Hi Ernie,
Have a suggestion. How about making it possible to create a "mirror" deck that has the same content but with the slide order reversed of the original deck? The mirror deck would have its own attributes and its stats would be independent. Finally new cards created in either deck would get copied to the other deck automatically.
Here's my reasoning. I'm a Japanese interpreter and occasionally have to learn reams of vocab for a job. Having practiced for quite a few years now, I realise that the best preparation comes from drilling myself in both language directions. While I may be fine going from Japanese to English for a certain word pair, I may be really slow / unable going from English to Japanese for the same word pair. When you're routinely going from Japanese to English and vice versa, you need to be able to know you could do both smoothly.
What I want to be able to do in Flashcards Deluxe is create just one deck, let's say, Japanese in Side 1, English in Side 2. I'd then like to be able to simply create another "mirror deck" from this first one, with its own attributes. The default for the mirror deck would be to swap the slide order (i.e. English in Side 1 and Japanese in Side 2) and to reset the stats but otherwise stay the same content-wise. Finally, when I come across a new word to add to these two decks, I want to be able to add it to just one of them, but for it to be copied automatically to the "mirror" deck.
This would allow me to drill each deck individually and have the stats stored for each deck independently. To get the same functionality at the moment, I need to manually create two versions of each deck I want to learn in both language directions which is a bit of a pain.
I know it's possible at the moment to copy decks and to vary which slide is shown first but the stats get carried across and so "contaminate" reps done in the other direction. Ideally what I'm looking for is something quick where I can press a button - "create mirror deck" - and create a mirror deck with it's own attributes and its own stats, and one that automatically updates the content of both decks when just one is updated.
Hope this makes sense and that you'll give the idea some consideration.
Cheers,
Dougal