Hello, 
The overwhelming answer here is going to be the AnKing Step Deck. A few details:
- Zanki is a much older deck, that has largely not been updated in years. It was long ago folded into and incorporated within the Anking deck. Thus, having Zanki would be heavily redundant (and outdated).
- Pepper is largely similar. Itās quite an old deck at this point (I think 8+ years old).
The AnKing Step Deck is going to be hands-down the most common, most used, and by far the most updated Step deck (and the only one that is actively maintained). You can find more information about some of the ongoing updates within that deck here: š AnKing Step Deck Update #14ā¦
AnKing. Easy answer
This will vary widely amongst individuals. Not all schools have the same curricula, nor the same amount of emphasis on in-house materials, so itās hard to give a one-size-fits all answer here.
But, a very broad overview sense would be that many (most?) students use the AnKing deck and then supplement with in-house decks and/or self-made cards to cover any gaps necessary for school-specific material or just stuff that you need to focus on for personal gaps or weaknesses. This is a pretty commonplace workflow.
Thus, you might have something like the following:
- AnKing deck for Step-related stuff.
- An in-house deck (if one exists for your school) for school-related stuff.
- Self-made cards to emphasize important details or personal weaknesses.
You can edit just about anything in an AnKing card. In order to preserve those edits youāll want to āprotectā them. This can be done in two ways:
You can protect a given field for all notes in your collection: Managing Protected Fields
You can protect a given field for one specific note in your collection: Protect Field for Individual Note
Hopefully that gives at least a cursory answer to some of your questions though if Iāve missed anything, or if you have additional questions, feel free to fire them off and Iāll do my best to be of help.