Pros and cons of a single supermemo collection

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There is no good and right about having one single collection or several for SuperMemo. You may decide when it is best to start a new collection, merge collections, or transfer branches between different collections according to many factors and current needs.

Interleaving

Video/audio repetitions break the flow

Stats

Averages may be not representative

Analytics

Duplicates

Backup

Using the built-in backup solution is increasingly inefficient as collection count grows. You would need to backup each collection one by one. It makes close to no difference if you are using a git solution for backup, as I do strongly recommend to do.

Time investment

Registries

Searches

Collection repairs

Collection parameters

Same collection parameters for different difficulties

Final Drill

Having multiple collections make the selective final drill very accesible, as you can turn on/off the finall drill for each collection. For instance I could turn it on for language learning collections. Having a single collection makes the finall drill a everything or nothing choice. There is a word-around by creating subset reviews from the drill queue (video).

Priorities

Requires more precision for prioritization