For the sake of focus, I mean to ask people who — if push came to shove — could read a novel, play a video game, or watch a serialized story (anime, drama, or even non-srandalone film series) and still maintain 95+% comprehension rates without a dictionary
While "just immerse, bro"-ing is probably the best thing to do at my level, I personally still like to be mindful about what I don't currently know, and the other things I do is in service of that mindset.
What I tend to do is type encountered words into a text document or notes app, and then look up the words after my reading/watching/gaming session is done. After the lookups, I write the typed list of words down onto a physical notebook separated by source material types. It's mostly just because I enjoy handwriting, but it does tend to give me a stronger connection to encountered words, in that seeing them again will make me think "I've already spent time and effort paying attention to this word" and not just "I straight up don't know what this word means, and that's all there is to it". As for separate notebooks for anime, books, games, movies, etc., that's mostly for my own satisfaction, seeing different notebooks get filled up as a sign that I'm keeping things varied rather than fixating on one type of media.
Doing all of these steps takes less time and energy than manually creating Anki cards, and it's actually something that has helped me learn more words than just the ones that made it to Anki. So rather than adding to my routine (now that I've finally reached 10,000 manually created cards just to be able to say I've achieved my 10k milestone), I'm literally just taking away mining. Typing and handwriting word lists is not as efficient as SRS, to be sure, but I think I'll be fine since I've already established for myself that I can actually do substantial amounts of reading and listening input daily.
by ignoremesenpie