The mining workflow

Goal: meeting a word → card in your deck in under five seconds, without leaving your immersion.

One-click mining (browser reading)

1. In Anki: Tools → Add-ons → Get Add-ons → code 2055492159 (AnkiConnect). Restart Anki.

2. In Yomitan settings → Anki: enable the integration. Yomitan should report “connected” while Anki is running.

3. Map the fields: pick your note type, then assign Yomitan’s markers — {sentence} → Sentence, {expression} → Target, {glossary} → Definition, etc.

4. Read. When a word deserves a card, hover it and hit the green + in the Yomitan popup. Done — the card is in Anki, sentence and all.

Tip

Anki must be running for AnkiConnect to work. If the + icon is grayed out, that’s almost always why.

The manual fallback (video, paper, real life)

Not everything passes through the browser. Keep the friction low:

1. Capture the sentence fast — a note on your phone, a screenshot, a timestamp.
2. Batch-create the cards at day’s end, in one sitting. Don’t interrupt a movie for card-crafting.
3. Rule of thumb: if you can’t reconstruct the sentence’s context tomorrow, don’t mine it — it wasn’t ready.

How much to mine

5–15 cards on an average immersion day. Mining more than you can review is borrowing from a future self who will repay it by quitting. When the backlog grows, mine less — never review more.