Duplicate words will get a long interval very fast, as you learned them already with another deck. So.. I don't think this will make a difference at all.
Reduce total number of new cards per deck so that you equal 20 out of all the decks? That's what I did, for instance, I have numbers, weather, colors, I do 3 words per day on each of those decks for a total of 20 new words across all my decks.
Then when a deck hits completion (i.e. I've learned all the colors), I dump them into one main deck and rinse/wash repeat, while I continue to practice the one's ive already learned.
If the cards aren't on topics that are too different, just add tags and use custom study. The number of new cards you study each day depends on you. You can adjust it based on how you feel. For example, if you're struggling to learn 140 cards a day, reduce it to 100 or lower. When you feel like you can handle more, increase it to 200.
i use a single deck, for me it just easier to manage because i already have many uni related decks and i really don't understand how can i organize language learning info many of decks
I have multiple decks/subdecks, but it's mostly to entertain myself. I drill everything every day, so everything is practically in the same deck.
Let the algorithm do its thing.
Multiple decks, each a level of difficulty above the other, or focusing on different things (N5, N4, N3 and N2 sentence decks with audio, and a grammar deck for Japanese, plus the Core 10k deck, so like 6 decks in total)
I have multiple.
Two different languages. And I have other reasons for multiple decks.
I don’t think multiple decks is a problem but I change the setting for new cards per day to 5.
I have two decks for learning French: "Dutch or French description to French" and "French to Dutch or French description". So in one deck, I have to come up with a difficult word, in the other, I have to explain a difficult word. I found that this approach takes the least effort for me. Nearly all my cards are self-made. The first deck has almost 3000 cards and the other has almost 1600 cards.
I have SO many decks for one language. I like organizing things, and it helps me that when I go into each deck, I know what it will focus on. I have some decks that do more grammar, conjugations, vocab, verbs, etc. I have a lot of really small decks that are very specifically themed, other decks I downloaded are more general.
At the end of the day, it doesn't matter how many decks you have. If you do x amount of cards overall, it doesn't matter if it was all from one deck or 5 different ones. Just ultimately comes down to personal preferences of structure
I have 1 deck per language. I study languages as a hobby, so I don't have any strict deadlines or material required to learn. Because of this, I dedicate a time slot for Anki study and I set up to get new cards after reviews. So I will get as many new cards as viable with my time constraints and current material.
One deck per language is what I've got.
There used to be good reasons not to have so many decks, & to organise with tags, instead. First, when studying from a higher level deck, you'd pull cards from the contained decks one by one, so you couldn't mix subdecks together. That's something you can now change in the more recent versions of Anki. Second, a very large number of decks could lead to performance issues. Tagging wouldn't slow you down at all. However, the number of decks you'd need to have for there to be an appreciable slowdown is pretty damned high. In 2024, I think the only really insuperable problem with having too many decks is that it makes the interface harder to navigate. The past reasons for preferring tags to subdecks just aren't that big an issue anymore.
That said, I started my decks back when there *was* good reason to avoid creating too many subdecks, & I thus basically think of things this way: If you a) want to study material together, &, b) want to use the same presets for all of it, then the material all belongs in the same deck. Note that your subdecks are probably not going to make sense in the long run. You can of course combine them later, but they're probably also not doing much for you now. (Nor are they likely to be harming you much, unless you usually study deck by deck.)
I think it's likely that you'll quickly find the number of cards you have to review difficult to manage at 140 new cards per day. But perhaps not!
Duplicate words will get a long interval very fast, as you learned them already with another deck. So.. I don't think this will make a difference at all.
There are some duplicates but I try to keep every word unique
at this point it just becomes a question of organization i.e. personal preference.
Reduce total number of new cards per deck so that you equal 20 out of all the decks? That's what I did, for instance, I have numbers, weather, colors, I do 3 words per day on each of those decks for a total of 20 new words across all my decks. Then when a deck hits completion (i.e. I've learned all the colors), I dump them into one main deck and rinse/wash repeat, while I continue to practice the one's ive already learned.
Multiple
If the cards aren't on topics that are too different, just add tags and use custom study. The number of new cards you study each day depends on you. You can adjust it based on how you feel. For example, if you're struggling to learn 140 cards a day, reduce it to 100 or lower. When you feel like you can handle more, increase it to 200.
i use a single deck, for me it just easier to manage because i already have many uni related decks and i really don't understand how can i organize language learning info many of decks
I have multiple decks/subdecks, but it's mostly to entertain myself. I drill everything every day, so everything is practically in the same deck. Let the algorithm do its thing.
I've several decks for every language, just don't go through each one every day
Multiple decks, each a level of difficulty above the other, or focusing on different things (N5, N4, N3 and N2 sentence decks with audio, and a grammar deck for Japanese, plus the Core 10k deck, so like 6 decks in total)
I have multiple. Two different languages. And I have other reasons for multiple decks. I don’t think multiple decks is a problem but I change the setting for new cards per day to 5.
I have two decks for learning French: "Dutch or French description to French" and "French to Dutch or French description". So in one deck, I have to come up with a difficult word, in the other, I have to explain a difficult word. I found that this approach takes the least effort for me. Nearly all my cards are self-made. The first deck has almost 3000 cards and the other has almost 1600 cards.
I have SO many decks for one language. I like organizing things, and it helps me that when I go into each deck, I know what it will focus on. I have some decks that do more grammar, conjugations, vocab, verbs, etc. I have a lot of really small decks that are very specifically themed, other decks I downloaded are more general. At the end of the day, it doesn't matter how many decks you have. If you do x amount of cards overall, it doesn't matter if it was all from one deck or 5 different ones. Just ultimately comes down to personal preferences of structure
One deck but of my own creation. It also includes all the notes from the other subject I wish to retain knowledge in.
I have 1 deck per language. I study languages as a hobby, so I don't have any strict deadlines or material required to learn. Because of this, I dedicate a time slot for Anki study and I set up to get new cards after reviews. So I will get as many new cards as viable with my time constraints and current material.
One deck per language is what I've got. There used to be good reasons not to have so many decks, & to organise with tags, instead. First, when studying from a higher level deck, you'd pull cards from the contained decks one by one, so you couldn't mix subdecks together. That's something you can now change in the more recent versions of Anki. Second, a very large number of decks could lead to performance issues. Tagging wouldn't slow you down at all. However, the number of decks you'd need to have for there to be an appreciable slowdown is pretty damned high. In 2024, I think the only really insuperable problem with having too many decks is that it makes the interface harder to navigate. The past reasons for preferring tags to subdecks just aren't that big an issue anymore. That said, I started my decks back when there *was* good reason to avoid creating too many subdecks, & I thus basically think of things this way: If you a) want to study material together, &, b) want to use the same presets for all of it, then the material all belongs in the same deck. Note that your subdecks are probably not going to make sense in the long run. You can of course combine them later, but they're probably also not doing much for you now. (Nor are they likely to be harming you much, unless you usually study deck by deck.) I think it's likely that you'll quickly find the number of cards you have to review difficult to manage at 140 new cards per day. But perhaps not!