I added the lol because I know there's no clear answer to this, other than 'make less cards'. But still, I wonder how and where you personally draw the line, assuming that you find Anki as helpful as I do. For example, I use wanikani. I see a new kanji, I make a card for it in Anki, too. Then I take a look at the 2-3 collocations wanikani provides for each new kanji, and these are excellent and really useful, too – and they dont ever repeat within wanikani SRS. So I make cards for them, along with a full example sentence using the kanji. I listen to a podcast, I hear and look up new words… I make cards for them. And as they are individual words I make both production and recognition cards, so thats 2 cards. Etc. I find all of this to be extremely helpful, it works for me and my vocab, reading etc has really done well as a result… but the # of cards is obviously unsustainable and I'm creating more new cards than I can reasonably check. So I'll have to moderate it more. Lol. I get that… my specific question is, if you also make your own cards by mining lots of different sources… where do you draw the line, and why? Only production cards? Only recognition? If you use Wanikani, no sentences, collocations? If you listen to a podcast, hear a new word, look it up… how do you decide whether or not to make a card? Etc. Basically I know Anki works very well for me so it's hard to resist. How do you personally keep the card count down? 😀
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