buy flash cards, make your own or use digital ones (PDA, PC) ?

[ablaze]

What has worked best for you?

I've read user reviews about the commercial flash cards by Tuttle ("Chinese in a Flash", 4 sets with 448 characters each, amounting to 1792 character flash cards for approx. $70) and they seem to be quite good. Then again, I could save the money and buy a PDA/PPC, which is probably the better investment in the long run.

My only fear is that the various free digital flash card sets could be inferior quality-wise (radicals/bùshǒu for each character? stroke order? usage/word/sentence examples?)

I'd like to hear about your experience.

[889]

For less than half the cost of the Tuttle cards you can get the 1375-card set 初级汉语习字卡片 "Flash Cards for Elementary Chinese" published on the Mainland.

I think they're more than adequate.

[imcgraw]

Or you could build your own image-based flashcards and load them up into a speech-recognition based card game... for free here.

[gato]

Palm with PlecoDict is the better choice.

http://pleco.com/pdpreview.html