I’m sure this has been discussed before, but since I can’t seem to find the previous thread: I don’t think an onboarding deck is a good idea.
- Initial learning benefits from verbose prose, supporting diagrams and so on. Subsequent review is best done with terse cards that can be reviewed quickly. Trying to shoehorn the manual into a deck is going to result in flashcards that don’t follow best practice.
- What a user considers worthy of review varies from user to user, and a deck is harder to skim through / focus on the topics the user is interested in.
- Maintenance of an onboarding deck would be more difficult than the manual, both in terms of making changes, and getting those changes out to users who had used the deck previously.