Is AJATT(ish) right for me/have I understood it?

Hi there,

I took the N5 for the first time this summer having started studying about a year ago (fingers crossed for a passing mark!).

I’m a teacher and dog owner and gym goer so balancing that alongside studying Japanese meant that it took me about a year to study for N5, though this was in part because I was being perhaps too thorough with Genki 1 TokiniAndy (fab resource!) and too light on my Anki deck.

Since taking the N5, I’ve taken a bit of a break from studying new Japanese. I’ve been keeping up my Anki reviews and recently started the Bunpro Genki 1 so that I can also review grammar. I know that I’ve come a long way from where I was a year ago but I also feel that very little of what I have studied has been retained and I don’t use it very often which I am aware is about studying habits. I want to really consolidate what I have learned so far and then move forward with a stronger approach to Japanese which isn’t going to be expensive in terms of active study time or money which I want to improve which leads me to AJATT…

I’ve tried to read it up on it but websites that are ‘guides’ cross-link their pages so much that I’m actually struggling to make sense of how to approach it. I understand the ethos around it and the scepticism so I’m approaching it with a critical eye and not thinking that it would magically make me fluent but

1. I wondered if anybody had experience/based on where I’m at, whether some form of AJATT sounds like a good plan?

2. I also was hoping whether somebody could let me know if I’ve got the general early timeline of it right below:

SRS of top 1000 words initially
SRS of kanji
Passive immersion and active immersion from the get go (accepting that there will be a lot I will miss but trying to listen out words, getting the idea of what is happening on screen (watching stuff at my level but also other stuff as well for the exposure/personal interest)
After top 1000 words, sentence mining (and the next chunk of vocab in an Anki deck)

1. The info I have seen about AJATT also talks about studying grammar from a textbook or similar but I’m unsure how that sits alongside immersion? I’m assuming practising using what I read about but is there anything else?

Lots of questions there and I really appreciate any answers/guidance/tips.

お願いします！