Sentence cards and intensive immersion

[native forum]

First of all, apologies if the following is covered thoroughly somewhere that I haven't found! I tried looking around, but I'm not all that discord-savvy ( ._.)

1: In the roadmap on the refold website, it recommends that you make 'sentence cards' through sentence mining with the full sentence in front and the definition in the back (https://refold.la/simplified/stage-2/a/sentence-mining), yet in most (if not all?) of the workflow guides the default seems to be word and definition in front and sentence (+ sentence audio) at the back. Is the refold website outdated here and the community has figured a new 'best practice'? Or doesn't it matter too much?

2: In a video from Matt he talks about how he has (had?) two different animes, one for intensive immersion and one for free flow. Yet, the website recommends using the same media for both (https://refold.la/simplified/stage-2/a/intensive-immersion) any thoughts/input/experience here?

Thank you so much in advance!

[spice agate]

The way it is presented is kind of weird, like it's conflicting advice. But when it comes down to it, it's personal preference.

Doing vocab cards (vocab word on the front only) and sentence cards (sentence on the front only) both have their advantages and disadvantages so it just comes down to what you want to do personally. For me, I didn't want to choose. So I just did both 😂 My card format is the sentence and vocab word both on the front and then everything else on the back.

For a long time, I had just one anime I was working through. I would have times where I would freeflow it for the most part but also have times where I would concentrate more and do intensive because the scene felt important or interesting. It's really just up to you if you want to have one thing you're working through where you do both or if you want to have separate pieces of content for a certain purpose.

[native forum]

Thank you so much!! That's a really interesting approach with both sentence and word at the front

[spice agate]

Yep! This is an example of one of my cards. The sentence is the big text on top and then the vocab word is the smaller text under it as a hint

[native forum]

Not that related, but I've been super curious about this for weeks now :x

Do you do a "normal" 10-20(+/-) cards a day with sentence mining too? Or do you find yourself limited by how many +1 sentences you can actually find during your mining sessions? ( @spice agate ごめん for ping!)

[spice agate]

I don't try to force an arbitrary number. I just get what I get. You can't really control how many sentences are 1t that day

my new cards per day is set to 7 in anki so

I don't feel a lot of pressure to mine tons of cards either

it's about quality over quantity imo

[native forum]

That makes a lot of sense! I sort of imagined that you'd be limited by the quality of the sentences and that you wouldn't get, say, hundreds of +1 sentences popping up after a few hours of mining the moment you finished the JP1K

[spice agate]

yeah definitely not lol

[native forum]

Again, thank you!!