Manual vs mapped: which do I pick?

Pick manual when…

• Data is created here and nowhere else.
• There are fewer than ~20 rows, edited by a human.
• The data will not arrive from a system.
• You need to get something on screen in the next five minutes and have no data source.

Examples: show titles, standing instructions, a four-row "next up" list that someone curates.

Pick mapped when…

• Data lives in a spreadsheet, a database, or an API.
• The data refreshes more often than you are willing to edit it by hand.
• The same source feeds several different datasets (filtered differently).

Examples: roster imported from a federation, live scores from a plugin, weather from SMHI.

You can mix

Nothing stops you having both a mapped leaderboard and a manual "ad break" dataset in the same project. Pick the right tool per dataset.