I'm following an eclectic strategy where I isolate and separately learn spoken and written Japanese. The process looks a little like this:
1. I start with a deck of Anki vocabularly notes that I want to acquire
2. Study begins with "Speech" Anki cards from these notes (The card front is audio-only, including a clip of the word and a clip of an example sentence. The back has the English definition & a helper image). I only consider a card as being "Good" once I am able to recall & replicate the pitch accent with a steady rythm (I pipe back delayed audio from my microphone while I practice with a metronome running)
3. In parallel, I also do Kanji isolation study using KKLC
4. Each week, I manually enable new "Writing" Anki cards that come from the same set of notes (The writing is on the front. Only the word audio is on the back). I only enable a "Writing" Anki card if I have previously learned BOTH the component Kanji and the spoken word
5. I study my enabled "Writing" Anki cards in parallel with the other two tracks
I like this approach because I effectively have three separate learning tracks that I can switch between -- the variety keeps me motivated. It also helps train your ear to be able to distinguish homophones by pitch and leads you to think of 同訓異字 writings as variations of a spoken word, rather than as true homophones.
Wow, that's indeed a very niche learning strategy. (: I like it though!
I'd definitely like to expand the configurability of jpdb up to a point where you'll actually be able to do something like this in the future. Unfortunately that's not going to be anytime soon, so you're definitely better off with sticking with what you have now. (The most immediate feature that I have planned soon-ish are pure kanji decks; the necessary customizability for the rest will come much later.)
I'm following an eclectic strategy where I isolate and separately learn spoken and written Japanese. The process looks a little like this:
1. I start with a deck of Anki vocabularly notes that I want to acquire
2. Study begins with "Speech" Anki cards from these notes (The card front is audio-only, including a clip of the word and a clip of an example sentence. The back has the English definition & a helper image). I only consider a card as being "Good" once I am able to recall & replicate the pitch accent with a steady rythm (I pipe back delayed audio from my microphone while I practice with a metronome running)
3. In parallel, I also do Kanji isolation study using KKLC
4. Each week, I manually enable new "Writing" Anki cards that come from the same set of notes (The writing is on the front. Only the word audio is on the back). I only enable a "Writing" Anki card if I have previously learned BOTH the component Kanji and the spoken word
5. I study my enabled "Writing" Anki cards in parallel with the other two tracks
I like this approach because I effectively have three separate learning tracks that I can switch between -- the variety keeps me motivated. It also helps train your ear to be able to distinguish homophones by pitch and leads you to think of 同訓異字 writings as variations of a spoken word, rather than as true homophones.