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Starting to get back into the groove. Back to finishing VNs for once and going to start a new Anki mined words deck. I'm going to abandon my old decks as I haven't used them in forever so the algorithms are probably way off.

One of them was the Core vocab deck and I've long mastered all that vocab. The other was an old mined words deck that was way bloated with unnecessary stuff.

I added a bunch of words that I doubt I really need to know and that I barely have a grasp of in English anyway (a bunch of scientific terms like chemical compounds etc that basically had no chance of sticking). I think there was a science infodump in some VN and I just added all the words from it to Anki without thinking.

My new deck is only going to contain stuff that I think I can remember and that seems like it'll be useful/repeated often.

Overall if someone goes the mining/Anki route (adding words that pop up in stuff you read to a deck), my advice would be to not add in everything blindly because your deck will end up bloated with difficult to remember stuff. I would advise asking yourself if the word is actually something you'd predict seeing more than a handful of times ever. I think with a more focused deck, practice will be more efficient.

Of course it depends on your goals with Japanese as well. If you're going for like a science degree at a Japanese university obviously priorities will change.