안키 기초강의 3. 카드 덱과 덱 정렬

Anki’s “deck options” let different study groups run with different settings, which is why decks are separated instead of managing everything in one place. When multiple subjects need different daily review volumes—like one topic at 20 cards per day and another at 50—Anki can’t split those limits inside a single deck. Creating separate decks makes it possible to apply distinct options per subject, and it also lets learners review only the relevant deck when studying.

From the deck list, the gear-shaped settings button opens deck-specific controls, including renaming, option management, and exporting a deck as a file for sharing, moving, or backing up. The practical workflow starts with creating decks using “deck 만들기” (deck creation). For example, “재무회계” (financial accounting), “세무회계” (tax accounting), and “원가 관리 회계” (cost/accounting management) can be created as separate decks. To organize them further, related decks can be grouped under a higher-level deck (a “parent deck”), such as placing “재무회계” and “원가 관리 회계” under “회계학 일부” (accounting-related portion) as subdecks.

Anki supports two ways to create subdecks. The first is drag-and-drop: moving a deck into the parent deck creates a subdeck automatically. The second is manual naming using a double-colon syntax (parent::child). This second method matters because mobile Anki doesn’t support the same drag-and-drop behavior, so typing the parent prefix with “::” achieves the same hierarchy.

Once decks are organized, studying becomes more flexible: pressing a specific deck name allows targeted review, while selecting the parent deck enables reviewing all subdecks together. The transcript also highlights a common question—deck ordering. Anki sorts decks by alphabet, and numbers follow lexicographic order (0–9 in sequence). To change ordering, users must adjust the alphabetic/number prefix.

A key warning appears with numbers like 11. If “회계학 일부” is assigned “11” after “1” and “2,” computers may place it incorrectly because “1” is the first digit, effectively treating “11” as “1” followed by another “1” rather than as a distinct two-digit position. The safe rule is to keep ordering prefixes consistent—either sequentially from 1 onward or in a way that matches the sorting logic. For Korean deck names, ordering follows the language’s collation rules (e.g., based on consonant/vowel order such as ㄴ before ㄷ), which can affect where a deck appears relative to the default deck list.