For the most part, dispensing with use of memory flash cards / Anki.

I’ll start by saying what’s good for me is not necessarily the right way to go for others. So I’m not preaching. I’ve spent a lot of time of making and using flashcards – definitely useful for learning kana and my early vocabulary. I may still use them for learning a basic set of common radicals and kanji phonetic markers.
Else, from hereon, my focus will be on reading- Japanese short stories, Japanese posts from Twitter, Mastodon etc. I’ll probably make lists of some words, phrases, grammar data points as I read – not front/back cards.
I write this for one purpose only. I hope anyone equating learning a language and rote memorization will feel free to disassociate the two. Cards are not a natural way to learn a language. In addition- something I saw on a YouTube post and very liberating: forgetting is a part of the learning process. It’s ok to forget.
Have fun. がんばって！