Core decks vs extensive reading

(2016-06-09, 8:51 pm)CureDolly Wrote: This is all based around the facts that a) my current Anki method is very audio-centric and b) since I do regard anki as primarily a backup I want reviews to be brief.

I wouldn't worry too much about this part.  If your cards are formatted well then it should always keep reviews relatively brief.  It only takes me 20-30 minutes to do my reviews and my cards have the full sentence, images, blah blah.   My manual workflow to make the cards is slower than most people's probably though, takes me a few hours spread out through the week.

So even if you use Anki more as a primary tool you can still keep the reviews pretty brief.