[xdfgh1112]

I have 15k learned. It's a question of timing. Can time spent making the card outweigh time saved learning it? I would say yes. It's easy to spend too long making a single card. A compromise is to make a small card at first and improve it whenever you fail it.

Personally I need some context in a card to hook it up to other things. Such as the sentence where I first encountered it. Without that I will often fail the card over and over and waste time - it would have been quicker to put some effort upfront making a decent card.

[xdfgh1112]

There is also a meta level investment in your deck that comes from curating it by hand, and that pays off in long term motivation AND improves recall.

I'm sure some people can knuckle down and learn an LLM deck with random words, but they'd be a minority.

[atahanacar]

>improves recall

Citation needed.