination deck to represent just a single category in a larger deck (e.g. Combo deck called "Ch 1", and another called "Ch 2", etc, all pointing to a larger master deck). Some people might find adding new material to a brand new deck nice since they don't have to touch the older decks (an argument for more smaller decks). I update a single large deck and transfer the whole thing at once for my updates. I would recommend creating larger/fewer decks, unless you find the other way makes more sense to you. I don't think there is a wrong answer.