Core decks vs extensive reading

(2016-06-08, 1:41 pm)RawrPk Wrote: If you want to make visual Anki cards, you can take a screenshot and just do a form of clozed delete by blocking out the word you want to learn.

Hope this helps.

This is a really good form of production card but I don't think it would work well with visual novels.  The images are mostly static so you'll have a lot of images that look mostly or even exactly the same.  These images will get associated in your brain and you'll associate all of the words that use them, it will turn into a hindrance instead.  This method works well for anything with unique images though.

As to the original topic.  I think that if you want to save time then the best thing is to stick with the core deck a bit longer, at least until like 6k.  Not every word is something you'll run into all the time but most are so it's still a good use of time.  Keep adding to your other deck when you can manage it.